Toward a World that Works for Everyone
October 27, 2021 Oh, I got plenty o’ nuttin’ And nuttin’s plenty for me… ‘Cause de things dat I prize Like de stars in de skies All are free… ~George Gershwin, I Got Plenty o’ Nuttin’ (from Porgy and Bess) There are so many things to write about! Why doesn’t one of them visit […]
October 25, 2021 The wind came down from mountains cold, and like a tide it roared and rolled; the branches groaned, the forest moaned, and leaves were laid upon the mould. ~J.R.R. Tolkien, “The wind was on the withered heath” (from The Hobbit) I don’t much like this rain. Which is a silly thing […]
October 23, 2021 There is a wall of which the stones Are lies and bribes and dead men’s bones. But I will gather and I will ride, And I will summon a countryside… And many a man shall ride with me Who never had thought on earth to see High Justice in her armoury. ~Hilaire […]
October 22, 2021 The shrinks Praise letting go, but can we truly love What never is possessed, what never showed The least wish to be had and to be owned? This is not possessing, it possesses too… ~Robert Richman, Possession Things seem to be bubbling and brewing. Rumblings of war, commentators warning of big […]
October 20, 2021 For forty years she saved it all: The daily paper, bottles, trash… To her a priceless private cache… The miser’s mania, on hoarding, drunk. ~J. Randal Matheny, Hoarding I’m really uncomfortable with overabundance. Probably not the best state of mind from which to welcome an abundant and golden new age. Although […]
October 19, 2021 Shall not the soul’s most measureless desires Learn that the very flower and fruit of life Lies all attained in comfortable homes… Are we not homes? And is not all therein? ~Charlotte Anna Perkins Gilman, Home All of us have the basic right to live in a clean, well-lighted place. Of […]
October 17, 2021 …Beginnings and endings are clear, but middles, that murk where significance often lurks, are tricky, and joy, which ought to be easy enough to recognize, defies the fastest tripping shutter or eyelash flutter… ~David R. Slavitt, Repetition My impatience keeps bumping to the surface. The sameness of days becomes less tolerable […]
October 15, 2021 There is a moment before a shape hardens, a color sets… Yet something slips through it— looks around, sets out in the new direction, for other lands. Not into exile, not into hope. Simply changed… it cannot be after turned back from. ~Jane Hirshfield, The Decision I can’t figure out if […]
October 14, 2021 “Hope” is the thing with feathers – That perches in the soul – And sings the tune without the words – And never stops – at all… I’ve heard it in the chillest land – And on the strangest Sea – Yet – never – in Extremity, It asked a crumb – […]
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 […]
