A Different Drummer
Saturday, November 21, 2009

Aung San Suu Kyi: Artisan of Social Change

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Finished a new drawing in my series Artisans of Social Change of Aung San Suu Kyi, Nobel Peace Prize recipient (1991). Seeking a new democra...
Thursday, November 19, 2009

Things I Will Probably Never Do Again in This Lifetime

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As I get older sometimes I look back and ponder things that I have done in my life that I will probably never do again. It’s not that there...
Wednesday, November 18, 2009

A Love Once Past: Poem from the early 70's

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Love was once a still blue moment Pasted to my mind like a catalog of iridescent colors But time stole the colors from my eyes and has turne...
Tuesday, November 17, 2009

The death of a forgotten man: a poem from the early 70's

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Flowing forms and figures pass uninterruptedly through the mind of the old bearded man His body has experience, his mind has too He reaches...
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Sunday, November 15, 2009

Early Poems by Leo Hartshorn

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Found these poems from the 80's in a notebook I uncovered in some unpacked boxes today: Food for Thought To deduce a Creator from creati...
Saturday, November 14, 2009

A Taxing Question

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Then the Pharisees went and plotted to entrap him in what he-said. So they sent their disciples to him, along with the Herodians; saying, ...
Thursday, November 12, 2009

In Remembrance of Bat-Jiftah: a reflection on domestic violence

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And Jephthah made a vow to the Lord, and said, "If you will give the Ammonites into my hand, then whoever comes out of the doors of my ...

In honor of Elizabeth Cady Stanton's birthday today

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton (November 12, 1815-October26, 1902)was a key leader of the early women's movements, an abolitionist. Although an ...
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Leo Hartshorn
Portland, OR, United States
I grew up just north of Malibu, California, in Oxnard. I have been a musician and artist since the 60's. I entered Christian ministry in 1973 as a Southern Baptist and became a minister among the Mennonites in 1987 through the influence a baptist theologian friend, Dr. James Wm. McClendon, Jr. I would consider myself more of an neo-Anabaptist than a Mennonite. I have been a Christian minister for 40 years. 10 years in youth and education and 30 years in pastoral ministry in congregations in California, Texas, Pennsylvania, and Oregon. For 7 years I was Minister of Peace and Justice for Mennonite Church USA and staff for the Peace and Justice Support Network. I received my doctorate with a focus on Anabaptist preaching from Lancaster Theological Seminary (See dissertation below)). I currently live in Portland, Oregon. I just completed an interim pastorate of Zion Mennonite Church, Hubbard, Oregon. My sermons at Zion can be heard at: http://zion.or.us.mennonite.net/Home/WorshipServices. I am retired and spend most of my time now doing artwork and playing in a local band, Blues Battalion.
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