Daniel R. Cobb: Turn Left Here
What a god-awful year. 2017 has been a year of anguished outrage and quiet condolences, of trying to find a way to cope with the travesty that brought us Donald … Continue reading
Paul Christensen: The End of the Year
The days are paper thin at this time of year, like the onion skin my mother wrote her letters on. The hours slip along toward evening, and then evening congeals … Continue reading
George Monbiot: The Unseen World
To be aware of the wonders of the living planet is to take on an unbearable burden of grief. What you see is not what others see. We inhabit parallel … Continue reading
Audio: Merry it is while summer lasts (1225 AD)
. Recorded by Ensemble Belladonna, “Miri it is while sumer ilast” is considered the oldest surviving secular English song. Unfortunately only one verse survives: Miri it is while sumer ilast … Continue reading
Kristophe Green & Dacher Keltner: Nature Is So Good for You That Even Watching It on TV Improves Well-Being
Watching a few minutes of “Planet Earth” can lead you to feel 46 percent more awe and 31 percent more gratitude. Humans have long intuited that being in nature is … Continue reading
Lauren Reid: Why 2017 Was the Year of Resistance
Take a look back at the battles waged, victories won, and the collective resistance that defined 2017. Perhaps no year in recent memory has been as tumultuous as 2017. The … Continue reading
Chuck Taylor: The Coming
If you’ve walked in your heavy galoshes into a farmer’s wheat field covered with fresh snow on a bright Sunday morning, if you have listened with a sharp delight to … Continue reading
Jake Johnson: ‘It’s a Monster’ — California’s Thomas Fire Now Largest in State History
California’s Thomas Fire has been raging for just over two weeks in Santa Barbara and Ventura counties, and it has already torn through hundreds of homes, more than a thousand … Continue reading
Richard St. John: Reading Shaw’s Play, St. Joan at the Solstice, on a Greyhound, Heading Home
The year comes round again, with its own dark fairness. Out on the turnpike, flecks of sleet. Lightning through night clouds, ghostly, then stark. Echo of thunder. In the tabloid … Continue reading
Robert Okaji: Letter to Gierke from the Future’s Past
Dear Ken: I’m fixated on open faucets and drained tanks, on cracked PVC and browned grass, denial and what’s to come, thinking of old dogs and accusations and how the … Continue reading
Molly Fisk: Hunter’s Moon
Mid-December, dusk, and the sky slips down the rungs of its blue ladder into indigo. A late-quarter moon hangs in the air above the ridge like a broken plate and … Continue reading
Video: Tim Seibles — “One Turn Around the Sun”
. Tim Seibles reads “One Turn Around the Sun” at the 2014 Split This Rock Poetry Festival: Poems of Provocation & Witness, March 28, 2014 at the National Geographic Grosvenor … Continue reading
Video: Chris Hedges — “Fascism in the Age of Trump”
. Journalist, author and war correspondent Chris Hedges spoke at The Sanctuary for Independent Media in Troy NY on November 10, 2017 on fascism and empire in the age of … Continue reading
Doug Anderson: Morning Blues
Winter sneaking through the trees with his bag of salt. Winter sneaking through the trees with his bag of salt. Dark days coming ain’t nobody’s fault. Used to think love … Continue reading
