Shake the Dust   Anis Mojgani This is for the fat girls This is for the little brothers This is for the schoolyard wimps and the childhood bullies that tormented them For the former prom queen and for the milk crate ball players For the nighttime cereal eaters And for the retired elderly Walmart store front door greeters Shake the dust This is for the benches and the people sitting upon them For the bus drivers who drive a million broken hymns For the men who have to hold down three jobs simply to hold up their children For the nighttime schoolers And for ..read more

The beginning of the solar eclipse NASA/Aubrey Gemignan Miracles Walt Whitman Why, who makes much of a miracle? As to me I know of nothing else but miracles, Whether I walk the streets of Manhattan, Or dart my sight over the roofs of houses toward the sky, Or wade with naked feet along the beach just in the edge of         the water,      Or stand under trees in the woods,      Or talk by day with any one I love, or sleep in the bed at                 night with any one I love ..read more

​“It is always worth itemising happiness, there is so much of the other thing in a life, you had better put down the markers for happiness while you can.” ~Sebastian Barry, The Secret Scripture ..read more

Richard III Reinterred 2015 CE ..read more

Ash Wednesday T. S. Eliot If the lost word is lost, if the spent word is spent If the unheard, unspoken Word is unspoken, un heard; Still is the unspoken workd, the Word unheard, The Word without a word, the Word within The world and for the world; And the light shone in the darkness and Against the Word the unstilled world still whirled About the centre of the Silent Word ..read more

Let There Be Peace on Earth Song by Vince Gill Let there be peace on earth And let it begin with me Let There Be Peace on Earth The peace that was meant to be With God as our Father Brothers all are we Let me walk with my brother In perfect harmony. Let peace begin with me Let this be the moment now. ​ With ev'ry step I take Let this be my solemn vow To take each moment and live Each moment in peace eternally Let there be peace on earth And let it begin with me photograph: John Galt; of sculpture: Hank Willis Thomas ..read more

Paul Gauguin, Breton Village in the Snow – ©Public Domain ..read more

“Hurry,” by Marie Howe, We stop at the dry cleaners and the grocery store    and the gas station and the green market and    Hurry up honey, I say, hurry,    her blue jacket unzipped and her socks rolled down.    Where do I want her to hurry to? To her grave?    To mine? Where one day she might stand all grown?    Today, when all the errands are finally done, I say to her,    Honey I'm sorry I keep saying Hurry—    you walk ahead of me. You be the mother.    ..read more

"A Christmas Carol in Art" Cambridge University Library Special Collections ​ ​“For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child himself.”    Charles Dickens ..read more

"Small groups of humans turning off their phones and paying attention for half an hour in their local park is obviously not, in itself, the revolution that will bring the attention frackers to their knees. But it offers a model we can build on, of people coming together to decide (and dispute!) how the world is, and how we think it ought to be. That is the practice of freedom — the essence of democracy — and the high purpose of education itself."  ~  D. Graham Burnett, Alyssa Loh and Peter Schmidt (Mr. Burnett, Ms. Loh and Mr. Schmidt are members of the  Frie ..read more