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170 Syllables
Today you are rage
Crash, tumble and angry roar
Gray water churning
Torrid and greedy
Pounding with your suck and snarl
Your fierce hungry mouth
All fury and flow
Melting into a broad sky
Vast ...
“Because love is an act of courage, not of fear, love is a commitment to others. No matter where the oppressed are found, the act of love is commitment to their cause—the cause of liberation.”
― Paulo Freire
Never has a winter seemed so long and so dark.
And, while the recent arctic temperatures in my neck of the ...
"In the very end, civilizations perish because they listen to their politicians and not to their poets."
— Jonas Mekas
Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about how to save the world.
I know this sounds a little dramatic, but honestly, I don’t think I’m alone here. Everywhere I look, I see good people doing what they can to h...
Like most people I know, I am not trying to be on a jury.
Of course, I’ll show up when they tell me to and of course, I’ll be honest and forthcoming if I actually make it to the jury box to be questioned—or voir dired, as they say in the business. Afterward, I might even feel a little proud to have fulfilled this tiny bit of civic duty, even as I complain abou...
“A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention…”
~Herbert Simon (1971)
Part I
At any given moment, on any given day, each of us is deciding — sometimes intentionally, but often, reflexively — where to allocate the precious resource that is our attention. And, whether we think about it or not, the choice to pay attention to one thing inherently...