About This Blog
Howdy and thanks for stopping by! I'm weirdly obsessed with individual liberty and feel it's not given enough credit as being a necessary factor for living a truly empowered and fulfilled life.
Whether it's self serving politicians who are constantly trying to make victims out of us, or the negative fixed narratives we impose on ourselves that limit what we can do, we are constantly giving up personal power over to some person or thing which ironically only shrinks our world further.
This blog is about sticking up for freedom and hopefully opening up a deeper conversation on what it's meaning is, how it enhances our own empowerment and why it's so important to protect.
© Tricia Butler, 2014 – 2017
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Category Archives: Political
As My Friend Wally Likes Too Say…
Yep!
Bold Colors Please Mr. President
Ronald Reagan once gave a famous speech urging his fellow Republicans to differentiate themselves from Democrats using “bold colors, not pale pastels”. President Trump would be wise to follow the same strategy as pertains to the alt-right movement and the … Continue reading
Ghosts of the Past
Tucked away in the Southwest corner of France at the mouth of the Bay of Biscay, sits the little town of Capbreton which my mom’s side of the family has been connected with since the 1800’s. The town, once known … Continue reading
Parental Rights
I’m sure by now you’ve heard the name Charlie Gard. He is the infant child of parents Chris Gard and Connie Yates who have been fighting a desperate battle with the British State to prevent their son from being put … Continue reading
Real Change For Real People
“It’s gonna be a journey where we’re gonna pour in to you, but you’re also going to pour in to your kids and you’re going to change the course of your life forever”–Chris Megison, Co-Founder and Executive Director of Solutions … Continue reading
Anti-Anti-Huh?
The news is just dumb. Every day it seems some unimaginably bizarre event pops up that reminds me why I’ve reformed my former media junkie ways and have all but tuned out. It’s like background noise to me now, it … Continue reading
The Limiting World of Stereotypes
Citizen Tom has a thoughtful post up on the unpleasant habit many of us fall in to of denigrating our fellow Americans. There’s a lot of good stuff there, but I particularly liked this: “Why do we want to say … Continue reading
United Nonsense
Photo Credit: unwatch.org Women in Saudi Arabia are required by law to have male legal guardians to make decisions for them on issues like healthcare, marriage and travel. Women … Continue reading
Well Played
Amid all the hoopla of today’s Day Without a Woman, I’d like to focus on an underreported story involving actual injustice and the rebellion of two remarkable women that speak to real empowerment. The first is Dorsa Derakshani, an Iranian Grandmaster … Continue reading
On Strike
A closer peek at the upcoming Women’s Strike and what really lays beneath its cover. Continue reading
