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Serendipity and Relationship: The Dragon’s Fiery Heart

Started by Shana A, November 18, 2008, 09:06:21 PM

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November 18, 2008, 09:06:21 PM Last Edit: April 06, 2009, 09:50:08 AM by Nichole
Serendipity and Relationship: The Dragon's Fiery Heart
Posted November 18, 2008

http://radnichole.wordpress.com/2008/11/18/serendipity-and-relationship-the-dragons-fiery-heart/

I've read, sometimes, the stories of a reporter and columnist at the Memphis Commercial-Appeal named Wendi C. Thomas. Lately I have read the news from Memphis that a sister who had been beaten last Winter by a police officer in a Memphis police precinct-house, had been shot to death on a street corner in Memphis.

Wendi Thomas' humane and human story of Duanna Johnson's mother in the funeral home has, for me, made this a heart-story. Her ability has taken me past the questioning of whether Ms. Johnson was a "classic" transsexual or a "transgender" person. Duanna Johnson was simply a human being who was loved very deeply and is sorely missed by her mother. How can that not touch another? What argument of politics, sexuality, gender, or right and wrong can trump the death of a woman and what comes from that death to another woman, a mother?
"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." Oscar Wilde
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