This is a place for important creative and critical works that question the status quo. Academic journals and media tend to serve as gatekeepers, enforcing standards that limit works to those that reflect “the ways things have always been done,” thereby screening out creative works (prose, poetry, art and pieces that interweave different media). The intention for creating this blog is to encourage dialogue about possibilities and support for alternate ways of communicating that celebrate the inclusiveness of diversity.
Dear Carol,
I’m posting here (delete this post if it’s not the place, please!) the link to a project I started thinking of you! 🙂 I mention it on “Herstory”.
http://www.talkingpeople.net/learnspanish/
I’m not sure it will help you or anyone to learn Spanish, because I’m doing just what I feel like and using rudimentary tools, like vocaroo and no editing of the audios!, because I’m so full of work all the time and I need to do it all very fast. But when I do it, it’s kind of taking a break from obligations! It’s fun!
Feel free to give me any feedback that can help me improve, if you find the time to use it, of course! Don’t feel obliged! I’m entertained! 😀
A sister hug from Spain!
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Dear Michelle, It’s always a pleasure to hear from you, no matter where you choose to post! I was just thinking of you this morning, wondering how you were doing, and feeling a little guilty for not listening to the audios you have already sent. But I did realize it is something I want to do 🙂 and I will make time. (I follow several bloggers in Spain, so I do have a reason to spend time learning.)
I will give you feedback soon on the audio resources. (Did I ever tell you I tried to learn Spanish by myself when I first started reading? Obviously, it didn’t work.)
I also need to tell you that your posts to your students make me laugh — you’re so much better at holding them accountable that am I — and in a gentle, funny way! And a big hug to you, dear sister!
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😀 😀 😀 (Blushed face!) 😀 I’m so glad to know! Thanks! ❤
I do have a very strong character, and certain topics make me rant and rave!!! But it's true — how could you get it so well! — I never want to hurt, just explain, and humor is such a resource! 😀
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Love your blog! Thanks for following ours….
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Thank you, Sharon. I appreciate your kind words and look forward to learning more about the groundbreaking journey you and Robin describe on your blog.
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Thank you for stopping by and following Storyteller. — Ray
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Thank you for your comment, Ray. I look forward to following your blog.
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Thank you for following my blog! happy that you like it:) what an interesting blog you have! for sure will be back here 🙂
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Thank you for visiting, Magdalena, and for your kind words.
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Hi Carol! I lost my blog yesterday and decided it was a good time to start a new one, but I have to start over. Hope you’ll re-follow so we can stay in touch 🙂
Mandy http://healingbeyondsurvival.wordpress.com/
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Thank you for letting me know, Mandy. I will follow your new blog right now! 🙂
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Thank you Carol!
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I love these words… voices of resistance from the margins.” I think my little notes are there. 🙂 Thanks for visiting me so I could find my way here.
Laurie
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Thank you, Laurie. We appreciate your thoughtful comments and your visit and look forward to following your lovely work.
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Hello, Carol,
First of all, thank you for following my blog, writewireless. I finally stumbled on your blog after many months, and I want you to know that I feel honored that you have chosen to follow mine! I loved your essay “Worlds Apart” on cultural competence and native peoples, and I went on to read a few other posts.You are an amazing teacher in every sense of the word, and your very articulate writing is infused with soul and deep wisdom. Know that the work you are doing through your blog is not, as the blog title might indicate, “marginal” at all–it affects people’s consciousness in a very profound way. Please keep it up!
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Thank you, Anne. I appreciate your kind words a great deal. I enjoy the variety of topics you cover on your blog, including the fascinating historical essay on the mission at St. Luis Obispo. I look forward to your future posts and lovely photos 🙂
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May be that our very future on the earth depends on diversity + communication + empathy. Thanks for following WordVerseUniverse; I look forward to reading your blog.
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Thank you for sharing important insights about the importance of embracing diversity, Christine. I look forward to learning more from you and your lovely blog.
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Nice to meet you, Carol. Thanks for stopping by my blog and for the follow. I look forward to reading your blog. 🙂
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Thank you, Victoria 🙂 . I look forward to reading more about your creative work.
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Hello Carol,
Thank you so much for following my blog. I appreciate the very important message that yours represents as well and I look forward to learning more through your writings.
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Thank you for your kind words, Joan. I look forward to learning from you, as well 🙂
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I have nominated this blog for the One Lovely Blog Award. If you wish to participate, check out the instructions here: http://betzceerambles.com/2014/10/06/its-an-honour-to-be-nominated-the-one-lovely-blog-award/
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Thank you for your kindness Keane. My blog partner and I appreciate your recognition a great deal.
