Chris Hedges is one of those rare critters we always hope to catch sight of: a journalist with integrity. Here are 3 articles by him. Three by Chris Hedges: Trump, the Uber-Rich, the corporate state and elections. via The Uber-Rich: Tyranny or Revolution, Scum vs. Scum, The Cult of Trump — Rise Up Times
Author: Lisa or Li
mother, grandmother, gardener, observer of nature, reader, writer, learner, bicyclist, woman who runs with the wolves, lover of music, philosophical daoist. Welcome.
Poetry — Dancing with Danger
image link The prompt word for #FOWC today is danger. Today’s offering is a nonet and a reverse nonet. Fear exists only because of danger. Real? Imagined? Despots know that creating an illusion of a reality that all is danger means they can rule through keeping subjects scared. How do we break out of the…
Gaia’s Family
image link First is an acrostic poem, then a distillation of the ideas in a free-form. People with a shared vision and willing to act based on that vision, where vision includes sharing the Earth with its other inhabitants where other critters are allowed to live in peace Air, fresh, along with space to move…
pendulum
image link OK, time to get myself together and get out there and VOTE. So much is at stake in Michigan elections, especially with the governor’s race. We have had slimeball for awhile but his term limits are up. We had a GREAT contender in the primaries, Abdul El-Sayed , but he lost the Democratic…
The beauty of a well-built fire
The fire burning in the wood burner tonight. triangle of logs burning as one grace this home with heat from its heart
Adventure with Boss
Boss walked to the entrance to my cubicle, standing there in his $2,000 suit, hands on hips, stating I needed to come to his office immediately. “Just let me finish this e-mail to admin, and I’ll be right there.” “I guess you don’t understand the word immediately?” Click, I hit send on the email and…
Tao-Talk 