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Man swims 62 miles around Martha’s Vineyard to pre...
A thousand saplings have started growing in the bi...
Crimson Courage
“You see, in my view a writer is a write...
What we do might be done in solitude and with gre...
I am going to be rather hard-nosed and say that if...
The Creative Adult is the Child Who Survived
I meet my characters the way I encounter people in...
The Dissident: Alexey Navalny: Profile of a Politi...
The Orange Menace is Imitating Putin
The problem is you’re afraid to acknowledge your o...
Laughter is sunshine, it chases winter from the hu...
Our mind is enriched by what we receive, our heart...
When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a ...
To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllabl...
It takes me out of my own limited, chosen world.
This was why she could not sleep.
“Read the best writers from all different periods;...
The Return of Odysseus by George Bilgere
Darya Navalnya
Like Riding a Bicycle poem by George Bilgere
the reader’s bravery is allowing himself to trust ...
Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.
So plant your own gardens and decorate your own so...
All that happens to us, including our humiliations...
We've been in a POLITICAL PANDEMIC since the MONST...
I love this poem. It's a painting with words.
Learning the Quirks
Dream
When the Seasons Change (with Pollen & Full Moon)
poet Ezra Pound once said, “Literature is news tha...
We but mirror the world. All the tendencies presen...
I once told my kids that their taste buds change w...
You've got to sell your heart, your strongest rea...
At the table, one never grows old. Italian Proverb
After a lifetime of hounding authors for advice, I...
The Mother Wound
Best Laid Plans
The National Nightmare
Thomas Deininger - Trash to Treasure (In Tiverton RI)
Alexey Navalny's Memoir
The Dissident
Alexei Navalny
We must do what they fear--tell the truth, spread ...
Colorful Simple Supper: Brown Rice, Red Onion, Car...
Fourteen
New Pope Leo XIV.
Trapped
The Days of Abandonment by Elena Ferrante
1.5-ounce serving of 80 percent cacao dark chocola...
Julia Carrie Wong
Bill Calhoun
Hot Rod Harriet
Improvement by Danusha Laméris
Preserving Cherokee Language, 10 Books at a Time ...
Tips to Grow New Neurons
fortitude: strength of mind that enables a person ...
I am sad to hear that our City government last nig...
Any page of good prose has something of the qualit...
Esther Abrami is opening the door of a hidden trea...
Telling stories really is a kind of power
If people read your work and, as a result, choose ...
a terrible and ghastly violation
“Each of us narrates our life as it suits us.”
Words: with them you can do and undo as you please...
“Children don’t know the meaning of yesterday, of ...
The Dog Watched Television (a poem) by Faith Shearin
"I think there is a reason why the past collects i...
Faith Shearin
Sir Thomas Allen directs Mozart The Marriage of Fi...
Popeye's Sauerkraut
At the heart of all great art is an essential mela...
A nation that continues year after year to spend m...
Socialism is what they called social security. Soc...
Finding Zen in Swimming by Mike Gustafson
Bonnard's paintings divided his two contemporaries...
How to Teach Reading in the Classroom
Authoritarianism depends on obedience. On predicta...
How Breath-Control Can Change Your Life
Rhythmic Breathing in Swimming
Deep breathing is one of the best antidotes to str...
The Simple Act of Breathing
We should always be ready. We should always be hum...
“Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can mak...
Every word has consequences. Every silence, too. J...
Are you kind? Do you think critically? Are you s...
This is my simple religion. There is no need for t...
Seven Lakota Values: Generosity, Kinship, Fortitud...
The Meaning of the Four Directions in Native Ameri...
"Sparrows," by Bill Holm
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Saturday, May 03, 2025
A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.
Martin Luther King Jr.
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