The only way to make peace with your neighbors is to make peace with your neighbors. I believe that if, over the last 50 years, more people around the world had seen the American flag decal on schools, hospitals, roads and so forth — as opposed to military installations and other material support for regimes in their countries which they themselves know not to be democratic — then we would […]
Archive | August, 2019
What’s love got to do with it | MOON Shine
“Politics is personal. There’s a level of maturation that occurs when you allow yourself to look beyond yourself into a wider field of collective concern. It keeps us infantilized when we don’t address larger political social and economic issues. Anybody who’s looking the other way and just hoping somebody else is handling it, is not dwelling at the level of seriousness that we need to be at as women and […]
Charles Joseph Albert | Monsieur de Beaugdan’s Engagement
Louis de Beaugdan shifted uneasily in his desk as he looked through his neat, patent-leather Daytimer. A wave of nausea battered against the rotted wood pier of his being but he could not pinpoint the source. Another glance at his watch: two more hours before the office closed…. He sighed with resignation. He would bide his time. He was a fonctionnaire, a bureaucrat, and what was two hours of inert […]
Jenean McBrearty | Hearts and trains
Except for the spindly woman in the yellow pantsuit dragging a wheeled suitcase draped with a purse, San Diego’s Santa Fe station was deserted. Occasionally, a pre-dawn breeze gusted through the open doors bringing with it the faint scent of sea salt and street steam. Michael watched the stranger grimace, but he didn’t find the wait unpleasant. The pungent odors, the echo from the domed roof, the red cement slab […]
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