Nullius in verba
In an economic system that criminalizes poverty, an America in which one in eight citizens are officially and actually poor with no hope of climbing a ladder to prosperity that has no rungs, a nation in which greed is canonized so the elite have a special elevator to paradise on earth, a country in which […]
After a year like 2017 many of us are hell bent to do better. What went wrong? How can we start to repair the wreckage of our national moral culture wrought by the sectarianism and secessionist policies of the sons and daughters of the Confederacy disguised in the hooded robes of so-called fiscal conservatism? How […]
The stars were his; he’d breathed them in. The Milky Way inside was all around him, a respiration of the night. He had seen the Otherside without idea, more beautiful behind its veils of meaning, invisibly far but known like the stone in his pocket. Who had let him in? Why now at the stub […]
FIVE THINGS TO DO WHEN THERE’S NOTHING LEFT TO BE DONE Christmas 2017 by V.B. Price For Rini this Christmas and forever. *** We have heard the children say – Gentle children, whom we love – Long ago, on Christmas Day, Came a message from above. Still, as Christmas-tide comes round, They remember it again […]
When President Trump and various other marauding Republicans tore the heart out of two national monuments in Utah two weeks ago — stripping the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase Escalante of millions of acres for coal mining — and began the process of opening the coastal planes of the National Arctic Wild Life Refuge to […]
The New York Times (NYT) ran a piece last weekend entitled “The Treasures of Chaco Canyon Are Threatened by Drilling.” When the NYT writes about something people perk up and listen. But, of course, fracking around Chaco has been a hotly contested issue for years, and local people have been exerting all the pressure and […]
“What Are We Fighting For?” That’s the inspiring question High Country News (HCN) writer Brooke Larson asked in her prize-winning essay in HCN’s November 13th edition. The piece got her readers to think about fundamentals. What are we resisting? What do we want to achieve as citizens who champion a respectful stewardship of the environment? […]