Facing The Facts/4
Reminiscence from Sister Marian Cowan, Mev’s spiritual director It was with deep pain that I recall the two calls in which Mev informed me of her brain tumor and subsequently asked me to be present…
Month: March 2020
I See You by Rachel Dratnol
To my fellow OTs, the PTs and SLPs, the nurses and NPs, the PCTs and unit clerks, the case managers and social workers, the MDs and PAs, the respiratory therapists and patient transporters, the environmental…
The Imperative To Remember
Anyone who does not actively, constantly engage in remembering and in making others remember is an accomplice of the enemy. Conversely, whoever opposes the enemy must take the side of his victims and communicate…
A Meditation on History by Vasily Grossman
Can we call someone a great man if he has not brought into people’s lives a single atom of good, a single atom of freedom and intelligence? Can we call someone a great man if…
Bullet the Blue Sky
But most men, it seems to me, do not care for Nature and would sell their share in all her beauty, as long as they may live, for a stated sum—many for a glass of…
Hope’s Beautiful Daughters: A Spring & Summer Class
Hope has two beautiful daughters. Their names are anger and courage: anger at the way things are, and courage to see that they do not remain the way they are. — Saint Augustine Why…
Think Small
Today my friend Lucy, an ICU nurse in Idaho, sent me a text expressing her gratitude for the solace she received from a very short chapter in my book, Dear Layla Welcome to Palestine.
Recent Tweets by AOC
The cruise industry registers as foreign companies to avoid paying US taxes. Now they want US bailout money. Now the same Republicans who say immigrants who pay US taxes shouldn’t get help are bending over…
My Nocturnal Pleasure…
Reading Lauren Sharpe.
Beautiful Anarchists
Howard Zinn, Emma: A Play in Two Acts About Emma Goldman, American Anarchist Those photos of Dorothy Day— Like the one you saw in the office at the Catholic Woker Where you were first scouted…