September, 2023
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Free Palestine!
I find that this piece entitled “I will not look away” – with words which have been thoughtfully composed by Caitlin Johnstone and Tim Foley – is particularly powerful and inspiring. It is a brilliant piece of spoken word, which is delivered over an accompanying backdrop of Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata which serves to further drive home the melancholy feeling for the tragic subject matter.
Bernie Sanders – 2023
This speech was disappointing – Bernie in NH telling it as he sees it in a 40+ minute video in which he sounds like a socialist with a class based analysis but acts like a liberal Democrat who sees corporate greed and the concentration of wealth in the hands of a few as the cause of the problems the US should “take on.” Buthe offers nothing “strategic,” other than that “we” must “demand” fairer taxes, a raised min wage, breakup monopolies, “fight” for medicare for all, “take on” the greed of insurance and pharm, “transfer away” from fossil fuels, “overturn” CU, etc. Nothing on the war economy/mentality. Nothing on racism or indigeneity. and nothing on strategy. All Bernie can say in essence is “let the masses know that the Dems are on their side.”
BERNIE SANDERS
The Aquinnah Powwow on Noepe aka Martha’s Vineyard
In 2023 I attended my first powwow on Noepe, held by the Aquinnah Tribe of the Wampanoag Nation, occupants of Noepe probably for 1000’s of years before the Pilgrim’s occupation and conquest. And inasmuch as I haven’t gone yet, and I’m only hoping that the Great Spirit will grant my wish to attend, I will write about this subsequently.
Pssst – Did you know I could see the future?
Wellfleet – Another Universe
I visit White Crest Beach with the magnificent Pearl on the day before Labor Day, 2023. People are snow-boarding down the cliffs on their surfboards. Others are riding down the cliff on bicycles, some holding surfboards, and one even holding a surfboard and a baby in his right arm.
I had a very nice encounter with a beautiful, deaf, pitbull, named Steve, and with two beautiful Two Spirit women who did not know what the Tet Offensive was or who Leonard Peltier was.
SHORT TRIPS
Maine
I was recently on a trip to Maine that reminded me how absolutely beautiful the state was at a that too distant future date I will try to describe that recent voyage, and its components which included a visit to the graveside of a friend and was very touching.
SHORT TRIPS
Short Trips
Venturing forth upon voyages and various viewings.
SHORT TRIPS
Women
Celebrating the power, beauty, wisdom, leadership of all women, and of “womanly” aspects. Okay, okay, maybe some regretable brutality too.
WOMEN
Indigenous Matters
I work at honoring and protecting indigenous cultures worldwide, particularly in North America, a.k.a. Turtle Island,` and particularly in Massachusetts, named for the Massachusett People, one of the indigenous nations that occupied the current state that bears its name. I wish to walk the talk and not just talk to talk of restoration of rights and preservation of culture, knowledge, and belief. As the child of immigrants and invaders now living on the unceded land of the Nauset Tribe of the Wampanoag Nation on Cape Cod I hereby declare: