When I looked for a review of the Netflix film Where the Crawdads Sing, I read that it was based on a book written by Delia Owens who is 73 years old; this is her first novel. At 75, I was immediately impressed. I went on to read a NYT’s article about Owens and her
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This book discusses how elites have co-opted important criticisms of racial capitalism to serve themselves. He defines the problem concisely and puts forth ideas on how to create politics that center global solidarity. This is a philosopher who sees that the important issues of our day cannot be solved within political boundaries. Solutions require collective
I was introduced to this author on a Democracy Now news broadcast. He is a brilliant thinker, and he looks at reparations through a very large lens. He delves deeply into the history which has led to current worldwide inequality, and he points to solutions that get at the root of some of the problems
I recently subscribed to the website Waking Up to aid me in my mindfulness meditation practice—let me emphasize the word ‘practice.’ This book is mentioned several times as a classic work published in 1961 by the mystic-philosopher Douglas Harding. The book is a primer (a short 123 pages) on how to realize one’s true nature
Plath’s poem ‘Words Heard, By Accident, Over The Phone’ was so powerful–full of raw anguish–that it motivated me to learn more about her life. Clark’s biography is over 900 pages long, so it took me quite awhile to finish it. This tome may contain too much detail for some readers. The biography kept me interested
While this novel is over 500 pages long, it covers only ten days in the lives of three barely adult young men, Emmett, Duchess, and Wooly and Emmett’s younger brother Billy, as they travel east along the Lincoln Highway. When Emmett is dropped off at the defunct family farm in Nebraska by the juvenile detention
I attended a zoom workshop on hope at Upaya with Johanna Macy on Sunday. It made me ponder the Buddhist 4 immeasurables: Loving Kindness, Compassion (being present to suffering), Shared Joy, (being present to joy) and Equanimity. I believe all are necessary to stay sane and effective in times of crisis. A current crises for
Multi-talented Elizabeth Alexander shines as a poet, educator, scholar and cultural advocate. Her new book The Trayvon Generation is showcase for her talents. She names the young people growing up in the last twenty years the Trayvon Generation. She movingly describes the costs and hopes that come out of the last two decades of highly
Vanessa Nakate is a young climate activist from Uganda. When she became aware of the climate crisis and its disastrous impact upon her country, she decided she had to do something. She became internationally known at the 2020 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. She was one of five international delegates alongside Greta Thunberg. The
This is a memoir that exemplifies the phrase coined by the feminist Carol Hanisch in an essay she wrote in 1969, “The Personal is Political.” The essay was in response to criticism of consciousness raising groups. Moore spent a good deal of his early life thinking that the his personal circumstances and the personal circumstances
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