 John Hawkins: Der Untermensch Sonnet We are all fast becoming yooden for the new techno regime. Ze roundups cant be far away. They are already putting out ads looking for bulldozer drivers while everyone laughs and looks the other way. |
 Gary Lindorff: Did you hear the song? Singing back the fire. . . (Excerpts from anti-war songs) Now is the time for your loving,dear / Now the time for your company / Now when the light of reason fails /And fires burn on the sea . . . |
 Ethan Indigo Smith: America's Esoteric Pastime The esoteric aspects of baseball are many, a few of them are explored here as well as a brief outline of its history and origins. |
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Gary Lindorff: A kind of Mothers' Day Poem -- "The Elephant in the tree'
I prayed for Putin and Ukraine and myself./ And got a dream for all my trouble. |
 Gary Lindorff: Happy Mothers' Day -- Remembering Julia Ward Howe The original Mother's Day came about / As a response of women to the horrors of the Civil War / And the Franco-Prussian War |
 Cathy Pagano: Why We Should Celebrate Mother's Day Everyday This Mother's Day, remember that without mom, you wouldn't be here! Maybe we need to remember her everyday. 1  |
 Thomas Farrell: David Brooks Tells President Biden How to Save the Soul of America (REVIEW ESSAY) The self-styled conservative columnist David Brooks tells President Joe Biden how to save the soul of America in his new column "How to Create a Society That Prizes Decency" (dated May 9, 2024) in the New York Times. in brief, the American people need to "recognize one another's full dignity." Ah, the new 2024 Vatican Declaration is also about human dignity. |
 Gary Lindorff: Call to therapists and healers: How to expand your practice -- give it away followed by a reflection If you have been paying attention, /Which I know you have,/You know that people are hurting. |
 Gary Lindorff: Stalking the god of war followed by a reflection on wolves and walkabouts I am looking into the distance and I see the god of war / Limping across the land. |
 John Hawkins: Killers of the Flower Moon: Review #3 I am obsessed with this film; lost in its purgatory. |
 Gary Lindorff: A parable explaining why we have endless war The Heimlich maneuver was not discovered by Henry Heimlich in 1974 as we are told, |
 John Hawkins: May Day (poem) It's a couple of days late but here's to My Day and the celbration of our labors to be free. Gesundheit. |
 Meryl Ann Butler: May the Fourth Be With You: 16th Annual Labyrinth Walk Saturday, May 4th is the 16th annual World Labyrinth Day (WLD) and you are invited to celebrate with thousands of people around the world! |
 Thomas Farrell: Hartmut Rosa on Resonance (REVIEW ESSAY) Prof. Dr. Hartmut Rosa (born in 1965; Ph.D., Humboldt University of Berlin, 1997) is the author of Resonance: A Sociology of Our Relationship to the World, translated by James C. Wagner (Polity, 2019; orig. German ed., 2016). Perhaps Rosa's book Resonance could prompt us to develop a new world-as-resonance sense of life. |
 Bernard Starr: Art Critics and Historians Have Tragically Missed the Meaning of Jesus, Jews, and the Cross in Renaissance Art Although the cross is a devotional Christian object today, in the time of Jesus it was a hated and feared symbol. It stood for persecution, torture, and death. Why then do we see countless Renaissance paintings of Jesus his family and followers affectionately displaying a cross. Moreover, why have art world professionals ignored this fabrication for centuries--and still today? 1 |
 John Hawkins: Book Review: Knife by Salman Rushdie I review Salman Rushdie's newly released memoir, Knife. |
 Philip Kraske: Who Has Whose Back? It's Complicated. "I've got your back," says A to B. Why? Did A steal it? I try to throw some light on this tricky phrase. |
Thomas Farrell: Rabbi Shai Held on the Heart of Jewish Life (REVIEW ESSAY)
Rabbi Shai Held (born in 1971; ordination, Jewish Theological Seminary, 1999; Ph.D., Harvard University, 2010) has published a massively researched new 2024 book titled Judaism Is About Love: Recovering the Heart of Jewish Life (Farrar, Straus and Giroux). It is a tour de force in biblical interpretation. |
 Thomas Farrell: Pope Francis on a Good Catholic Life (REVIEW ESSAY) The aging, and ailing, Pope Francis, (born in 1936; elected pope in March 2013), the first Jesuit spiritual director ever elected pope, has written an accessible new book addressed to young Catholics, A Good Life: 15 Essential Habits for Living with Hope and Joy, translated from the Italian by Oonagh Stransky (Worthy Publishing/ Hachette Publishing Group, 2024). Certain things the pope says in it could help us today. |
 John Hawkins: A Reactionary Sonnet for ANZAC Day 2024 A sonnet to celebrate the heritage of a freedom-loving people on their special day marking remembrance of overseas fights for freedom freedom freedom, and domestic conservatism. |
Gary Lindorff: For the ant that drowned followed by a reflection on empathy
When I went to finish the last few Brussel sprouts / I saw the ant struggling 3 |
 Thomas Farrell: Austen Ivereigh on Pope Francis' Thought (REVIEW ESSAY) The lay Catholic English journalist Dr. Austen Ivereigh (born in 1966) perceptively weaves together multiple strands of Pope Francis' thought in his new 2024 book First Belong to God: On Retreat with Pope Francis (Loyola Press). |
 Gary Lindorff: Wildfires in the brain -- A sonnet followed by: How I started writing sonnets late in life This would be horrifying if it happened to me,/(Also quite upsetting if it only happened to you), 1 |
 John Hawkins: The Earth Day Sonnet (for Taylor Swift) It's Earth Day. I feel so in ove with the world again. I had a lover's quarrel going, like Robert Frost said. But now we're good again. I love you Earth. |
 Gary Lindorff: How to travel light (with Einstein's blessing) followed by footnote Then you clear your mind / And focus on what may come./ Then you let go |
 Thomas Farrell: The Editors of Commonweal on the Vatican's New 2024 Declaration (REVIEW ESSAY) The Editors of the liberal lay Catholic magazine Commonweal published "Dignity and Gender: Evaluating 'Dignitas Infinita'" on April 18, 2024. In the present essay, I continue my recent reflections in my OEN articles on the Vatican's new 2024 Declaration of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith titled "Dignitas Infiniti," which was released on April 8, 2024. |
 Gary Lindorff: When they land Will we be around / To greet our saviors from a distant star / To witness the passing of the torch / To a larger brain? |
 Irene Fowler: Nuclear Arms Bros "I believe that there is a greater power in the world than the evil power of military force or nuclear bombs." Linus Pauling |
 John Hawkins: Sonnet: White Noise Puppets and Their Puppeteers A lamentation for our ungorgeous but devasating times. Got solutions? Hey, don't tell me, I'm just a singer in a rock and roll band. |
 Mike Rivage-Seul: In Defense of Higher Education: How To Address Genocidal Congress-members It was embarrassing to see University of Colombia President Minouche Shafik grovel before congress-members who evidently know nothing about higher education. 31 |
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