The other day in a gas station, I experienced an uncomfortably familiar deflation of hope and happiness upon reading the array of headlines at the newspaper stand. As is often the current events case, the distressing sense of the surreal was second only to the distressing sense that this is all starting to meet expectations,…
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therapy
After a difficult few hours of rouge, ranging, generalized imprisonment in a grief-struck realm, the floating dread verging on panic that can so readily descend upon the psyche in 2017 found some relief by grace of small talk with elders. A frequent occurrence. So I wrote a poem: Store Late in the morning yesterday,…
company
The daily rotations of location may place us in the immediate vicinity of home, walking within a ten block radius, parking at a workplace, or traveled to farther reaches. No matter where we find ourselves, the people also present are the only ones who are. That to me is a singularly powerful fact with profound…
prescriptively
This earth does not negotiate. But she can nourish and heal. All the living gather; decide to survive. The moral/political task at hand: •Merge the imperative of addressing climate change with the need to generate reliable, meaningful work for the 99% . To do list for all concerned: •Advance an inspirational yet practical vision of…