“It’s been a long, a long time coming / But I know a change gon’ come”

Originally posted on Art of Quotation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5zDRtEC0x0 “A Change Is Gonna Come” Songwriter: Sam Cooke, 1964 I was born by the river…

Sunday Morning – A Poem

Originally posted on Nicholas Andriani Rankin:
Sunday Morning BY WALLACE STEVENS      I Complacencies of the peignoir, and lateCoffee and oranges in a sunny chair,And the green freedom of a…

“There was a dispute this week about whose street this is. Mayor Bowser wanted to make it abundantly clear that this is DC’s street and to honor demonstrators who (were) peacefully protesting on Monday evening.”

Originally posted on Art of Quotation:
https://youtu.be/mKu0QZgihj4 ? source: NBC News WASHINGTON — District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser on Friday had…

The Economy and Me

Originally posted on Starfish Sutra:
It’s a burden we all lug around, yet imaginary so it’s weightless, and held oh so fast, so it fetters and constrains. It is universally…

“I’m resigning from my job… Facebook, complicit in the propagation of weaponized hatred, is on the wrong side of history”

Originally posted on Art of Quotation:
Software Engineer Timothy Aveni, resigns from Facebook in protest (twitter post June, 2020)

“People say they don’t have time to cook, yet… we have found an extra two hours a day for the internet.”

Originally posted on Art of Quotation:
“People say they don’t have time to cook, yet in the last few years we have…

“an American, a Negro… two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.”

Originally posted on Art of Quotation:
“One ever feels his twoness – an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled…

“Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other.”

Originally posted on Art of Quotation:
“Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the…

“Either America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States”

Originally posted on Art of Quotation:
“Either America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States” — W.E.B. Dubois, American,…

“ Texas Supreme Court votes remotely to stop Texas voters from voting remotely. “

Originally posted on Art of Quotation:
Texas Supreme Court votes remotely to stop Texas voters from voting remotely. Robert Reich, twitter post…

Social distancing – Day 66

Originally posted on Parallel Lines:
Auringonlasku maalasi tarinan hyvästä päivästä päätökseen. Sain tänään olla mukana Äidin kuntoutukseen kuuluvassa kotikäynnissä fysio- ja toimintaterapeuttien kanssa, jossa perehdyttiin miten pyörätuolissa pärjää kotioloissa ja…

Estuary of Flowers