Every Good Morning

Mr. Trump’s Brutality: He Is Calling Forth The Storm: Post 427 Published on March 11th, 2016 “Be there, will be wild,” Trump tweeted on December 19 in reference to the protest planned for January 6 at the Capitol. Minutes before the mob stormed the Capitol, Trump told them, “Everyone will soon be marching from here to the Capitol Building.” “We’re coming for you,” shouted Donald Trump Jr. to the mob minutes before they sacked the Capitol. “So let’s have a trial by combat!” shouted Rudy Giuliani to […]

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. […]