I’ve pretty much run out of things to say about the state of the world that are not being articulated better and with great persistence, by comentators and journalists like Wizard Bisan (Bisan Owda), Motaz Azaiza (photographer and speaker), Vijay Prasad, Jemima Pierre, Aaron Mate, Youtube’s Neutrality Studies, Breakthrough News, and some other independent sites….
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The Close and Holy Darkness! Winter Solstice and the Song of Poetry: A Moment with Dylan Thomas
Every few years around this time, I read or see or hear a version of Dylan Thomas’ A Child’s Christmas in Wales. Such a beautiful prose poem where the words sing like the wind and the sea herself. This year, I drew to a reading of the piece, as I found the very LP record…
Solstice 2020
Today marks the shortest daylight in our hemisphere, and the arrival of winter’s official season. But as of tomorrow, the days will lengthen again imperceptibly, and for those of us who need the light, like morning glories or sunflowers, hope will gradually be born anew. Indigenous and pagan peoples celebrated and celebrate the energies and…
Ear to the Ground 