Toward a World that Works for Everyone
February 26, 2021 I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. I feel my fate in what I cannot fear. I learn by going where I have to go. ~ Theodore Roethke, The Waking I’m very fond of the notion that we already know everything. That we can just open up some […]
February 25, 2021 My life is like a frozen thing, No bud nor greenness can I see: Yet rise it shall—the sap of Spring… ~Christina Rossetti I have an Armageddon closet, and no, it isn’t filled with guns. It has five-pound bags of flour, canned beans, soup. Salsa, canned fruit, bags of lentils, oatmeal and […]
February 24, 2021 For it is important that awake people be awake, or a breaking line may discourage them back to sleep; the signals we give — yes or no, or maybe — should be clear: the darkness around us is deep. ~ William E. Stafford In my view, the only real upside to our enforced […]
February 22, 2021 If pain for peace prepares…~Emily Dickinson In my opinion, I shouldn’t have pain. Or at least, I shouldn’t have pain anymore. I’m speaking of physical pain. The ouch kind. As in, take a step, OUCH. Repeat repeat repeat. That walking pain gets old after a month, a year, several years. I can’t […]
February 20, 2021 Once upon a time, when the world was awash in common sense, courage, and camaraderie, there was pleasure to be had in the ordinary interactions of our lives. A routine trip to Costco could bring joy. “Oh, look! It’s nearly Spring, there are mystery-color iris bulbs in bulk. There are early Easter […]
February 19, 2021 Oh, the minefields we tread these days. I’m fresh back from a prickly coffee date with a very old friend, someone I’ve known nearly half my 60-something life. It actually wasn’t prickly until he brought up the V word. I had determined beforehand that I would not breathe a word about V, […]
Bill Gates and Neo-Feudalism: A Closer Look at Farmer Bill Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., February 18, 2021, The Defender (https://tinyurl.com/1j3th95g) Bill Gates has quietly made himself the largest owner of farmland in the United States. For a man obsessed with monopoly control, the opportunity to also dominate food production must seem irresistible. “Gates has a […]
February 14, 2021 I’ve never considered myself particularly to be a Patriot. Sure, singing the Star-Spangled Banner or God Bless America can bring a tear to my eye and a lump to my throat. But a Patriot with a capital P? Not on my radar. Until now. The other day I was thinking the usual […]
