Monthly Archives: October 2020

Friday, October 30    “a billion times told lovelier” Autumn’s gusty winds;  Covid weariness across our land calling for courage and hope in the teeth of fear and anger as our national elections loom.   A good morning for story-telling and … Continue reading →

The prayer below appears on the first day of January each year.  If I am not mistaken, it is the oldest prayer I ever recite, several thousand years deep in the liturgy that helps open the first day of each … Continue reading →

Friday, October 23 “She was covered in a quilt, the Creek way. But I don’t know this kind of burial:” Poet Laureate Joy Harjo calls Tulsa her home, lives there and, in subtle ways, lives from there also. As with … Continue reading →

Wednesday, October 21 — Three Cairns – sculpture “Cairns [are] stone structures [or markers] that identify a place of great importance.” This little boy exploring a large stone egg got me wondering the way art does.  Two artists here, the … Continue reading →

Wednesday, October 21 “Summer ends now, now      barbarous in beauty the stooks arise around” Getting ready for a rainy day — each day a little shorter and the sun a little lower in the sky, sunrise a little farther to … Continue reading →

“But how can they believe me? When sometimes I don’t even believe myself. Maybe it’s time to be loud.” No strong poem is ordinary;  Maria’s surely is not ordinary either.  I am proud that the “Work Day in Hard Times” … Continue reading →

Friday, October 16 –   “And no his neighborhood is not like a war zone” We, who live and work in Detroit – 8 Mile Road down to the River – live with many perceptions of Detroit.  Jamaal May’s “There are … Continue reading →

Monday, Oct 12, 2020  –  “a mutual commitment to noticing” Over 4 decades of kinship, Connie de Biase and I lived our way into a mutual commitment to noticing. She died in Brentwood Long Island 3 years ago.  Since she left us, … Continue reading →

Wednesday, October 13 – “My city is that cup of sunshine. . .” Professor Fatemeh Keshavarz, University of Maryland’s Roshan Chair of Persian Studies, is a poet and a scholar. In September 2014, she welcomed us into our academic year … Continue reading →