Ikkyu: Love Letters
love letters
sent by the wind and rain, the snow and moon
Paul Christensen: A Cup of Light
Soon enough the stars will appear like little nicks of light gouged into the darkness. Voices emerge from the ambiguity of evening as the kids return from school, grumpy and starving, and reach for a cup of hot chocolate and the first sugary taste of cake in their eager mouths.
Video: Becoming
This timelapse video from the Dutch director Jan van IJken tracks the development of a single-celled zygote into the hatched larva of an alpine newt. (6 minutes)
Robinson Jeffers: Rock and Hawk
Here is a symbol in which
Many high tragic thoughts
Watch their own eyes.
Kari Hammerschlag, Christopher D. Cook: Banks Worldwide Must End Funding of Factory Farms to Halt Climate Damage
As the climate crisis boils over, new research shows that reducing methane emissions is our best hope to rapidly stem the crisis.
Rebecca Gordon: Seeing the Future
For the sake of the world, let us hope that this time Cassandra will be believed.
La Via Campesina: Food Sovereignty | A Manifesto for the Future of Our Planet
Food Sovereignty promotes justice, equality, dignity, fraternity and solidarity. Food Sovereignty is also the science of life.
Kari Gunter-Seymour: That Spot where Raccoon Creek Meets Brush Fork
I wish I could say
I lay your body under the honeysuckle
the day you crossed over, let vine and wisp
hang nectar all around you.
Rachel Hadas: Fire Pit
Gathered, we watched flames
flickering and drawing us together.
It was hard to pull our eyes away.
Video: A Small Antelope Horn
Sitting by the fire with a nomadic tribe, a physicist ponders the many shapes of wisdom.
Lourdes Medrano: Growing Food and Latino Culture in Tucson’s Barrio Centro
In a long-abandoned school playground, a small-scale farm is planting seeds for a more equitable and sustaining food system in a neighborhood where fresh, affordable food is hard to come by.
Judith Sanders: Feeding the Horses at Crystal Spring Farm
Out past the empty barn,
twin Percherons, tall as steeples,
canter across their meadow
to greet my small son and me.
Derrick Z. Jackson: ‘Code Red’ for Climate Means Reducing US Oil and Gas Production Now
For all the obvious climate impacts, the United States does not yet seem disturbed enough to demonstrably disrupt our burning of fossil fuels.
Bryan Farrell: ‘The only way out of Libya is by sea’ — How migrant rescuers are making history in the Mediterranean
While governments fail to meet basic humanitarian requirements, rescue organizations like Sea-Watch are taking life-saving action on the frontlines of the European migrant crisis.
