Sir Philip Sidney: A Ditty
My true love hath my heart, and I have his, By just exchange one to the other given: I hold his dear, and mine he cannot miss, There never … Continue reading
Wendell Berry: On Love, Freedom and Community
People use drugs, legal and illegal, because their lives are intolerably painful or dull. They hate their work and find no rest in their leisure. They are estranged from their … Continue reading
Phoebe A. Cirio: A Tragic Failure to Communicate
“What we’ve got here is a failure to communicate.” Captain to Luke in Cool Hand Luke. I am a white, middle-aged woman, someone not likely to be regarded as a … Continue reading
Marc Jampole: KABLAM!!
Debate predictions: Media face 3 moments of truth & the “birther” becomes a quitter. The news media would like to cast the upcoming presidential debates as an Armageddon-like battle for … Continue reading
Christina Rossetti: From Sunset to Star Rise
Go from me, summer friends, and tarry not: I am no summer friend, but wintry cold, A silly sheep benighted from the fold, A sluggard with a thorn-choked garden plot. … Continue reading
George Monbiot: Disposable Planet
In western society, consumerism occupies a sacred and inviolable space, while the wonders of the living world are dispensable. The world’s largest land animal, the biggest fish, the bird with … Continue reading
Elizabeth Gargano: Soup
That fall the hunger came upon her, fierce and angry, a hunger for apples bubbling in a cast-iron pan, tart, grainy with cinnamon, for yams bursting out of their burnt … Continue reading
Peter Van Buren: It’s Personal
Apologizing to My Daughter for the Last 15 Years of War I recently sent my last kid off for her senior year of college. There are rituals to such moments, … Continue reading
Jose Padua: How the Gardener of Sorrows Tends to the Sadness of Things
I tend this landscape of terrible sadness because it is my duty to bring order to this garden of loss, to pull out the weeds that crowd out the flowers … Continue reading
Marc Jampole: Bamboozled by the Media (Again)
Newsworthy: Quack gives a clean bill of health to conman. Not newsworthy: HRC talks about real path to citizenship Mark Twain would have changed the names and turned it into … Continue reading
Ellen McGrath Smith: Politics
Thank you, red, blue, and purple map on TV, for showing us as we truly are, smaller than the people in the Lexus ad, smaller when separated from the whole; … Continue reading
Video: ‘The Kid’ by Charlie Chaplin (complete feature film)
Email subscribers may click on the title of this article to watch the complete version of the film. The Kid is a 1921 American silent film written, produced, and … Continue reading
Video: Official Trailer for “Snowden” by Oliver Stone
. Academy Award-winning director Oliver Stone, the director of Platoon, Born on the Fourth of July, Wall Street and JFK, has released Snowden, the politically-charged thriller starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Shailene Woodley, … Continue reading
Video: “Kulning” — Ancient Swedish Herding Call
. Swedish artist, photographer, and blogger Jonna Jinton says, “Kulning is the word for the ancient Swedish herding call that has its roots in the nordic medieval age. Because … Continue reading
