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 Gary Lindorff: As the book (of life) progresses But while I was brushing my teeth / I had a whole different thought./ I was trying to remember /If I bookmarked where I left off reading |
 Thomas Farrell: My Two UMD Advanced Writing Courses, and Walter J. Ong's Thought (REVIEW ESSAY) In the present 2,235-word OEN article, I mention the American Jesuit scholar Walter J. Ong (1912-2003; Ph.D. in English, Harvard University, 1955) of Saint Louis University, by name eight times as I highlight my two UMD Advanced Writing courses: (1) Advanced Writing Social Sciences (for sociology majors and criminology majors) and (2) Advanced Writing Human Services (for majors in elementary education and secondary education). |
 Philip Kraske: Are You Rooting for Iran? On political talk shows, in Comments sections, and in articles so many Americans are rooting for Iran. Odd! |
 Kevin Tully: Train Up The Child Manny Stroud stood on the floor of the House of Representatives and warned them about killing other people's children. They booed and heckled him. He warned them.... |
 Mike Rivage-Seul: Palm Sunday: Jesus and the Politics of Empire PALM SUNDAY HOMILY: Jesus was not killed because he preached kindness or interior spirituality. Rome crucified him because his message and actions threatened the stability of empire. |
 Gary Lindorff: Simmering down; how to benefit from our anger Don't stop being angry necessarily. / Anger is a legitimate motivator. / But just turn it down slightly to simmer. |
 Gary Lindorff: Writing like an adolescent again, serving the archetypes Writing for imaginary deadlines sent out by the doomsday clock. / Life feels like that again: volatile, important, miraculous, / Worth defending, |
Gary Lindorff: Climbing the wall
I stay low, crouching with the others, waiting for a signal from the leader. / And there it is, a red blinking penlight at the foot of the wall, |
 Gary Lindorff: Unless we make different choices I'm still here. With you. / We are still here./ Choices can be powerful. / Choices can be deadly. |
 Bob Gaydos: History is in the numbers An interesting congregation of numbers. Coincidence? Synchronicity? |
Gary Lindorff: The Minab and Aberfan (Wales) disasters compared
I have always wondered what kind of person I would have been if I had lived my life in a truly free country, instead of in a militaristic state masquerading as a democracy. |
Gary Lindorff: Weather shamanism -- a lost art or not?
The medicine man looked out and saw a little cloud in the distance. / He was feeling bad about the company / And he felt a strong bond with that little cloud. |
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Gary Lindorff: Answer to eschatology as a world view
The middle eastern collective psyche (lumping that part of the world together, its "journey"), has a different destiny (than the Western psyche) due to its different dominant archetypes. |
Gary Lindorff: Trying to compose my thoughts in Jupiter, FL
I treat myself to the fantasy that their world is flat / And that they will drive off the edge / Somewhere out of sight to the right. | |
 Gary Lindorff: My phone doesn't respect me I took one, just one, shot / With absolute passive-aggressive artistic abandon. / My phone might as well have said - I'll show you, smart ass! |
 Mike Rivage-Seul: What the Gospel of the Man Born Blind Says About War, Empire, and Biblical Illiteracy LENTEN HOMILY: The logic of empire assumes that leadership belongs naturally to those who are wealthy, impressive, and already powerful. The Bible insists on the opposite: God's future consistently begins among those whom society overlooks: slaves in Egypt, shepherds in Bethlehem, fishermen in Galilee, a construction worker from Nazareth. 1  |
 Gary Lindorff: The paradigm shift will be revealed by what people are dreaming Most people don't recall their dreams, so they are projecting their complexes onto the blue screen of the phenomenal world, essentially living in the Matrix. |
 Gary Lindorff: The kick off I've never compared myself to a football before / But to that spirit / That launched my ass, . . . |
 John Hawkins: Picking Up the Peaces John Rachel argues for the long-deferred peace dividend""a kind of war reparation owed to a public fleeced to make war for punks of the deep state. Let's Go, Joe! |
 Mike Rivage-Seul: Wells, Walls, and Manufactured Thirst SUNDAY HOMILY: The irony is painful. The people who once wandered as refugees in the desert now fear refugees at their gates. The descendants of immigrants fear immigration. The community that drinks from a rock fears sharing water. 3 |
 John Hawkins: In This World (poem) Reading Michael Crichton again in later life, especially The Andromeda Strain, has made me realize a totally different way of seeing humankind. |
 Gary Lindorff: Jung: Psyche is soul (It is also infinite) The psyche is the potential for self-awareness that is our birthright. It begins to expand at birth like a blossoming bud except that it is not a thing, but a dimension. 3 |
 Carl Petersen: The Night Ghost Turned an Arena Into a Church I came for the spectacle. I stayed for the joy, the belonging, and the faux"'Pope who brought an arena together. |
 John Hawkins: All Aboard the Secular Zion Train We are all Jews. All we Abrahamics. Let us love each other. Here I present Abbie Hoffman, Louis Brandeis, and Bibi in contrasting tones and rhythms. "L'chaim, brother. |
 Gary Lindorff: Automaton Check out my life-like movements. / I know how to dance, / Disco being my specialty. |
 Springsteen's Bona Fide Greatness In which specific ways has Bruce Springsteen achieved bona fide "greatness"? Microsoft Copilot AI: Here's the thing about Springsteen: when you ask In which specific ways has he achieved bona fide greatness? you're not asking for a fan's gush or a critic's list. You're asking for the structural, civilizational, artist, historical sense of greatness, the kind that belongs to the very few who alter the imaginative a... |
 Philip Kraske: Artificial I versus Natural I: Oooof! The story of how AI ruined my love life, job, and privacy. |
 Gary Lindorff: What is wrong? A butterfly landed near me / And opened and closed its wings. / I did not notice. |
Gary Lindorff: Renewing a promise: for the liminal days we live in
I knew that I was in the presence of an intelligent being. Please understand that this is not a thought. It is a powerful memory like when you meet someone who leaves an indelible impression on you. . . . |
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