a woodcut style image of a whistle gleaming with light streams and a star above it, below it the outlines of people with solidarity fists raised above their heads
i love Chicago
I miss Murray Mednick and now I always will. Thanks for your kind words and for being a mensch when it mattered.
For some reason this just makes me a little bit happy:
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I saw a couple weeks ago. Brought back younger days. I laugh AND I cried. Hi Dave.
two red star fish next to each other on the sea bed one has all of its 5 legs intact. the other has lost three legs some time in the past. There are 3 legs growing back which are much smaller than the remaining two original legs.
something other (somethingother.blog/category/cha...)
contains a number of responses to the prompt "On Elasticity" including mine: Measures of responsiveness: still quite unformed somethingother.blog/2025/08/14/m...
Imagine this: www.ayunhalliday.com/panther-city
Ayun Halliday never sleeps. Reap the benefit!
I'll be appearing here: www.thisisliveart.co.uk/events/somet... on Monday 14 July. I'll be reading something which might be called poetry. It's not very long. This event is in the east end of London, very near where I used to live. I think I'd be delighted to see you there.
Here's the New Pledge of Allegiance I Think We All Should Take
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Happy #WomensHistoryMonth to all our heroes in green!
Did you dream writing it down--or can you access it that way? (heart made of flower petals)
Noor & Mahmoud: Young Hearts Be Free Tonight, Time is on Your Side
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1 of many
for those who have granted rivers legal rights to protection, including the right to flow
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1 of many
for the tree outside my window making noise in the night when a mighty wind moves through its leaves and for the picture it draws in my mind
1 of many
for the people woken in the night by police officers pounding on their doors telling them a hole had opened in the pavement outside their homes and for the way it burrows into their consciousness teaching them something about metaphor
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I hope youβll read this piece I wrote about the insanity of Elon Musk & Utah Sen. Mike Lee attacking federal judges, yet another attack on democracy joycevance.substack.com/p/when-they-...
"The 21 activists who were arrested formed a circle on the marble floor and staged a sit-in to protest the Trump-Vance administrationβs cuts to USAID and the Presidentβs Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief and Congressβs failure to protect foreign aid programs."
Did your child lose their book collection in the Los Angeles fires? Are you a teacher at a school that lost its library or your classroom library? Whether you need one book or a whole library, we can replace your books. π
Everyone else, please boost this post so we can connect with those in need. π
This message from Eric Sevareid (from 1977) blew my socks off.
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This found on X a lovely exchange by two men on opposite sides of the "aisle" posted by Hague after the recent death of Prescott twitter.com/WilliamJHagu... I think it is totally worth the watch . . . also jolly
excerpts from our new performance: vimeo.com/1025713180?s...
THE SECOND BODY by Daisy Hildyard
Another book that wrecks me on every page. Itβs so brilliant.
I know it's over now, the election that is, but this is still a great collection. We need to remember it was not a mistake to try with Kamala Harris who does in fact have a strong voice and fine message. Fine, as in fantastic.
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This looks good. I love Daisy Hildyard's writing and the event looks interesting about time and duration. And who doesn't love Longplayer?