Every Good Morning

For the next 15 days Trump is the concern because he has the power of the Presidency behind him and willing sycophants around him ready to say Yes to anything he suggests. After that, his power gone, he will remain a threat to the country because of the loyalty of his supporters who have, person by person, accepted the transformation of their hearts and become fascists. Let me define the […]

It is a grey New Year’s day and more rain is on the wind, but the dogs have run and run in the fields, the room is warm, Ella Fitzgerald is singing in the kitchen where I am writing this, and the house is filled with the aroma of simmering beef. 2020 is gone, and in 19 days ‘the rough beast will slouch’ towards Florida leaving hundreds of thousands of […]

Right now, during this not quite aftermath (or only the end of the beginning) of our four years of butchered truth and smug corruption, the best artistic expressions take me back to the individual in all of his or her complexity, striving to make the world a place where human beings make beautiful things with their bodies and voices. Beauty is more than a relief from monsters and their works. […]

A middle-aged woman walked into the store on Saturday, a long time customer, usually polite, one who has recently borne her own measure of sickness, and when she asked for a coffee and to sit and drink, we said that yes, coffee is fine, what would you like?, but no, the Virus causes us to ask you to drink it outside, she said, “Oh what is this? What are we […]