Powerful piece about the banality of evil, really.How simply trying to get by and pay the bills can cause folks to go along with a lot of stuff. We can cast stones but I'd rather say: "Welcome to the resistance"
My Last Day as an Accomplice of the Republican Party
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Sheila Carter-Jones HARD SWEETNESS Do not, my mother said, read the world only through eyes of the heart. Do not be kind without thinking eyes, my mother said, to save me from going blind. From Every Hard Sweetness Boa Editions, 2024.
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Instructions On Not Giving Up by Ada Limón More than the fuchsia funnels breaking out of the crabapple tree, more than the neighbor's almost obscene display of cherry limbs shoving their cotton candy-colored blossoms to the slate sky of spring rains, it's the greening of the trees that really gets to me. When all the shock of white and taffy, the world's baubles and trinkets, leave the pavement strewn with the confetti of aftermath, the leaves come. Patient, plodding, a green skin growing over whatever winter did to us, a return to the strange idea of continuous living despite the mess of us, the hurt, the empty. Fine then, I'll take it, the tree seems to say, a new slick leaf unfurling like a fist, I'll take it all. from The Carrying: Poems Milkweed Editions, 2018.
Ada Limón
May by Mary Oliver May, and among the miles of leafing blossoms storm out of the darkness - earth. windflowers and moccasin flowers. The bees dive into them and I too, to gather their spiritual honey. Mute and meek, yet theirs is the deepest certainty that this existence too -this sense of well-being, the flourishing of the physical body - rides near the hub of the miracle that everything is a part of, is as good as a poem or a prayer, can also make luminous any dark place on earth. From American Primitive Little Brown Back Bay, 1983
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Thank you sir!
Thank you!
Take a number: New York Magazine loves Jesse Welles, too arktimes.com/rock-candy/2...
The time is prime for more moderate leadership.
Idaho representative introduces bill to raise voting threshold to 60% for ballot initiatives idahocapitalsun.com/briefs/idaho...
You’re so brave. Brava.
Teaching
I’ve been thinking the same thing.
