It’s been awhile since the last Eclectique Interview. This will be the second interview with a poet. That’s Sarah Browning, director of D.C. Poets Against the War and Split This Rock Poetry Festival. Sarah is also author of Whiskey in the Garden of Eden (The Word Works, 2007), and co-editor of D.C. Poets Against the [...]
“Fragile” was recorded by Sting September 11, 2001 at his villa in Italy and released in the live CD “All This Time.”
I will not watch television, listen to the radio or engage in any media voyeurism for the 10th anniversary of September 11. Instead, I plan to come together with real live people coming together. It’s not just an occasion to remember, but to set a path forward from here. Here are some upcoming events in [...]
We have no symbolic life, and we are all badly in need of the symbolic life. Only the symbolic life can express the need of the soul – the daily need of the soul, mind you! And because people have no such thing, they can never step out of this mill – this awful, banal, [...]
The speeches, sermons and lectures of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. are being broadcast today on WPFW (Pacifica Radio). Strength to Love may be one of King’s most important works. I picked it up at the recommendation of a guy browsing, like me, in a Borders bookstore. I was looking in the religious section at [...]
Rev. Rob Hardies, senior minister of All Souls Church, Unitarian in Washington, DC (my member church), sent this letter from Hiroshima via our church’s e-blast list. In 1947 Rev. A. Powell Davies, then senior minister of All Souls, was so moved by the devastation and impact of the atomic bomb dropped on the city 65 [...]
A week or two after the attacks on the World Trade Center in 2001, I made a trip to NYC for a few days to attend a film market. During that trip I found myself in a small peace demonstration near NYU. Honestly, I was there to meet a friend who was asked to provide [...]
Hey Rush and Glenn – Is this the consolation prize for losing the 2016 Olympics bid? What will SNL make up of this? The Nobel Foundation has awarded President Barack Obama the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize. He is the third sitting U.S. President to win the prize. Theodore Roosevelt was the first in 1906 for [...]
REVELATIONS Bless you for your anger. For it is a sign of rising energy. Direct not to your family, waste not on your enemy. Transform the energy to versatility And it will bring you prosperity. Bless you for your sorrow For it is a sign of vulnerability. Share not with your family, direct not to [...]
I started drafting this post April 25th. Now that Washington is playing host to both Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan and President Asif Ali Zardari of Pakistan today, I guess, it’s time to pull this out. I’m swapping books with a friend – she sent me Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver [...]