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I am always fascinated with culture and relationship of people with each other and with their environment, that’s why I am also a keen student of social psychology that’s why I like reading your posts here (and thank you for reading mine as well). I like coming in and out here to read on and always I get new information that I really enjoyed knowing.
I nominated you for the One Lovely Blog Award http://mydecadelongtravels.wordpress.com/2014/10/12/first-nomination-one-lovely-blog-award/ and I hope you will accept and pass along to others in your network.
Keep on writing. Cheers.
D
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My blog partner, Cheryl ,and I are honored by your nomination, D, and we’re grateful that you are part of our blogging community. Thank you for being so kind and thoughtful 🙂
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Hello, Carol! I’ve nominated your blog for the ‘Real Neat Blog Award.’ You can learn more about it here: http://wp.me/p3XGQ4-160
Feel free to participate, or not. If you have the time, pass the award on by nominating other worthy blogs.
Meanwhile: ‘Congratulations! You’ve got a Real Neat Blog!’
JoAnn
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JoAnn, Thank you so much for the honor. Coming from someone who continues to blog about timely and important issues, your nomination is especially meaningful. I appreciate your support and kindness 🙂
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Thanks for following my blog. Much appreciated.
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I look forward to reading your thoughtful and intriguing posts!
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I’ve nominated you for Versatile Blogger.
As always, you are under no obligation to accept or acknowledge this nomination. My hope is that sharing these awards will help new readers find you – as they have for me.
https://timeformythoughts.wordpress.com/2015/01/21/versatile-blogger-award/
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Dear Carol, thank you for your kindness. ❤
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you’re very welcome 🙂
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I’ve also nominated you for the Sisterhood of the World Blogger Award.
I enjoy your blog, and I hope others do as well. 🙂
https://timeformythoughts.wordpress.com/2015/01/21/sisterhood-of-the-world-bloggers-award/
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I appreciate your kind words and thoughtfulness a great deal, Carol. Thank you for honoring Voice from the Margins with this nomination.
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You’re welcome, Carol.
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Caroll, You honor me by dropping by Sanchismos and liking it. Many thanks! -Ron
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Thank you for your kind comment, Ron. I enjoyed your recent post on Deconstructing Myths, and I’m glad I found your blog!
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Congratulations, Carol!
I have nominated your blog for the Real Neat Blog Award.
More about this nomination is at
https://dearkitty1.wordpress.com/2015/04/21/real-neat-blog-award-congratulations-everyone/
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Dear Kitty, I so appreciate your thoughtful nomination and the wonderful award you created. Thank you 🙂
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Dear Carol, well deserved 🙂 Keep blogging!
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Pleased to meet you.
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Thank you for your comment, GP. I appreciate your thoughtfulness and visit 🙂
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I’ve nominated your blog for the Premio Dardas Award. You can read instructions at https://blackbutterfly7.wordpress.com/2015/06/07/premio-dardas-award/
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Dear Xena, I am deeply honored by your nomination. Thank you 🙂
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Hi Carol, I’ve nominated you for the Liebster Award – feel free to disregard if you want to avoid the hassle of awards.
https://timeformythoughts.wordpress.com/2015/06/21/liebster-award-redux/
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Thank you so much for your thoughtfulness, Carol.
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Love your blog, Carol
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I appreciate your kindness, Carol 🙂
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Hi Carol. Thanks so much for featuring my post “A Few Seconds” in your Interesting Posts sidebar. I also have some recent posts up on the Supreme Court’s decision for Marriage Equality and the mass shooting in Charleston, S.C. that you might be interested in. I am so glad you are blogging; there are not a lot of blogs out there featuring creative social protest and thoughtful ways that we might be able to improve others’ lives.
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Thank you for your lovely comments, Hannah. Your post about the Charleston shooting is important and thought-provoking – thank you for letting me know about it. I look forward to reading more of you work.
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Thank you! I look forward to reading more of yours as well.
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There are actually two posts. “In Memoriam,” and “Discrimination and Faith.” I’d be interested in your thoughts.
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Thank you so much for visiting my blog and for the like. 🙂
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Thank you for commenting, Amitav. I’m grateful I found your blog and your thoughtful posts. I look forward to reading more in the future.
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Thank you so much, Carol.
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Greetings Carol and a good weekend
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Thank you for your lovely greeting, Makagutu. I wish you a wonderful weekend, also 🙂
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What a wonderful place you have here, warm, inviting. You speak a message of truth. Looking forward to following and connecting. Jessie
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Thank you for such kind and lovely comments, Jessie.
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You’ve been nominated for the Blogger Recognition Award. You can read about it at the following link.
https://blackbutterfly7.wordpress.com/2016/04/23/blogger-recognition-award/
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Thank you so much for your kindness, Xena. ❤
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I am eager to read and learn from others to stretch my mind. An introvert that loves to read white spaces and think about it. Will be hanging out here for awhile if you don’t mind. Thank you for the nuggets.
