The French showed the way.
It’s Bastille Day. A day for the people to rise up, free the prisoners, and dismantle an instrument of an…
Author: scribbler
Who knew that the Dàodéjīng had a good pick-up line.
When Anne Mei and I were in Seattle a few weeks ago, we went to the Elliott Bay Book Company….
An optimist must know what a sad place the world can be.
If you’re afraid to mention or hear about death, dying, or the dead, don’t talk to me about hope. If…
Today we remember the beginning of “a dark, somber, insane nightmare.”
June 26, 1941. The first deaths in what became an all-out pogrom in Iasi, Romania. According to Radu Ioanid’s story…
Has anybody seen the choir?
Has anybody seen the choir? I want to preach to the converted I want to see them rising up Don’t…
Keep on moving forward.
The character of a movement manifests itself in its music. And the music was powerful today on the Mall in…
A June day for dying
The rain of last night and the clouds of this morning cleared by the time we lined up on Broad…
Listening to RFK’s last train ride.
Robert Kennedy was killed on June 6, 1968. We were living in a small village on the eastern slopes of…
They did it again!
Week Four in the Poor People’s Campaign in Trenton, NJ. Returning to the State House Annex, we began our…
In NJ you can get arrested just for thinking about civil disobedience
Last week the cops were ready and waiting for us. This week they were ready, waiting, and arrested people just…