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Tag Archives: commentary
the long adventure
Stones are rounded by the caress of water, three hundred thousand years without me. I am so small. I am so big. I am just a speck on the page of this long adventure. To breathe in the dust of … Continue reading
Environmental Justice
I want to explain what “environmental justice” means to me. The EPA (Environmental Protection Agency of the United States) defines it thusly: “Environmental Justice is the fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people regardless of race, color, national origin, … Continue reading
Posted in activism, America, Apathy, China, cities, Community, Corporations, Earth, economics, environment, Equality, global dominance, India, justice, pollution, rural, superpowers, systems
Tagged America, capitalism, classism, commentary, contemplation, corporations, death, Earth, environmental justice
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Compassion الرحمة
حقا، والله هو الرحيم ومغرم الرحمة، وقال انه يعطي لالرأفة وما لا يعطي على قاسية “Verily, God is Compassionate and is fond of compassion, and He gives to the compassionate what He does not give to the harsh.” Do they … Continue reading
Posted in alienation, Apathy, belonging, Community, compassion, Contemplations, crime, Death, faith, family, Law, life, love, mercy, Poetry, Politics, prayers
Tagged commentary, compassion, contemplation, Creator, darkness, death, hatred, Islamic State, love, mercy, power, self righteousness, terror
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Default: Judgement Rendered
Gay Marriage. So, the US Supreme Court denies a couple of appeals and makes a few million dreams come true. Thank you.
Posted in Equality, Gay Rights, Law, Same Sex Marriage
Tagged America, classism, commentary, contemplation, Democracy, dreams, Gay Marriage, United States Supreme Court
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Pride and Governments
I’ve done a lot of thinking over the years about systems of government and I’ve come to one conclusion: they ALL fail to one extent or another. Why do they fail? There’s a myriad of reasons; surely, some are specific … Continue reading
Posted in Democracy, Socialism
Tagged America, capitalism, classism, commentary, communism, compassion, congress, contemplation, corporations, Democracy, Earth, homelessness, inhumanity, need, plutocracy, politics, poor, poverty, power, violence, world
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Cooks County
Cooks County Jail is a warehouse. They inventory degrees of madness, of loneliness and abandonment. Here they shelter people who think they are Jesus, women who pull out their hair men whose only crime is having concrete for a bed. … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged abandonment, austerity, budget cuts, commentary, concrete, Cooks County Jail, crime, funds, human beings, inventory, Jesus, loneliness, madness, men, mentally ill, poetry, prose, Ronald Reagan, shelter, soulless, warehouse, women
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beehive
“If I ever catch you with one of them, I’ll kill ya.” He was a sailor, he was a patriot, a Catholic, a husband and a good man. He was a bigot, he was short tempered and self righteous. He … Continue reading
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Tagged beehive, bigot, Catholic, commentary, contemplation, Father, husband, patriot, poetry, prose, sailor
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I am sorry
We were stumbling down an alley behind businesses and stone faced dwellings for trendy young families and local hipsters. They were the kind who bought their food from co-ops but didn’t volunteer. They drove expensive cars they wore expensive clothes … Continue reading
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Tagged alley, asphalt, booze, commentary, contemplation, darkness, expensive, foolish, ground, hipsters, kids, leaves, party, poetry, prose, shadows, sorry, young
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the river brought me
He was standing alongside the bank, hat in hand, eyes lost to the movement and the glare of stunning sunlight, hearing immersed in the hiss and trickle, splash and gurgle, the lapping up onto smooth river stones. There was something … Continue reading
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Tagged chessboard, commentary, contemplation, dreams, nothing, poetry, prose, river, shells
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Coda
He’s got a green guitar, Emerald Isle green, and his hair is snow white now, but his voice still rings like a Tibetan bell. I don’t care that the decades have given him more wisdom than he had when he … Continue reading →