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This isn't to say that she provided me with no religious instruction. In her mind, a working knowledge of the world's great religions was a necessary part of any well-rounded education. In our household the Bible, the Koran, and the Bhagavad Gita sat on the shelf alongside books of Greek and Norse and African mythology. On Easter or Christmas Day my mother might drag me to church, just as she dragged me to the Buddhist temple, the Chinese New Year celebration, the Shinto shrine, and ancient Hawaiian burial sites. But I was made to understand that such...
...raised in a religious household. My maternal grandparents, who hailed from Kansas, had been steeped in Baptist and Methodist teachings as children, but religious faith never really took root in their hearts. My mother's own experiences as a bookish, sensitive child growing up in small towns in Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas only reinforced this inherited skepticism. Her memories of the Christians who populated her youth were not fond ones. Occasionally, for my benefit, she would recall the sanctimonious preachers who would dismiss three-quarters of the world's people as ignorant heathens doomed to spend the afterlife in eternal...
...long month of abstinence, my upstairs neighbor's kid threw a house party. Car after car unloaded young men with spiky, gelled hair, and young women in tight jeans and spiky heels. The sound system, I believe, must have been imported from an Ibiza nightclub, because no household stereo could produce such volume. Of course by 11 p.m., plainclothes police officers - well, we at least like to assume that the men in street clothes who raid parties and take bribes are actual agents of the law - had arrived and broken up the terrified crowd. But that's not the interesting...
...came across Picasso's work and likewise reunderstood himself. In the 1920s Davis saw the broad, sharp-edged, irregularly shaped planes of color in some of Picasso's later Cubist work and was inspired to break them out at larger scale and combine them with images from billboards and household products--in other words, to produce the first stirrings of Pop Art, nearly four decades before Andy Warhol made eyes at a can of Campbell's soup...
...company that doesn't do that is making a major mistake. If you are inclusive, most of the time you will end up having two supporters in that household, rather than just one, have somebody at home who understands what the issues are and can speak intelligently to their partner about those issues, so you're not just saying, "Yes, dear." The person knows something else, they've met other people--maybe they've met at an event [and] they can say, "I know this person. He or she is not the way you describe them...