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"It is not love in the abstract that counts. Men have loved a cause as they have loved a woman. They have loved the brotherhood, the workers, the poor, the oppressed - but they have not loved [humanity]; they have not loved the least of these. They have not loved "personally." It is hard to love. It is the hardest thing in the world, naturally speaking. Have you ever read Tolstoy's Resurrection? He tells of political prisoners in a long prison train, enduring chains and persecution for the love of their brothers, ignoring those same brothers on the long trek to Siberia. It is never the brothers right next to us, but the brothers in the abstract that are easy to love."

- Dorothy Day, "Meditations"
Founder of the Catholic Worker House

They All Went Tumbling After: The Tragic Impact of Untreated Mental Illness


A novel based on a true story



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--Taimi Megivern

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--Raine Megivern

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--Deborah Megivern Foster
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Times are too nice, blindness follows prosperity, and people forget the ploys of fate and of power. That is America today

John Megivern, Sr. 
August 2006
Two Wolves
Unknown Author

One evening an old Cherokee told his grandson about a
battle that goes on inside people.

He said, "My son, the battle is between two
"wolves" inside us all.

One is Evil. It is anger, envy, jealousy, sorrow, regret,
greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false
pride, superiority, and ego.

The other is Good. It is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility,
kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion and faith."

The grandson thought about it for a minute and then asked his grandfather:  "Which wolf wins?"


  The old Cherokee simply replied, "The one you feed."


It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not to deserve them.
  - Mark Twain
The Colbert Report (01/24/07) on Comedy Central, Stephen Colbert on health care:

"Take his proposal to fix that whole health care mess with the only
proven cure all.... tax breaks. It's simple! Most people who can't afford
health insurance also are too poor to owe taxes. But if you give them
a deduction from the taxes they don't owe they can use the money
they're not getting back from what they haven't given to buy the health
care they can't afford."

"IN TIMES OF UNIVERSAL DECEIT, TELLING THE TRUTH WILL BE A REVOLUTIONARY ACT." - George Orwell
"(If) you are going to let the fear of poverty govern your life, your reward will be that you eat, but you have no life."
                         -George Bernard Shaw
There is a new ilk of academics and
scholars.  We are queer, trans, of
color and culture; from the working-
class; we are deaf; tattooed and
pierced up; we teach from wheelchairs or wield canes; we don't change our registers, we don't think we have to; we are the first ones.

We are the academics who embody difference in ways that are very visible.  We upset the academy's investment in sociocultural normativity, whiteness, and class mobility.

We speak truth to power: Our materiality puts people on the edge. We remind our departments that their perception of diversity calls for a safe production of race, gender, sexuality, and culture.  What's the point of these diversity initiatives if they refuse to acknowledge reality: Diversity isn't about some monolithic tokenized person the academy "lets in" on the condition this said person doesn't get too uppity or forget their place.
-R. Burgess, Ohio University 2006
Megivern_Foster_Dissertation.zip
Megivern_Foster_Dissertation.zip
Truth_in_Public_Sector_Pay.pdf
Truth_in_Public_Sector_Pay.pdf