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Again, thank you for your kind and thoughtful comments. ❤
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I liked your blog, I invite you to my blog:
http://dishdessert.wordpress.com
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Thank you for your kind words, Khadija. I look forward to learning more about your work. 🙂
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Always welcome
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Yeah, I can dig that. I’ve just found your blog and it’s already one of my favorites.
Thank you for checking out my blog. I use it to educate, rant, expose the world to my strange low-tech mix and ruminate. I believe you might like this: https://ashiftinconsciousness.wordpress.com/2016/07/18/the-room/
I hope I’m not being pushy or presumptuous. Thank you. You’re a beautiful person.
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Thank you for your kind words, and for sharing a link to a fascinating post.
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Thank you for taking the time to visit http://www.rivenrod.com. Much appreciated.
I am fascinated by the marvels our tiny planets offers, as well as the glorious and outrageous antics its inhabitants get up to, so you can be sure I’ll catch up with what you’re doing as often as I can.
I look forward to our next encounter.
RR
Psssst. My latest novel, Swell, click here for reviews http://wp.me/PXk9K-259
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Thank you for your visit, RR. You have a fascinating blog. 🙂
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Thank you for taking the time to visit http://www.rivenrod.com. Much appreciated.
I look forward to our next encounter.
RR
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Best wishes, RR. 🙂
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Carol, I have nominated you for the ‘Three Quotes for Three Days’ challenge.
The rules of the challenge are:
1. Three quotes for three days.
2. Three nominees each day (no repetition).
3. Thank the person who nominated you.
4. Inform the nominees.
And it doesn’t have to be three successive days.
Rosaliene
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Thank you for this honor, Rosaliene. It may take a day or two for me to figure out how to follow your fascinating post about Guyanese poet Martin Carter. 🙂
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Hi Carol – just popped by to say thanks for the likes! And I’m liking what I find here, too.
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Thank you for the visit, Frank, and for your lovely comments. I’m grateful I found your site. You are a gifted storyteller who can weave a powerful poignant memoir from a simple prompt – “it throbbed and vibrated!”
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Hi Carol,
Thank you for liking one of my posts. It has been a while since I last commented on your blog. If you have been wondering about or noticing the scant presence of SoundEagle, then please kindly be informed that I have been away from the blogosphere for a long time until quite recently, as a result of having to deal with the daily demands of filial piety and caring duties, as explicated in the post lovingly crafted and published as a special eulogy entitled “Khai & Khim: For Always and Beyond Goodbye”, published at https://soundeagle.wordpress.com/2019/08/31/khai-khim-for-always-and-beyond-goodbye/
I look forward to your comment and feedback at the said eulogy. Please take your time to read it as it is very involved and multidisciplinary. Moreover, this multimedia eulogy is very extensive and will require some time to load. It is best viewed on the large screen of a desktop or laptop. By the way, there are several of my musical compositions and arrangements that you can savour in the eulogy there.
May you find this autumn very much to your liking and highly conducive to your writing, thinking and questioning as well as your “alternate ways of communicating that celebrate the inclusiveness of diversity”!
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Just an FYI: I’ve had to “like” your posts in bunches due to an inability to do it with my iPad. I can access all sites but can’t like or comment on most. Strange.
Have a beautiful day.
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Thank you for your kind words, A Shift in Consciousness. Sending my best wishes to you. 💜
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Inclusiveness and diversity: two concepts that are so positive and hopeful.
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Thank you so much for your thoughtful comment, Stacey. 💜
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What a wonderful idea to have this space for creative endeavors rather then in academia where “this is the way things have always been done” reigns. Kudos!
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Thank you so much for your thoughtful comments, Mary Ann. I have learned a lot about communicating in the process. 🙂
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Carol, once again I love your comment and learning. I too have learned from the writing/blogging process and enjoy exchanging with people from around the world as I did in the classroom. Learning about other countries, cultures, languages and peoples has made me a more tolerant individual in the process. Blogging allows me to share a wealth of storytelling to others. Thank you once again for your comments. Happy blogging to you! “”__””
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Such thoughtful, lovely comments, Mary Ann. Thank you! Sending my best wishes. 💜
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Carol, I am glad you enjoyed the comments. It is gratifying to communicate with others around the world on the blog. We are all connected! “”__””
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merhaba.
çok teşekkürler takip için. sizi inceleyeceğim. güzel bir görüş. değerli.
kutluyorum. başarılar diliyorum. sizinleyiz…
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Thank you so much for your thoughtful comments, Ziznase. 💜
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