Dostoevsky Wrote, “Beauty…
..will save the world” I don’t know about “save” But, yes, beauty & friendship & community & solidarity & loveshine may get us through the next week Hedy Epstein and Sandra Tamari, on the occasion…
Author: Mark J. Chmiel
Two Quotations I Culled from a Book I Was Reading
1. “I don’t care if I fall as long as someone else picks up my gun and keeps on shooting.” –Che Guevara 2. ” Love is the most important ingredient in nonviolent work.” –Cesar Chavez
The Journey of a Thousand Miles Begins…
My friend Randa seems to know everyone in St. Louis I’ve seen her legal pad of lists of people she must see Within a time span that doesn’t seem humanly possible I could be sitting…
The Way It Is
There are hundred thousands of stems linking us to everything in the cosmos, Supporting us and making it possible for us to be. Do you see the link between you and me? If you are…
Easy To Forget
As long as we are motivated by the desire to punish each other, there will be no end to the hostilities and there will be no happiness in me, in you, or between us. –Thich…
Bearing Witness
for Sandra Tamari Yet it was plain to us that by reckoning with Taha’s exceptional personality and poems, many of these American audiences were also reckoning for the first time with a Palestinian—not as a…
“There’s Just a Meanness in This World”
On Charles Reznikoff, Testimony, v.2 The United States (1885-1915): Recitative I can’t say I was tremendously impressed with this “broken-up prose” (wife Marie Syrkin’s label). Maybe it’s the dating—it’s way back in US history, and it’s hard…
Magan Wiles in “My Name Is Rachel Corrie”
COME TO “MY NAME IS RACHEL CORRIE” AT SLU BLACK BOX THEATER, JULY 8-11TH AND 15TH-18TH! Blue Rose Stage Collective presents their debut production: MY NAME IS RACHEL CORRIE Taken from the writings of Rachel…
Free Palestine/Cairo
Michelle Conley sent me the following while traveling: Picture from a Palestine support rally in Cairo…the police asked where we were from and we said America, but quickly said we supported Palestine. He asked “are…
The Same Fate as the Palestinians
1. Archbishop Oscar Romero once stated, “Christ invites us not to fear persecution. Believe me, brothers and sisters, Anyone committed to the poor Must suffer the same fate as the poor. And in El Salvador…