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- Reflections on the 2017 Philip Larkin Exhibition at Hull
- Perhaps Someday We Will Learn How to Live
- America’s Unofficial Poet Laureate: Mary Oliver
- On First Looking Into Milford’s Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay
- Sarah Teasdale: “There Will Come Soft Rains”
- Is Mindfulness Warmed-over Buddhism?
- She showed us the way: Reflections on Mary Tyler Moore
- Book fan, Barack Obama
- Happiness: What it is and How to Find It
- Tibet’s Tragedy: A Culture Teetering into Oblivion
- Weighing-in: Reflections on 2016
- Does the Electoral College Have a Future?
- Teach me to measure all my days
- Solace for the Hard Places: Jeffers, “Shine, Perishing Republic”
- You have every right to be afraid!
- Open the door and come right in….
- Introducing my hummingbird friends…
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- Live Longer Now
- On Reading Rebecca Mead’s My Life in Middlemarch
- Revisiting George Eliot’s Middlemarch
- New England Memories
- Memorial Day: “Neither shall they learn war any more”
- Before Surgery Reading: Herriot’s All Creatures Great and Small
- A favorite poem: William Carlos Williams’ “Spring and All”
- The war on cancer: New treatments lock-out most of us
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- Apple vs. the FBI: How Money May Decide the Issue
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Category Archives: Politics
Perhaps Someday We Will Learn How to Live
Every morning I awaken to a country bristling with hate, intolerance, and violence. Trump bullied his way to the presidency, exploiting public anxieties, e. g., steel belt resentment of jobs sent abroad, latent fears of a changing demographic replacing White … Continue reading
Posted in Lifestyle, Politics
Tagged hate, Islamaphobia, Muslims, Southern Poverty Law Center, Trump
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Tibet’s Tragedy: A Culture Teetering into Oblivion
The horror began with the Chinese invasion of Tibet in 1949. In the decades since, Chinese oppression has continued relentlessly, with several hundred thousand Tibetans having been executed, tortured or imprisoned. Commenting after her recent release, one survivor informs us … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, Reflections
Tagged Amnesty International, Buddhism, Dalai Llama, Larung Gar, Lhasa, Stephen Batchelor, Tibet, Tibetan Buddhism
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Does the Electoral College Have a Future?
The Electoral College has been in the news a lot lately. And why not, considering that the loser in the 2016 election garnered nearly 3 million more votes than the declared winner. In fact, Hillary Clinton’s popular vote turns out … Continue reading
Posted in Politics
Tagged Alexander Hamilton, Amendment 12, electoral College, Founding Fathers, the Constitution
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Apple vs. the FBI: How Money May Decide the Issue
Things are really heating up these days in the ongoing dispute between Apple and the FBI. In December, fourteen people were killed by ISIL sympathizers Farook Malik and his wife Taskeen, in San Bernardino, CA. In the aftermath, the … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, Reflections, Technology
Tagged Apple, Bernie Sanders, Congress, contributions to members of Congress, FBI, ISIL, ISIS, mass shootings, pacs, San Bernardino, terrorism, Tim Cook
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Cultivating Stillness
I am full of early morning, tucked beneath my comforter, stretching my legs, my brain filling its daily bucket of anxieties sufficient for another day’s wrestlings. These several days I’ve laid siege to my citadel of habit, rising in winter’s … Continue reading
Paris Bombings, Public Response, and the New Tribalism
Evil is very real and as we know from the Paris mayhem, universal. ISIS, of course, is its mirror image. This week, Kurdish Peshmerga troops, retaking the city of Sinjar in northern Iraq, discovered two mass graves just outside the … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, Reflections
Tagged Iraq, Kurds, media, Muslim, Paris bombings, Sinjar, Yadzidis
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The Elephant Factor in Last Night’s Debate
Growing older may not be a disease, but like many diseases, it’s progressive. Not only do we diminish in physical capacity, but in mental acuteness as well, resulting in a lower threshold in processing information. Aging needn’t be feared per … Continue reading
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When Religion Strays too Far: The Hobby Lobby Aftermath
It’s sufficiently dismaying that the Supreme Court via its Hobby Lobby decision has further defined corporate entities as people, and thus with inherent individual rights. Not only do corporations have unlimited spending rights when it comes to elections, but with … Continue reading
Convincing meteorologists that climate change is real
You can see from the above photo the challenge our president faces in convincing, of all people, our meteorologists, that climate change isn’t simply cyclic, but ongoing, posing devastating consequences for America, with no region spared. Further, we humans are … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Politics, Reflections
Tagged climate change, Meteorologists, President Obama
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Climate Change: Can we win the fight?
We just celebrated Earth Day on April 22, an annual fête of huge importance for those of us wanting to increase the public’s awareness of the challenge of climate change, and our substantial human contribution to it, and ways we … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, People, Politics, Reflections
Tagged climate, climate change, divestment, environment, fossil fuel divestment, Gary Peters, Global Warming, Harvard University, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Keystone XL, Koch brothers, Obama, Sierra Club, sit-ins, Vietnam
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