All You Have To Do Is Look Up – Timelapse 2017 | Video Worth Watching
Keeping with yesterday’s theme of cultivating a global perspective, here’s another video that might inspire a perspective even more encompassing than global. All you have to do is look up. [Read more…]
2017 – The United Nations Year in Review | Video Worth Watching
Think globally, act locally. To help provide that global perspective, here is the United Nations’ retrospective on last year. 2017 : The United Nations Year in Review. [Read more…]
‘Earth Is Where We Make Our Stand’: The Pale Blue Dot – Carl Sagan | Video Worth Watching
Happy New Year! Sagan’s Pale Blue Dot was inspired by a photograph taken by Voyager I in February of 1990. A great deal has happened in our small corner of the universe in the ensuing decades. Sagan’s message is still resonant–this pale blue dot is all we have at the moment. Earth is indeed the place where we make our stand. [Read more…]
Geo-Poetic Spaces: Midnight
The table is set
An imaginary feast prepared
Bottles
emptied into glasses
until gardens go to heads
It’s midnight
when dreamers are lashed from sleep
alone [Read more…]
Deathless – Ibeyi | Video Worth Watching
One year ends, a new one begins. Themes of death and rebirth, transfiguration transcending death, play out. Here is the French-Cuban twin-sisters duo, Ibeyi, with their vision: Deathless (featuring Kamasi Washington). [Read more…]
A Shovel Of Coal For the Holidays
Snowmen
scratch through windows
with stick fingers
pluck ornaments from eyes
Break into houses
with broken promises
shovel coal down throats
they can’t swallow
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Librotraficantes: Smuggling Banned Books back into Public Schools and Communities
“Arizona banned our history. We decided to make more.”
By Anna Daniels
Editor Note: So here’s some good news in 2017–a Federal judge declared Arizona’s ban on Mexican-American ethnic studies unconstitutional. The legal battle took seven years, which goes to show that sustained resistance + access to legal remedies = progressive wins. The following article was published in 2014.
If you can ban one book, why not ban a whole bunch of them? Back in 2012 the Tucson Arizona public school system embraced the more is better approach when it eliminated the Mexican American Studies Program from the K-12 curriculum.
The LA Times reported that “The Tucson school board voted to end the program after Arizona’s education chief had ruled the district in violation of a controversial state law banning classes designed for a particular ethnic group or that “promote the overthrow of the U.S. government.” The Tuscon school district stood to lose $14 million in state education funds, which no doubt squelched a more robust debate on the topic of intellectual freedom and education.
Everybody Knows – Leonard Cohen | Video Worth Watching
This last year we suffered the loss of the enigmatic and evocative voice of Leonard Cohen. Even when his material is dark and moody, there is a strength and resilience that pushes us on. Though this song may resonate with the sentiment, at times, of this last year, we go on. And so it goes. [Read more…]
Remembering ‘White Christmas’ and Irving Berlin’s Legacy at San Diego Rep
Hershey Felder’s Hershey Felder as Irving Berlin (directed by Trevor Hay) opened at the San Diego Repertory Theatre’s Lyceum Stage on December 22, 2017.
One of the pleasures of attending Felder’s shows (in which he portrays world-renowned composers such as Beethoven, Liszt, Tchaikovsky, and Bernstein) is his unique “story-telling” with the composer’s music that illuminates the relationship between his music and life. A skillful actor, Felder entertains his audience with his personification of the composer and other characters. By the end of the show, his audiences, through key events in the composer’s life, “get to know” a human being, not just a composer. [Read more…]
A Holiday Season with Tamales and Smiles
By Ernie McCray
This holiday season has been like a dream, one nice moment after another, filled with tamales and smiles.
On the day before Christmas Eve I steered my Murano to Casa Contenta Norte, the name my sidekick, Maria, and I call her house (mine is Casa Contenta Central and her house in Zihuatanejo is Casa Contenta Sur) – and suddenly I was in the midst of extended families and friends making just about every kind of tamal that can be made, by the thousands it seemed – while in the background an iPad played Christmas songs displayed dramatically in R&B style: “I-I-I am dreamin’ of a white, doop doop doop doop doop, Christmas”… the Temptations bumping “Little Drummer Boy” with a Motown sound, making you want to get down… all smiles, no frowns… [Read more…]
Burning the Christmas Greens
In William Carlos Williams’s famous poem “Burning the Christmas Greens” he notes how at “the thick of the dark moment” in “winter’s midnight” we turn to the trees because “green is a solace” that we use to “fill our need.” Thus the “living green” along with “paper Christmas bells covered with tinfoil and fastened by red ribbons” seem “gentle and good to us.” But then when their time is past we feel the relief as we clear our rooms and assign the greens to the fireplace and “in the jagged flames green to red, instant and alive.” And we stand “breathless to be witnesses as if we stood ourselves refreshed among the shining fauna of that fire.”
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