Category Archives: Fire This Time
“Bloody Sunday” in Selma plus 60: Victory Undone, Battle Renewed
Below is a black & white news photo from late February, 1965. It turned up a few years back (hat tip to the sharp-eyed Lewis Lewis): it was taken on the steps of Brown Chapel AME Church in Selma, Alabama when John Lewis (center-left, with a tie) announced the plan to march from Selma … Continue reading “Bloody Sunday” in Selma plus 60: Victory Undone, Battle Renewed
Gwynne Dyer: Happy(??) Climate New Year
Welcome to ‘Uncharted Territory’ Gwynne Dyer, January 2, 2025 New Year is when we do the accounts for the year, and the bad news always gets top billing: how many wars are going on, how big were the natural disasters, etc.? Climate change now has its own slot in this annual accounting, and here is … Continue reading Gwynne Dyer: Happy(??) Climate New Year
The Shadow at the Pride Festival
A year ago last Saturday, the Friends Meeting I’m part of took a big step, for us: we rented a booth at the Alamance Pride Festival, held in a large park in downtown Burlington NC. Outwardly, our booth was not particularly eye-catching. Amid the fluttering of a thousand floating rainbows, the yellow table banner we … Continue reading The Shadow at the Pride Festival
Rebuilding After the Earthquake, and A Birthday Rainbow
This post was delivered as a message in Spring Friends Meeting on Eighth Month (August 11, 2024). Today after meeting, Wendy and I are going to a small family birthday party, for a great-granddaughter who has turned seven. That quiet gathering will be a very modest landmark in what has been a very … Continue reading Rebuilding After the Earthquake, and A Birthday Rainbow