Some of my work in Art Soup Collective Gallery in El Paso. #paintings #mixedmedia

"What Coltrane and Chekhov represent is how indispensable the non-market values of love, care, concern, service to others, intimacy and gentleness are to all of us who move from womb to tomb, pursuing any sense of meaning beyond money making and profit taking." -Cornel West

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Over coffee on the 26th. She meant "yesterday," of course.

"The American Dream:" A Course Syllabus open.substack.com/pub/joycecar...

CHRISTMAS NAP CLUB! tired of book clubs that require keeping your eyes open for extended periods of time? Zanche has launched the first-ever CHRISTMAS NAP CLUB which began on Christmas Eve & will continue until New Year's Day. (yes, you can join any time. don't even hurry.)

Watch Patti Smith’s New Tribute to the Avant-Garde Poet Antonin Artaud

new(ish) Substack posting~~

Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Jeremy Nguyen. #NewYorkerCartoons

The Trump administration has sought to move away from Housing First, a once-bipartisan model for distributing homelessness aid that has guided federal work for a generation. Here is what the evidence says about its programs.

When the history of this cruel era is written, the shame should be no less than the shame we now feel about the roundups and detention of Japanese Americans in World War II. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-brazen-cruelty-of-the-trump-regime

shozo ozaki

'Write me of hope and love, and hearts that endured.' ~Emily Dickinson

Good morning of Christmas Eve. Berg on the radio! xo ***** “Always, the path unwinds through lemony sun pools and pitch vine tunnels.” ― Truman Capote, A Christmas Memory

Feliz Natal! <3

The Christmas Tree — Fairfield Porter

“The way ran zigzag through a forest of pine which the bitter wind, still that morning, had turned to ice; every bough was adorned with lines of stalactite which shivered and glittered in the morning sun;" ― Evelyn Waugh, Helena ***** art by Ivan Shishkin

A Child's Christmas in Wales, A Story - YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFSs...

Thank you to Franck A. Holzkamp A Happy Christmas by Viggo Johansen, 1891

Have a lovely and special day! via alexandra epps

What we’re being told is that a guy who is an adjudicated rapist, who was credibly accused of sexual assault by dozens of women, who paid hush money to a porn star, who cheated on all his wives, who is mentioned hundreds of times in the Epstein files, couldn’t possibly be a sexual predator.

A Simple, Down-to-Earth Christmas Card from the Great Depression (1933)

In the spirit of the awful year that’s just about to end, let me ask this question: What’s the sh*ttiest year you’ve lived through so far? Let me know your thoughts. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/office-hours-the-shittiest-year

NY Times: “This a presidency that celebrates nastiness and spite, not empathy or grace, a reflection, perhaps, of a coarser era in American life.”

I'm honored to announce that Baron Wormser's "The Loss of Literature" has been listed by the editors of the anthology The Best American Essays as a notable essay of 2024. Here's the link to Baron's essay in Vox Populi where it was first published: voxpopulisphere.com/2024/12/08/b...

ONE ART’s Winter Fundraiser oneartpoetry.com/2025/12/14/o...

Start naming mass shootings after politicians who take money from the NRA.

Wishing you and yours a very happy 100th Dick Van Dyke-mas.

The persecution of huge numbers of brown people and even the mass deportations will not create the white country of far-right fantasy. It’s coupled with an attack on reproductive rights that is sometimes openly intended to make white women have more babies....

Literally Jesus’s parents had to flee to another country with their baby to avoid the imperial police

Just noting that no one is ever going to seize a tanker full of solar energy www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

S.M. Abeles a hawk gliding / between two mountains / my heartbeat **** matt berry Hummingbird Hawk-moth

Thank you, Marjorie Maddox, for including my poem 'Sometimes You Wake Early' in Poetry Moment, a radio show broadcast by WPSU: radio.wpsu.org/2025-12-01/p...

Happy holidays meditation www.kvmr.org/show/molly-f...