A Gift of Peace
Ten years on, Muhammad Ali still speaks—through a painting of the United Nations headquarters he once created.
Everyday, as I pass by it, I am reminded that peace is forged by those who refuse to accept violence as the final word.
Read my op-ed on @AJEnglish: https://t.co/jYmAFqFiBx
Yesterday reading Glück’s Wild Iris in a cedar grove in Monkton drizzle around a softwood campfire w/ a dozen+ teachers, & today, @bloodsigns’ Emily Dickinson poem adds gorgeous reverb, another beveled-edgy mirror.
@biancastone Holy Wow! What a confession and a mirror… it makes me long for the Pitkin-fueled days of Goddard and a full campus of self-initiators (facilitated & empowered) learning how to turn life and literature into art and wisdom through lived experience…
We have more income and wealth inequality in America than ever before.
Meanwhile, we rank 34th in the world in childhood poverty, 20% of our seniors live on $15,000 a year or less and 800,000 Americans are homeless.
We need a fundamental change in our national priorities NOW.
Anyone with a 2026 PoemCity poem in a Montpelier window is cordially invited to come read it at Kellogg Hubbard Library, Wed 4/29 at 6pm! Read! Lend yr ears! Happy NatPoMo! BonMot is MCing and recording live. Cookies and snacks too!
Anyone with a 2026 PoemCity poem in a Montpelier window is cordially invited to come read it at Kellogg Hubbard Library, Wed 4/29 at 6pm! Read! Lend yr ears! Happy NatPoMo! BonMot is MCing and recording live. Cookies and snacks too!
RI Poet laureate Tina Cane today on BonMot @ 5pm on https://t.co/W50T9ZPxAu, recorded live last week at Kellogg Hubbard library. Lend your ears. Thanks @VtHumanities
“Meditate, you know; take drugs, if that helps; do psychotherapy; watch your dreams; find out who you are. That’s the only possible way you’re going to be able to both successfully make a living and save your soul.”
—@FreeWillAstro in Issue 153
https://t.co/cyOnYIHdM2