The Shadows of Revenge
I feel a deep emptiness inside I feel grief over the lives lost, on this day that grief has remained fresh and visceral for over a decade has now subsided I still feel deeply I still honor the innocence lost Now, there is a hollowness that has replaced the revenge that was sought hardening the […]
The Prophet Motive
We pool our resources We list our skills and passions. We ask how to be a good neighbor. How to reach out, educating without alienating. How to find one common cause. How to find our prophet motive. Doing good without compensation. To become whole inside this global nation. Fear can be crippling as we face […]
Eleven from Twenty Seven
Round man stuffed holding his iPad to read. Reading his made in China RSS feed. Sits next to wife reading the paper. Her face covered, no eyes to see. Woman says, it says here China is winning. Man says, not if I have anything to do with it. Woman says, they will be number one […]
A New Tradition
and then there was the vegan Thanksgiving, a new tradition. where people from all over came ready and willing. to share. to learn. to think of the future. to be thankful of the earth and their bodies, while saying the blessing and sharing their lunch. a feast was set out before our eyes. not one animal […]
True Value
I am American.
my family once owned and operated a store.
my dad fought in the Korean War.
The Anti-Patriot
I don’t believe in this country.
I don’t believe in its greed.
I don’t believe in its lack of tolerance.
I don’t believe in Adam and Eve.
Bleached Like Me
I am waiting for you to feed me. I am waiting for you to clean me. I shuffle in my feces like another species. I have been bred to be fat. I mate for you so you can take My children and feed them more. They never know me as they are stolen. Put in […]
Floating on Air
I sleep well at night. Floating on air. All our furniture in storage light. All our love laid bare. An extended family we now live. We did not have on our own. To a new community we now give. Real people instead of voices on the phone. The recession took it all. Our old house […]
Freedom from Want
Holy Spaces
carrying everything on one’s body or sled. traveling lightly on the land one treads. our ancestors hunted and farmed. followed the herds when alarmed. drinking water from pristine streams. thinking of how they could leave. no trace they existed before they came. land was a holy space with no name. two inches of my brain […]
Letter to the Last Generation
Dear Girls, You helped me through life. Through living. When things got hard I would look at you and feel your infectious energy and know that life was worth it. That all the trials and tribulations were for a reason. We have gone through a lot. Health care issues. Unemployment. Relocation. Wars. Global Warming. The […]
Are you here? . . . Say what?
I heard a professor say, once, scolding a student: “Context, context, context.” Noam Chomsky, 1998?
The Red Phone
It came from the sky in the blink of an eye. A flash of light. A conspiracy theorist’s delight. Obama picked up the red phone. Dialed 911 for our friends who are not shown. Who have been watching us forever. Many thought they were not really here. Believers were thought to be crackpots and feared. […]
The Deep State (Foreign Policy 101)
Here is Harry Kreisler with Peter Dale Scott at Berkeley in 2007. This is, admittedly, a long interview, but it is worth watching. Skip the intro; it starts to get interesting at 9:45. And then again at 45:00.
