Sunny Side Up

I've been reading, with relish, Rebecca Solnit's new book  The Beginning Comes After the End: Notes on a World of Change.  The work ...

The maples are winding up their tricolor stage

As the "cease fire" in the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran reaches its end, the U. S. president itching to reclaim the narrative and leav...

The only thing more astonishing than the explosion our unseasonably warm days provoked in the hickory planted in front of our building last...

I went all out in "After Religion" today. Or tried.  Because I also had to go out (I was facilitator of a meeting of faculty repre...

The very expressive tulips at the entrance to The New School , at 90˚

Some scenes from a nervous New School today: an undergraduate, receiving a prize for experimental poetry, reads a favorite very non-experime...

The day began with a cry of distress from Rebecca Solnit, my anchor for hope in dark times.  The United States is being murdered, she write...

  In the midst of all this fear, shame and heartache

How could I not share this 2017 poem from Ada Límon, shared today by some algorithm and poets.org (on whose site you can also hear it read ...

He chickened out, thank God. Now how do we get him out before he does more damage? He destroys all he touches, and war crimes, nuclear thre...

I missed the chance to watch this moment live, but hearing about it from someone who did gave me goosebumps aplenty.