Over millennia cultures evolve due to the influx of new people with other cultural habits and ideas that lead to human innovation and creative explorations that led to the evolution of technology, from rock tools to iron tools to computers and more. Through it all humans have recorded their realities, […]
Some say that deaths come in threes. Some even breathe a sigh of relief when the third notice comes, believing some respite is near. An artist friend of mine spoke of three deaths she had experienced, grouped together, impossibly close in all ways, father, uncle, brother. Three heartaches, three losses. […]
Act locally, think globally was one of the mantras of my youth. Culture is a powerful tool for revolution was another. Those two ideas shaped my growth as an artist in a home with a father who wrote and mother who painted, both of whom worked straight jobs and were […]
One of the many great things about traveling is the ways it teaches one about the differences and similarities of cultures, gives us access to new foods and it opens us to, if not new ideas, different faces of old ideas, and for me in Italy, a never-ending sense of […]
Sharing my poetry in Italy was an exhilarating, humbling, exhausting and fruitful experience. This year, given the politics of the globe and the conversations that we share because it is one planet with many peoples, it was especially gratifying. The first reading was a great antidote to my still jet-lagged […]
My birthday falls on a Wednesday this year, hump-day for Monday through Friday 9-5ers. The weather they say will be an excellent Spring Day. My patio is in bloom with flowers, herbs, lemons as fruit and blossoms. So much to be thankful for. Family offering a surfeit of love and […]
Poets’ voices are ringing out around the globe calling for people to see the truth of the genocide of Palestinians and the barbarism of the assault. Asking for reason and humaneness to be put in front. The esteemed poet laureate of Berkely, California, Rafael Jesús Gonzalez, whose work I love, […]
Over the last few weeks, I have heard to many people saying that the issue of Palestine is so complicated. I have had people think I am heartless because I was not tearing my hair out over the (false) reports of beheaded babies. What is complicated about occupation? What is […]
america, australia, palestine land, settlers, and genocide: america, australia and palestine 1. and the land was covered with trees pine to oak, maple to beech to redwoods stretching upwards for thousands of years and the first peoples were the only ones there to harvest the land’s bounty they nursed reeds […]
child hands and legs and memory do you remember holding your small child hand up to your father’s large comforting hand amazed at its size compared to your vine thin fingers? do you remember making fingers and palms Into church and steeple and then opening to see all the people? […]
