Bob Gaydos: Celebrating the holidays in recovery "No thank you" is a complete sentence and perfectly acceptable answer. It should not require any further explanation. "One drink won't hurt you" is a dangerously ill-informed reply. The same goes for, "A few butter cookies won't hurt. C'mon, it's Christmas." Or, "Get the dress, Put it on your credit card. You'll feel better." Not really. |
Irene Fowler: La Vie en Purple "I think 'The Color Purple' is so bursting with love, the need for connection, the showing of the need for connection around the globe." - Alice Walker | |
Frosty Wooldridge: Margaritaville & I Left My Heart in San Francisco
We celebrate the entertainers' past and present that keep Americans enthralled with their talents, energy and excitement. 1 |
Arshad M Khan: A Favorite Poem
Do not go gentle into that good night is a famous Dylan Thomas poem. Please bear with me if you are much too familiar with it. |
Philip Kraske: Summer Flicks: America at its Barest Oppenheimer, Barbie and Mission Impossible: they bare the American soul. |
Irene Fowler: The Sun Came Out To Play Even for me life had its gleams of sunshine." - Charlotte Brontë from Jane Eyre. 2 |
Andy Mccoy: About the Variety in the Designs of Earring Jewelry
There are different kinds of jewelry. There are hand jewelry, necklaces, rings, and earring jewelry. Sometimes they come in a complete set with a pair of cartilage earrings, a necklace, a ring and a bracelet. An anklet may also be added, along with a brooch. The history of the evolution of jewelry is one that is complicated and ever changing. |
Ethan Indigo Smith: The Fourth Initiation of The Jesus Christ Story The esoteric inspiration within the resurrection idea and its occurrence during the Winter Solstice, and the exoteric replacement. |
BK Faunce: Silly Film Olympics: Knock Knock and Funny Games An analysis of two "home invasion" films, Knock Knock and Funny Games. 1 |
Dwayne Hunn: Marlenes obituary around Thanksgiving An obituary on the life and courageous times of Marlene Hunn. 1 |
Blair Gelbond: Transcending Paradigms Pt. 10: Primitive Humans > The Trauma of Modern Society > Global Citizens "If the world is to be healed through human efforts, I am convinced it will be by ordinary people, people whose love for this life is even greater than their fear. "People who can open to the web of life that called us into being." Joanna Macy 94 |
Kevin Tully: AI: The Writer Dies Artificial Intelligence soon at a bookstore, art gallery, poetry reading, photography exhibit, war zone and furniture store near you. |
David Rothman: 'After the Ivory Tower Falls': A Book Review Will Bunch, the Pulitzer-winning Philadelphia Inquirer columnist, has written a thoughtful AND lively book called After the Ivory Tower Falls. He tells how colleges have exacerbated cultural and economic differences. Grandson of the founder of a small college closed after enrollment declines, Bunch fervently hopes that policymakers will understand the importance of college and vocational training as public goods. |
Kevin Tully: A Thought About Story Anthropologists must be chuckling and shaking their heads, if not wringing their hands. There was a singular, very important component of the rise of civilizations -- story. Without it they would have stayed just a bunch of loosely connected hunters and gatherers, individually avoiding catastrophe, trotting into oblivion. 19 |
Kevin Tully: The Groovelarians Contemplate Their Choices "The Groovelarians hovered above the cooking, burning, screaming planet..." |
Bob Gaydos: Teens, food, eating ... addiction? It's not just drugs and alcohol. One in 10 female teens may have an eating disorder. A smaller percentage of teen boys, perhaps athletes such as wrestlers or runners, also have issues that revolve around body weight and image. |
Chris Coggon: So long, Ronnie Hawkins Ronnie Hawkins, icon of Rock, is dead. Original photo and poem tribute. 2 |
Monish Chatterjee: To Mahatma-ji (Tribute poem by Sukanta Bhattacharya, early 1940s, to Mahatma Gandhi) Recalling a significant tribute poem written by Bengali poet-prodigy Sukanta Bhattacharya (1926-47) in honor of Mahatma Gandhi in the early 1940s, identifying him as the galvanizing figure central to the Indian freedom movement against 200 years of British imperial occupation of the sub-continent. Sukanta was a powerful leftist/progressive voice who had written momentous poems in a life taken much too soon, in 1947 at age 21. 8 |
Kevin Tully: The Ghost of Taras Bulba "They all left. She resisted. Her grandchildren tugged at her beautifully embroidered apron. She resisted..." 3 |
Irene Fowler: An Ode To Lost Love "Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all." - Alfred Lord Tennyson 13 |
Bob Stuart: Musical Goodness Entertainment can be a strong force for both personal improvement and for cultural change. Here are a few links to music and comedy that I've found inspiring but are not the best known. 6 |
Irene Fowler: Daisies Are Forever "Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer do I'm half crazy all for the love of you It won't be a stylish marriage I can't afford a carriage But you'll look sweet upon the seat Of a bicycle built for two." Harry Dacre 2 |
Gary Lindorff: Bomb the ending followed by a reflection Bomb the volcano! / Bomb the city. / Bomb the northern lights if you want to. |
Gary Lindorff: There will be a war It will not be just any old war. / It will be our very own war. / Make it count. 4 |
Gary Lindorff: Somewhere in Coimbatore Somewhere in Coimbatore / There is a patch of grass / That is greener than green |
Gary Lindorff: Tenderized by L/life You might not understand what I am saying. / That is why I am including the link in this poem. |
John Hawkins: Three Poems on Race Three Poems on Race. The new year of poesy begins from he formerly known as the daily sonneteer. Normal again, ordinary, and don't feel good. |
John Hawkins: BOOK REVIEW: Cautivos by Ariel Dorfman BOOK REVIEW: Cautivos by Ariel Dorfman. Ariel Dorfman: Caught in the Commission of a Truth. Dorfman's short novel provides an entertaining and insightful look at Cervantes captivity as a catalyst for his later penning of Don Quixote. Well worth the read. |
Gary Lindorff: Letters from camp (fact-checked)
I am the second oldest in my cabin. / Ben is the oldest. He is 10. / Spiders live under the cabin. 1 |