Cartoon – Right To Carry
Author: Antarctica Journal
Poem – Cold Water Raining between Them (By Donal Mahoney)
Cold Water Raining between Them Annie has a nice washing machine now but she remembers the one her mother had with the wringer, the old-fashioned kind. Her mother took in washing and when the washing machine would break Annie would become half the wringer. Mother would hold the waist of wet pants and Annie would grip the cuffs and they’d […]
Read moreCartoon – The Last Giving
May Sarton Quote – Solitude Is The Richness Of Self
“Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.” – May Sarton
Read moreCartoon – Baptism
Jay Asher Quote – Everything Affects Everything
“You don’t know what goes on in anyone’s life but your own. And when you mess with one part of a person’s life, you’re not messing with just that part. Unfortunately, you can’t be that precise and selective. When you mess with one part of a person’s life, you’re messing with their entire life. Everything . . . affects everything.” […]
Read morePoem – Home is Where…. (By Gary Beck)
Home is Where…. Our masters no longer reside in fortified castles that dominate the lives of all who dwell nearby, nor in grandiose palaces that dazzle the eyes of servants, the envious, seeking crumbs from tables of abundance, not in great mansions that people pass with respect, curious about hidden lives sheltered by prosperity far removed from daily toil […]
Read moreNo rain forest beef
Rio De Janeiro No rain forest beef: Hoping to prevent Amazon deforestation, Brazilian grocery stores say they will no longer sell beef from cattle raised on land clear-cut from the rain forests. Brazil is one of the world’s largest producers and exporters of beef, and an area of the Amazon larger than France has been cleared to create pastureland for […]
Read moreQuote – Gratitude… The Greatest of Virtues
“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, it is the parent of all the others” – Cicero
Read morePoem – Inward Images (By Robert Beveridge)
Inward Images Your hair hangs thick and tangled over the soft cheek its ridge of bone smoothed by years of smiles the blonde ends brush your nose, glis- ten with perspiration, cover the curve of half your lips so set, so strident determined in desire one liquid green eye imparts immediacy infects me with sexiness brazen stare […]
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