So the last will be first, and the first will be last Today I want to talk about the Bible, and I imagine some of you will be like, ah finally I love the Bible and some of you might be like ah I don’t know about this. Either
Don't miscast the role of activists as a source of power to influence elections instead of in the pursuit of ideals Talk began almost immediately after election night about the fate of the Democratic Party and to what extent it was a success or a failure, and who
'Finding ourselves here, witnesses to each other’s tenderness, which, this moment, is fury' Well it has been quite an exhausting week or month or insert period of time here. It is looking increasingly certain that Joe Biden will be the next president and 45 is on his
The Uninhabitable Beach House Mitch goes for a swim, from The Beach House (2019). Welcome to the second annual Haunted Palace, the spooktacular Halloween edition of this newsletter, which should give you a good scare. You can read last year’s edition here. Also, there will be spoilers for the
Climate action, we were told, would be distant, gradual, and painless Butterflies and moths,.London & Edinburgh,T.C. & E.C. Jack[1910]. I was going to write about something else today but I was reading about the debate last night and there was some climate talk that actually
A conversation with Tamiko Beyer. 'Poetry is this moment where you can actually start to shift reality through language.' From Birds of America (1827) by John James Audubon (1785 - 1851 ). Tamiko Beyer is a poet, writer, activist, and communications strategist. Her 2013 poetry collection We Come Elemental
Those at the top will follow, because the world has changed around them Autumn, Helmer Osslund, 1907 Well, we seem to really be in the shit now folks, hold on tight. We did a lot of election talk last week and there is some a little further down there don’
We knew it was going to be like this, but that doesn’t mean we are short on surprises A history of the birds of Europe :.London :Published by the Author,1871-1881.. I don’t know what to say about Donald Trump having COVID, and there are not enough cliches
'Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice' The butterflies of the British Isles /.London :F. Warne,1906. Well it has been another rough week and I will link to related stories below but I wanted to get down some more thoughts on Where Do
The willow submits to the wind and prospers until one day it is many willows—a wall against the wind Key-west Dove from Birds of America (1827) by John James Audubon, etched by William Home Lizars. I was talking in therapy the other day about anger and how it can
Things that were once freak occurrences steadily become routine events, and then one day, here we are Crows at Twilight, Shibata Zeshin 柴田是真 (1807-1891), Arthur M. Sackler Gallery https://asia.si.edu/object/S1997.72/ Well every month it seems some fresh serving of hell is delivered up as a
The lie that’s told to us over and over again that without oppression we are monsters Monograph of the Paradiseidae, or birds of paradise and Ptilonorhynchidae, or bower-birds.London :H. Sotheran & Co.,1891-98. CW: There’s a brief reference to sexual violence in this one. When we talk