Toward a World that Works for Everyone
October 12, 2021 If I should have that bravery of gaining love I would hold this hand out, level, warm, for the buffeted snowbound little birds to come and feed for all the years unharmed, if I should have that bravery of love. ~William Stafford, The Bravery of Love It’s quite easy to be […]
October 10, 2021 I sing the body electric… The thin red jellies within you or within me, the bones and the marrow in the bones, The exquisite realization of health; O I say these are not the parts and poems of the body only, but of the soul, O I say now these are the […]
October 7, 2021 The buds are still waiting—unbloomed though long past time— It is long past time— It is long past time. ~Erle Howry, Time It’s October 7. I am still waiting. Things are supposed to be happening. NOW. The elastic property of time renders this lack of events extraordinarily frustrating for me. We’re […]
October 5, 2021 The American common is no collective or princedom but privacies of need & pleasure as they intersect in public spaces, tho the insufferable powers that be breed their plots behind our backs, thinking us witless… ~David Rivard, Common I recently stumbled upon an oasis of sanity in the midst of masking […]
October 4, 2021 By email ~ Dr. Peebles through Natalie Gianelli ~ NatalieGianelli.com A note from Natalie… Greetings Beautiful Souls, For more than a year, we have been on some version of lock-down. Our dreams and plans were seemingly consigned to the back burner. It was a time-out that gave us an opportunity to feel […]
October 3, 2021 When despair grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. I come into the […]
October 1, 2021 …Oh nothing holds. Just the rattling of the going and coming together of things, as if matter itself is trying to find something true to say—crazed investigation, tentative prophecy… Is this the last war now, finally… ~Jorie Graham, Scarcely There I have a confession to make. I kind of overstocked the […]
September 26, 2021 Fairy tales are full of impossible tasks… You have to fight magic with magic. You have to believe That you have something impossible up your sleeve, The language of snakes, perhaps, an invisible cloak… The will to do whatever must be done… ~A.E. Stallings, Fairy-tale Logic It’s amazing how stating my […]
September 23, 2021 It’s like so many other things in life to which you must say no or yes… And sometimes you sense how faithfully your life is delivered, even though you can’t read the address. ~Thomas R. Smith, Trust What a weird tightrope we are all walking these days. Unless it’s just me, […]
September 22, 2021 Sweet is it, sweet is it To sleep in the coolness Of snug unawareness. ~Gwendolyn Brooks, Truth If I were a “normie,” and not ready for someone else’s version of truth, what would I do when confronted with certain unpalatable facts? If, however, I were even a smidge open to hearing […]
September 20, 2021 …Let the stars appear and the moon disclose her silver horn… Let it come, as it will, and don’t be afraid. God does not leave us comfortless, so let evening come. ~Jane Kenyon, Let Evening Come Every time I think I’m at a saturation point, I go back and dip my […]
September 17, 2021 Who is it who says the closer you are to an irreversible apocalypse the more fragile language is? We slid the dictionaries from the shelves and opened them to apocalypse, the word on everyone’s lips. ~Catherine Barnett, Amor Fati If I were writing a story about the post-apocalyptic world of some […]
September 15, 2021 Tell me a story. In this century, and moment, of mania, Tell me a story. Make it a story of great distances, and starlight… Tell me a story of deep delight. ~Robert Penn Warren, Tell Me a Story The story is waiting, but it won’t wait forever. I don’t have the […]
September 11, 2021 Via email ~ Dr. Peebles through Natalie Gianelli, nataliegianelli.com Note from Natalie: A poem by Rudyard Kipling talks about keeping your head when all about you are losing theirs. These days it can seem like the world is crumbling and it can feel hard to keep your head on straight. In the […]
I’ve lived in California my entire life, and I’m now painfully aware that my vote for governor (or in this case, to recall the governor and install a new one) may not count…at all. I find it telling, and not surprising, that the California Secretary of State did not bother to respond to The Epoch Times’ request for comment on this article. When I […]
