Cartoon – Traffic Mysteriously Clears up
Author: Antarctica Journal
Poem – Twenty Signs (By Rony Nair)
“You swirl and take the strait past You swing those hips of yours Your eyes they hardly break a glimpse As you kiss with all you’ve got. You turn around to go one away Your hands they’re still on mine Your eyes look away with that glazed holdout Your hands are still on mine. You tell me never […]
Read moreHeat is heading for new extremes
Heatwaves that used to arrive once every 20 years or so could become annual events by 2075 across almost two-thirds of the planet’s land surface – if humans go on burning ever more fossil fuels and releasing ever more greenhouse gases. Claudia Tebaldi, visiting scientist at the US National Center for Atmospheric Research, and Michael Wehner, senior staff scientist at […]
Read moreCarlos Ruiz Zafón Quote – Speaking To A Stranger
“Sometimes one feels freer speaking to a stranger than to people one knows. Why is that?” . . . “Probably because a stranger sees us the way we are, not as he wishes to think we are.” – Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
Read moreCartoon – Funding The Wall
Poem – I Say A Prayer For You (By Narges Rothermel)
When I pile up cut tomatoes, red onion, and radishes on top of romaine lettuce, I think of the hands that picked, cleaned, packed, and loaded them on trucks, carried them to cold rooms arranged them on shelves. As I remember stories of my father, a new comer a child-laborer in another era in another country, I say a […]
Read morePoem – LAY FIGURE (By Frank De Canio)
Lay Figure – By Frank De Canio A woman’s like a full form mannequin some tailors utilize to make a dress. For well-stitched fabric needs a frame to pin itself on to ensure that points of stress are placed to maximize a proper fit. But fantasy’s a pattern that demands deft needlework if guys are to acquit themselves with more […]
Read moreMartin Luther King Jr. Quote – Anybody Can Serve
“Everybody can be great. Because anybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve. You don’t have to know the second theory of thermodynamics in physics to serve.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
Read moreCartoon – So This Is My Fate
Oprah Winfrey – The Best of Times is Now
“The best of times is now!” – Oprah Winfrey
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