Brett Beasley, Alger St. SE

"To refuse to participate in our future is to give it up. Militancy no longer means guns at high noon, if it ever did. It means actively working for change, sometimes in the absence of any surety that change is coming"                                        - Audre Lorde

Kerry Aarnoutse, James Ave

I have two watches that don't keep time, But, I still manage to be on time.

Grey Scheer, Forrest Hill

Best brew pubs: Founders - great beer but not a quiet place; The Hideout - a bit more working class and low key, Schmohz has a bit older clientele - actually it has no atmosphere at all - but it's a good place to talk a study while have a decent craft brew.      

Sarah Clark, James Ave SE

Accents in the Great lakes region are becoming stronger and more distinct as time goes on.

Meat-Eaters have a different odor than vegetarians.

Stephen Clark, Benjamin SE

Madcab Coffee Company located on the NE corner of Justice and Monroe has coffee refills for 75 cents. Only applicable to coffee not "to go".

Stephen Clark, Benjamin SE

On the 26 of April of the year of 2010, I saw a old row boat on the West bank of the Grand River just North of the New Public Museum, tied to the underside of the bridge with the fish painting on it. I don't know how it got there. The time was 1 am.

Ike Kuiper, Ottawa Hill

There are signs read, "Dangerous - High Voltage". But the truth is that high voltage is not dangerous but actually it is the high current of electricity that is dangerous.

Irene Melton, Grand Rapids

The Pine River in Michigan have a lot of lost things in it by people who flipped their canons.

True story of Paula Busbee, Kentwood

"In the year of 1965, you can dial your own pone number on the phone and wait for the busy tone, and between the beeps of the busy tone, you can shout your phone number out; and if someone also calling his or her phone number with the busy tone sounding, they can hear the phone number that you shout out between the beeps. People can write down the number and call that person up for a date. That is how some of the boys and girls meet each other back in the day. That is how i met my husband."

Chelsea Parr, Grand Rapids

Poverty is isolation, and the key to peace building is to cultivates  moral imagination.

Moral imagination is to think outside of your own situation and see yourself having the capacity to dream and the ability to achieve.

Will Ramos, Grand Rapids

There is a huge gay population in China because there is not enough girls due to the One Child Policy. Since in China tradition the man carry heritage so many girl either get aborted or killed or abandoned.

Case Michielsen, North East Side

Keep doing what you feel is right. You will continue to grow as you learn to follow your conscience more and more closely and completely. never stop asking questions. Never stop trying to gain a better understanding of truth.

Joe Louis Dlover, 80th Steet

It is better for a man to listen, Than to speak, for the man who speaks gains less knowledge than the one who listens.

Riobeto Cisneros, West Side

There is a big China Town in Mexico city. The Chinese there are very exclusive and they arrived around 1940's. They keep to themselves and their identity as Chinese still very strong. They are usually able to speak both Chinese and Spanish at the same time. There are no many Africans in Mexico City. 

Tammy Reindle

my truth is Love, Truth and peace!

A testimony by Debra Dieppa, Wyoming

There are voices inside my head that besiege me with chatter and confuse me. often their talk keeps me away from underlying feelings of pain. These voices began in my childhood, after or during incest-related experiences. They blitzed my mind so that I would not have to see clearly or experience the incest so starkly.

I will not have peace of mind unless I let these voices go. I have spent much of my life trying to decipher all that they say, feeling I could gain control by figuring them out. Yet did my figuring get me anywhere beyond the feeling that I was scrambling in a cage? Did I ever find out all I needed to know.

The solution often lies in having the humility to turn elsewhere for an answer. this might means asking for and receiving the guidance of another person or making conscious contact with my higher power. I no longer need to do it all alone.

A poem by Anthony Harrell, Heartside

Birds

High

When your mind

Receives word

it for yo when 

Birds look up

God give them

Warmth and food

National time

is majority

Rule but people

Form families

Nation rule