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Sore-eyed Watchers: Indigo Kalliope: Poems From the Left
Sore-eyed WatchersOn ground we did not choose we stand with the dusk at our backs. In mire, in hollows, on stony ridges we sing to stars obscured, ancient beams slipping down the air into streams and...
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A Day In A Journey
For months now, I have been more involved with the personal side of my life even though I read the headlines and stories daily, and find that I squirm whenever I become aware of another unnecessary...
View ArticleRemembering my mother
Being in your 80th year does not do good things for your memory. On the other hand you don't have to remember details to be aware of what your mother meant to you and how she helped shape your life.My...
View ArticleA View From the Shore - Mental Illness and School
So I am taking a class. One. Because I can't handle or afford more than that. And I'm having a hard time with it.More below the dooblydoo.
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What's for Dinner? v9.47: Mozart Golden Root Soup
Back in 2010, my friend Giles Goat Boy was trudging around in the snow in Madison, Wisconsin with a sign that said "I thought Cairo would be warmer." I hadn't met him yet, but I saw that sign. It fed...
View ArticleThe Ostrich And the Egg
Believe it or not, everything, about the sexual abuse from my mother, at school, and in the hospital, is all, unfortunately true. I have one of the diaries I kept while in the hospital in 1968. Though...
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What Does Sir Isaac Newton’s Second Law of Motion has to do With Beyoncé?
The English scientist and philosopher, Sir Isaac Newton (1672 - 1727) who formulated the physical laws of motion and gravity must have been thinking about social conflict. His third law of motion,...
View ArticleNot Dead Yet
So, I had a sobering experience a week ago Thursday. You can read about it here. I went in to the hospital on Monday saying I had lots of swelling and I was having trouble breathing. Part of what my...
View ArticleI Suppose...
As I do my daily email, petitions, and read the news, memories of my darling Aileen being with me, but now, not where I can hold her. Not where I can feel her breath on my shoulder. Not where I can...
View ArticleIMO, a propaganda war VS. struggling for justice.
I just read Establishing New Posting Standards On Daily Kosby buhdydharma My opinion is different. I would not highlight politics but WAR and STRUGGLE It is my opinion that movement...
View ArticleFDR
FDR was a Democrat; he had his progressive economic agenda passed because the country was in a progressive reformist mood. It was a mood to reform economics, as all progressive movements are. He did...
View ArticleResistance, Take Five! Don't Forget Self-Care While Undergoing Our Struggle!
Some may say these are among our darkest days. Charlottesville to us is like Kristallnacht to German Jews in 1938, albeit to the optimistic among us, can never go so far downhill from here on(we...
View ArticleThe Struggle Continues
“Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability,but comes through continuous struggle.”– Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.Unlike a lot of people in public life, I didn’t take to social media to...
View ArticleResisting ICE is the principled thing to do
Nine years ago the Southern California Immigration Coalition (SCIC), Brown Berets, Union del Barrio, and others organized a protest against ABC’s racist, ICE-fascist glorifying, Homeland Security USA...
View ArticleStruggling students - a metaphor for America?
There is much of note in the news as I write these words. Perhaps someone will focus on the real concerns being raised by apparent separate venting of methane and possibly petroleum near but not at...
View ArticleTake Courage and Hope: The Struggle is For the Long Haul
Tonight, unable to watch the news, I re-watched the PBS’ 3-Part series (as part of The American Experience), The Abolitionists. The struggle to abolish slavery in this country was one of nearly four...
View ArticleWYFP - The Roof Is On Fire (Happy Hanukah)
So as I’m writing this it is the 5th day of Hanukah (Friday afternoon) and will the the 7th when this finally publishes. I’m writing early so I can try to keep Shabbos this week, and so I don’t have...
View ArticleHuge number of protests against police violence encouraging, but there's a...
Braving the still raging coronavirus and the potential for being tear-gassed and bloodied by unprovoked cops showing their skill with billy-clubs, in cities large and small, hundreds of thousands of...
View ArticleCentral Park Birdwatcher Betrays 500 Years of Black Freedom Struggle
Christian Cooper, the 57-year-old black birdwatcher who filmed white female dog walker Amy Cooper as she tried to sic, not her dog, but the NYPD on him for daring to challenge her refusal to leash the...
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Being A Parent Of An Autistic Son- I used to say WHY GOD But Now I Say THANK...
Almost 20 years ago I was given the greatest gift by God, my son, Christian. He was a cute little peanut. He had a head of dark brown hair like a mop. He was the most beautiful, most perfect thing I...
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