“Mother Earth was inspired by a painting a friend gifted me. I met the actual artist at a gallery event years later. Global warming and human impact on the planet are a constant ache in the back of my mind.”
Education 101: Phone Calls & “It’s Gotta Be Cats!”
On hearing loud talker’s phone conversations, a clip from the film “Angles in America.” Al Pacino playing Roy Cohn, Trump’s former attorney and mentor.
Education 101: Impeachments & Conspiracy Theories | Nixon and Now
SLOW BURN S1 Ep. 6: Rabbit Holes
“Take a listen to how Watergate turned America into a nation of conspiracy theorists.” It explains plenty.
Giuliani: Four Charges. Cohn: Six Decades. | Editorial
CW: Mentioned is Epstein and Roy Cohn’s pedophilia rings and the Catholic sex abuse cover up is briefly mentioned.
Giuliani, his henchmen, Trump, the Cohn playbook. This time is not one event. It’s complexity reaches back to McCarthy’s Red Scare and the emboldened powerful doing harm to the innocent. This piece, and the notes below, ask you to consider “Is today part of a long timeline or an ugly human habit that is rearing it’s head again?”
Rise Above The News | #smallpress activism press kit
The antidote to anxiety is action ___ Join our ‘Rise Above the Headlines’ Campaign; Get to know our Take Action Resources Share these on social …
Weekly Feature | Complex PTSD
Editor’s note: The day we received Taylor Grace’s submission I read “I’m the Comedian Who Just Confronted Harvey Weinstein. Here’s Why I Spoke Up.Survivors of sexual assault shouldn’t have to explain their experiences — or stand in a room with Harvey Weinstein.” The parallels are stunning. Share this pairing of poetry and prose far and wide.
Book Nook | Editor’s Review of Indie Blu(e)’s SMITTEN
“It is rare to read about the ordinary day of loving and the swirl-wind of feelings of love entwined with the extraordinary complexities of being lesbian or bisexual. Indie Blu(e) press’s carefully curated collection achieved this. – Hokis
Weekly Feature | Ethans: pro-“life”
by Paula Ethans
“what good is a flower
if it never gets the chance
to grow. blossom into a bloom….”
Education 101: Complex PTSD
The suggested submission theme for November is “waiting.” We have received a number of submissions focused on a specific form of waiting; that which rises …
REST w/ angle Kyodo williams
“There is something dying in our society, in our culture, and there’s something dying in us individually. And what is dying, I think, is the willingness to be in denial.” – angel Kyodo williams
Education 101: The Election Story from Plymouth
Tuesday was election day. Wednesday morning this link was in my Twitter inbox, it was sent from a leader of the local resistance. I chose to share it in lieu of a poetic editorial. Nothing I could write would be as poetic as this. Hokis
REST w/ Truth re: Self-Care of Caretaking
Give me permission to “want” something and just not always be in a state of “need.”
