Monthly Archives: August 2021

August 27, 2021

Hall of Mirrors

By DP

Within the cacophony of ill-informed, partisan and self-serving punditry relating to events in Afghanistan, we urge careful consideration of several lucid posts by Sarah Chayes, distinguished author of Thieves of State: Why Corruption Threatens Global Security and On Corruption In America — And What Is at Stake.

An excerpt from the most recent post below; image is by artist Kabir Mokamel, whose blast wall art (dating from 2015) scrutinized widespread corruption among both Afghan officials and foreign “contractors”.

 

 

 

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August 21, 2021

Listen To the Trees

By DP

We have recently returned from a Maine island sanctuary & reading retreat where we devoured books and local food in more or less equal abundance. Among the books, we highly recommend To Speak For the Trees by the brave and brilliant Diana Beresford-Kroeger.

We relay the introduction from the publisher’s website below, with a single image added by DP.

 

 

 

Tree Radio

 

 

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August 13, 2021

Let Us Shake the Amnesia

By DP

During these fading days of summer, we offer the following powerful passages from an essay by Lyla June Johnson, an Indigenous public speaker, artist, scholar and community organizer of Diné (Navajo), Tsétsêhéstâhese (Cheyenne) and European lineages from Taos, New Mexico. Her songs, poem and essays focus on Indigenous rights, supporting youth, traditional land stewardship practices and healing inter-generational and inter-cultural trauma. Images added by DP.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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August 6, 2021

Destroyer of Worlds

By DP

This week, we interrupt our stream of dispatches from inside the climate emergency to commemorate those killed in the entirely unnecessary bombings of Hiroshima (August 6, 1945) and Nagasaki (August 9, 1945).

 

ATOMIC BOMB DOME IN 2021

 

A-bomb blast center
no human shadows at all
the winter full moon


                                                —Shigemoto Yasuhiko     

 

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“My God, what have we done?”
—Enola Gay co-pilot, Robert Lewis

 

FIRESTORM PAINTING BY SURVIVOR

 

“This is the greatest thing in history.”
                                 — U.S. President Harry Truman

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