Meditation/Remembrance for the Day: The National Cathedral in DC tolled its big booming bell 200 times yesterday as sound track for the U.S. reaching 200 THOUSAND Covid deaths. Click here to see it on YouTube. It’s on YouTube. No sermon, no choir, no ads, no collection. It lasts almost 20 minutes. Suggestion: click the link, … Continue reading Meditation/Remembrance for the Day: 200,000
One of Cohen’s observations in his book Disloyal about Trump & his early political maneuvers was corroborated by today’s reports of Trump’s taped conversations with Bob Woodward: Cohen: In those early manifestations of Trump’s aspirations, he revealed an uncanny knack for channeling the fears and resentments of the age . . . . Just one … Continue reading Michael Cohen Thursday: Beginning Portrait of the Greatest Con Artist
< one > Chekhov: “Any idiot can face a crisis; it is this day-to-day living that wears you out.” Sometime around the late 1980s, I started having two recurring nightmares: One, I’m maybe at home, or out somewhere, when the sky darkens and a dull roar starts up. It’s a tornado, bearing down on right … Continue reading Karmic Collision IV: Like a (Kidney) Stone
In my experience, the work of overcoming racism and its sordid history has many aspects, and can be pursued in many ways. Some are loud and disruptive. Others are calmly persuasive. Different strokes for different folks. Here I want to pay tribute to a current worker, a friend of mine, and fellow Quaker, Ron Osborne. … Continue reading Ongoing: The Everyday Work of Facing a Racist History
<one> The time I spent in the civil rights struggle for Black voting rights in 1965 was a very important part of my life. And the time I spent working for the Postal Service (USPS), beginning twenty years later in 1985, was important too. But the two experiences were very different, so different I couldn’t … Continue reading Karmic Collision – I: The Post Office, Voting Rights & Me. Dog Days Reading.