poetry – The Watering Hole

Observance: “everyone receives what he deserves”

Sept 22 2025 In a society radically tilted towards authoritarianism, it’s good to revisit history. In a nation traumatized by gun violence, polarized by social inequality and burdened by hate speech, it’s good to revisit poetry. So, here’s one from the great Ernesto Cardenal, pastor and poet of the Sandanista revolution and of Latin AmericanContinue reading “Observance: “everyone receives what he deserves” “

Observance: Totalitarian regimes use words to mean their opposite

December 15, 2024 I have intended to use this space to make Observances, mostly in prose, about the intersections between my own personal, lived experience, close to home, and the politics of the moment as I see it. But with some really great sources that echo what I would have to say politically (and sayContinue reading “Observance: Totalitarian regimes use words to mean their opposite”

Observances

November 1 2024: Let’s see what we can see Driving through the Massachusetts woods, six-year old Raisa recognizes location by a rainbow-painted mailbox, a sharp bend in the road, a river crossing. Recently, she astonished me with such a noticing, able to detect that we were nearing home as we sped past a yellow bog.Continue reading “Observances”

My Books of 2023

In keeping with the end of year tradition, here, just a week or so overdue, is the list of books I read or listened to, cover to cover, in 2023… “Let us put it into context. This was the beginning of the Old Wild West Days. In most ways it was a retrogression. The lawlessnessContinue reading “My Books of 2023”