Category Archives: In the neighborhood

RFK on MLK and the Charleston Shooting

Yet we seemingly tolerate a rising level of violence that ignores our common humanity and our claims to civilization alike. We calmly accept newspaper reports of civilian slaughter in far off lands. We glorify killing on movie and television screens and call it entertainment. We make it easy for men of all shades of sanity to acquire weapons and ammunition they desire. Continue reading →

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Each of Us, or Anarchy

And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, • Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born? Continue reading →

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Today’s bits turned into poems

one calls then another •
two owls or three in late May •
other birds sotto. Continue reading →

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News Flash

saw my first snapping turtle crossing the road (and she’d made it!) tonight.  Your regularly scheduled programming will continue after this brief message. 

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Mid-May, weather and forecast

In case you were thinking •
that summer had arrived Continue reading →

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