Buddhist and Baptist Walkers For Peace…Singing Protest Songs…Tilling Seeds of Love…Celebrating Puerto Rico…Piano Keys to the Sky
stay, Valentine, stay / No Kings rally end of March / strength grows in numbers
remember their names: Everlasting Poetry—Renée Good / Intensive Care—Alex Pretti
twenty twenty-six / heapings of heart and humor / full steam straight ahead
indie news for truth / songs and poems for beauty / lizard kiss for love
Hoagie and hardball no-hitters. Khanna and Grijalva no-quitters.
times are a-changin’ / turning the page on this year / more love and more joy
The same omens that alarmed Lincoln petrify us now. October 18th protests—November 4th elections—60 years of Neil Young. “There’s a full moon risin’ / Let’s go dancin’ in the light.”
Abraham Lincoln: “We must rise—with the occasion. As our case is new, some must think anew, and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.”
Well-worth the time-travel hearing from 13th century Persian poet Rumi that “Your Laughter Turns the World to Paradise.” A budding flower cuddles in the ground and “its hidden smile opens to a laugh that / lasts a lifetime.” Like grateful athletes, we laugh whether winning or losing. Love and laughter sing a duet: “I have a heart of sunlight.”
Judges hold the line. We the people come together. Bullies slither.
We love turnarounds. Steady as we go.
We’re present—together now.
Post a sign. Ask a question. Run for office.
When Sarah Inama started teaching world civilization four years ago at an Idaho middle school, she hung a sign in her classroom featuring hands of different skin tones with hearts in their palms, highlighted by these words scripted in varying colors: “Everyone Is Welcome Here.”
We sit together. Jane Fonda and JB Pritzger deliver joint addresses for everyone everywhere. Their grasp of this dangerous moment and their abilities to communicate it—their mutual belief in the power of kindness and empathy to both endure and defeat tyranny. Fonda: “We are in our documentary moment. It is not a rehearsal…. So let’s be brave.” Pritzger: “The root that tears apart your house’s foundation begins as a seed…. Seeds of Nazis started with everyday Germans looking for someone to blame.”
The beauty of human hands. Hearing is believing. His fingers and voice in flight, guitarist Lindsey Buckingham vows that he’s “Never Going Back Again.” Hey now, enough, he reiterates, “been down one time / been down two time.” Haven’t we been down one time, now two times, too? Want to find out what it means to win? “Yeahhhhhhhh.” Stevie Nicks blends her voice with Buckingham’s. Yeah.
hints that springtime nears
democracy calls our names
as we swim birds sing
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Marietta McCarty is a New York Times bestselling author, philosopher, and speaker. She defines philosophy as “the art of clear thinking," and she invites everyone into a celebration of good living marked by simplicity, gratitude, and joy.
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planet earth dwellers / forgive us our trespasses / we will right this ship
Marching Forward—Pete Buttigieg at Selma and Protestors Everywhere
Getting the Scoop—Aaron Parnas and Project Salt Box
Art for the Heart—“Sinners” and Olivia Dean sing, Mary Oliver laughs
bowing to beauty / oh-oh-oh, mm-hm-mm (hey!) / April’s a’flaunting