Cocklebur Time Again
Aside from our age’s particular flavor of the culture we are all indoctrinated with, there are two major ‘cockleburs’ embedded in most of us: our family and our work. Family covers so wide a scope as...
View ArticleToshi Seeger passes away.
Kingston Daily Freeman Toshi Seeger was an activist and organizer, mother and wife, film-maker and manager. Sometimes the right partner can make all the difference. Without her, there’d be a lot less...
View ArticleOnly The Good Die Young
And for Pete Seeger, 94 was too young: Pete Seeger, a 20th-century troubadour who inspired and led a renaissance of folk music in the United States with his trademark five-string banjo and songs of...
View ArticleHow to bring FINE ART to the people
A brilliant video marketing campaign. Street performance art at its best. In April, 2013, the newly-refurbished Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, Holland, decided to celebrate the return to the museum of...
View ArticleThe Oilsands-Inspired Creation that Looms in Washington
The Tyee, By Andrew Nikiforuk, Winnipegger Mia Feuer’s art reflects the ‘sculptural’ transformation of Alberta’s landscape. Reviewers alternatively call the Washington, D.C. exhibit dystopian, eerily...
View ArticleBeautiful art expressing an ugly world
Isaac Cordal is famous for tackling big political issues through a tiny medium. In his series “Waiting for Climate Change,” Cordal created a set of ephemeral and partially submerged installations to...
View Article“It’s Been a Good Run…”
h/t Tina BillMoyers.com– The third and final year of Moyers & Company comes to an end on January 2 and I am writing to assure you that this time it’s the real deal. You may recall that we had...
View ArticleThomas Merton Listening to the Rain
This, via Monksworks, from Thomas Merton: Let me say this before rain becomes a utility that they can plan and distribute for money. By “they” I mean the people who cannot understand that rain is a...
View ArticleHardwired sexually?
Julian writes on” The Public Sins of Men:the private sins of women.” ” Yes, social conservatives seem constantly to underestimate women in a sense. They do not afford them full moral agency, and are...
View ArticleQue Sera, Sera
Greece is rebelling in the streets and the halls of government. Spaniards are following suit in the streets – government’s not onboard but it may not matter. The Euro is tottering and NATO is a lot...
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