Toward a World that Works for Everyone
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 […]
September 10, 2021 The thousand hairline cracks in an aged face match the hairline cracks in an aged cup and come from similar insults… Yet happiness might crack a face open in a better way: hairline tracery as laugh lines releasing the joys of ancient thoughts cupped into use, and suddenly able. ~Molly Peacock, A […]
September 8, 2021 At dawn, behold! the pall of night was gone… The sun rose smiling o’er the river’s breast, And my soul, by his happy spirit blest, Soared like a bird to greet him in the sky, And drew out of his heart Eternity. ~Claude McKay, Morning Joy One of my cats seems […]
September 3, 2021 Stone by stone I pile this cairn of my intention… exposed and vulnerable across the slanting fields which I love but cannot save from floods which are to come… A mark of resistance, a sign. ~Adrienne Rich, A Mark of Resistance Putting aside the big issues for the moment, what I truly […]
September 1, 2021 We like to think of it as parallel to what we know, Only bigger… Some like to imagine A cosmic mother watching through a spray of stars, Mouthing yes, yes as we toddle toward the light, Biting her lip if we teeter at some ledge. ~Tracy K. Smith, My God, It’s Full […]
August 28, 2021 “Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.” ~Victor Hugo It’s funny how a foggy day and a wretched headline can plunge a person into despair. At least, it can plunge me into despair. The fog wasn’t a complete surprise. Before I even got out of bed, I felt […]
August 27, 2021 I am the only one here. I stand in my one place and I can see a good piece down the road… Don’t come through my door and want to run my house. I am the angel who sweep air in and out my own dancing body. I got good eyes. I […]
