Beautiful Pit Viper, 2011 from Serpentine by Mark Latia I couldn’t take my eyes off them, from the spade-shaped wedge of head to the tapered tail, and all that sinuous muscle in between. These predatory geometries made me want to stroke the snake-laden pages. As Mr. Laita writes: “Their beauty…
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Mother’s Day Proclamation by Julia Ward Howe*, 1870 The First Mother’s Day proclaimed in 1870 by Julia Ward Howe was a passionate demand for disarmament and peace. Arise, then, women of this day! Arise, all women who have hearts, whether your baptism be that of water or tears! Say firmly:…
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“… Rise like Lions after slumber In unvanquishable number – Shake your chains to earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you – Ye are many – they are few.” ~from The Mask of Anarchy, Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1819 (8)
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The Peace of Wild Things By Wendell Barry When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his…
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Keeping Quiet by Pablo Neruda Now we will count to twelve and we will all keep still. This one time upon the earth, let’s not speak any language, let’s stop for one second, and not move our arms so much. It would be a delicious moment, without hurry, without locomotives,…
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQ-XVTzBMvQ (7)
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The Last Poet http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGaRtqrlGy8 (12)
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Findings ~ From Harper’s Darkness lets stressed green algae produce hydrogen, restores the vision of amblyopic kittens, and makes dogs four times as disobedient…The obscuration of the ocean’s infrasonic rumblings in Jersey Hill, New York, may cause homing pigeons to lose their way. Dung beetles in a planetarium will, in…
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