Change of plans! This poem will not be our friend’s birthday poem after all. So it is going out to someone else, with the following ink and water color painting by Pinka Das, from Kolkata, India. The inkling Some things just must be said Some things just say themselves If only for a mouth I just need to […]
Monthly Archives: February 2012
Seeds Arrived and Garden Plans
Most of my seedy order arrived last week. After a lot of dawdling, I finally tidied up the basement so I can start growing. Two years ago, when I was really on top of the garden, I had already started. I am also thinking about getting a garden plot at our Community Gardens. I’ll put something less […]
350 Poems – Poem 4
I wrote this poem sitting in the reading room in the Weston library, where a friend brought me after a brisk walk in the fresh February air. It is to go with an illustration by DH and Amie and will be a birthday present for a dear friend. The inkling Some things just must be […]
Thoughts on Activism and Futility
I’m, uhm, a little behind on my magazine subscriptions. I subscribe to only two: YES! magazine (quarterly) and Orion magazine (6/year), and still I can’t keep up. But today I finally got a chance to pick up the Spring 2011 issue of YES! And there I read the column by Colin Beavan, aka, No Impact […]
Riot for January 2012 – Month 39
This is the Riot for the month of January 2012 for the three of us. My summary of the first three years is here. Edson fixed the calculator: all go tither to crunch those numbers! Gasoline. Calculated per person. Our bugbear again. DH’s shuttle to work wasn’t running because of the holidays, so he had […]