Never Say “Never Again” Unless We Mean It
. . . because to do so would be meaningless. And perhaps it’s meaningless already. I wrote a post with …
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Happy Earth Day! May She Live Forever.
The spark for the first Earth Day was the 1962 publication of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring. A marine biologist and …
Never Say “Never Again” Again, Unless We stop It This Time, Now
If we say “never again” while doing nothing to stop the atrocities going on in Ukraine, then we are lying …
This Sea Within, Without – A Poem
I wrote this poem for a novel I’m writing about love and war in Central America. It’s written in the …
Truth-Telling in Poetry and Art: The Horrors of War and Human Complacency
I read a brilliant piece in The New York Times this morning about how suffering hides in plain sight. The …
Blue & Gold: The Colors of Democracy in Ukraine’s Fight for Freedom
Blue and gold are my favorite colors, so much so I created a Pinterest page named Blue & Gold to …
“Isn’t It a Pity,” A Fitting Duet for MLK Day
If you’ve never heard Nina Simone’s version of George Harrison’s song “Isn’t it a Pity,” I can’t think of a …
You Don’t Have to Love Them, Just Love
A man lamented to an Elder in his Church that try as he might, he could not love his hyper-critical, …
A Young Poet and Rapper Throw Light on the State of Our Union
“A Return to Joy!” That’s what I was going to blog about today after watching the horror of the January …
“The Fierce Urgency of Now”: Dismantling the Big Lie, Bridging the Big Divides
Like so many Americans, I’ve been struggling these past twelve days to wrap my mind around what happened on January …
