Articles from the bimonthly e-zine
11/27/2016 Toes pointing into black depths—face and arms arch, I scream inwardly—air bubbles blowing past my ears. Ten thousand things I want to shout, twelve to do. Dance, laugh, and pray—to ease the shame, To bear the distaste inside my throat. Cry and lie down by a cool rock—grasping dirt, Stroking moss,…
In an effort to cope with the anger and fear aroused in me by the election, I have turned to Holocaust literature for models of strength in crisis. I’m now reading the memoir And There Was Light by Jacques Lusseyran, a Frenchman who was blinded in a schoolyard accident when he was seven years old,…
On the morning of November 9, 2016, people around Planet Earth awoke to the realization that Donald J. Trump had been elected President of the United States. For some this was the answer to a prayer, for others the foreboding of impending disaster. Some were confused and dismayed, still others were just relieved that a…
Donald Trump as our next president! I think I woke up the day after the election in an alternate universe! I keep on hoping tomorrow it will be different, but no, this is the reality we live in now. My biggest fear is for Earth. Even without Trump, so much is endangered, so much is…
After the cruelty and violence of his campaign, the worst I have experienced in my lifetime, I still feel aghast, unbelieving that my country chose Donald Trump to be its president-elect. I feel that so many barriers to protect civility and decency, diversity and justice have been breached. The result is that no one on…
I have, I suppose, more emotional feelings about your election legacy than most Aussies. I lived in the US of A twice during impressionable years of my life. Now I am eighty, very healthy in body and mind, and I feel it important to say something! In 1960 I lived in a black ghetto in…
I’m considering the past presidential election in USA and the democratic crisis we undergo in Brasil. Both, I take, are determined by a capitalist economic model where power locally and internationally is the most pervading criteria adopted as its core element—its concept and bureaucratic management strategy. I am foreseeing, imagining, a basic dialogue comparing interconnected…
As Norman Cousins wrote in the 1980’s in the introduction to Earth at Omega, “Global civilization must come into its own [in these latter days of the 20th century]or mankind’s magnificent experiment in self-awareness and socialization will abort in titanic catastrophe. A new organism is in the process of being born and will be born…
After the 2016 election, I found myself going back over my own writings at the time of previous elections. My interest was always in who “we the people” really are and how we are striving (so imperfectly) toward a “more perfect union.” DECEMBER 2000: Two Consciences At millennium’s end, the hotly disputed Election of…