A message much needed and beautifully expressed.. for anyone and everyone who might need the reminder to sit in silence and stillness. Just listen. ikar.org/events/this-...

Now available in paperback at your favorite indie bookstore. Squirrel not included. #ThirdEar #book #listening

I can't wait to impeach him already, 3rd time's the charm!

800 detainees are missing after being held in Alligator Alcatraz in July, showing no record of their location in ICE’s database. Other detainees have been mistakenly deported or sent to detention centers thousands of miles away. The cruelty is the point.

"Last time I went after them, they gave me $16 Million Dollars. This one sounds even more lucrative.” Bowing down to a bully never works. And we can’t become numb to this corruption in plain sight.

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Directly under my house

Not just Unpopular! He's also the Most Unworthy-Unqualified-Unethical-Uneducated-Unprepared-Undemocratic-Unfortunate-Unhinged-Unjust-Unread-Unappealing-Unconscionable-Untrustworthy-Unscrupulous-Unstable-Unbearable-Unlikable-Unreliable-Unsound & Unctuous President in Modern American History. 🇺🇸 🙄

Grateful & thrilled to share this gorgeous #cover designed by @nlcaputo.bsky.social for my #poetry collection, GRAVITY. It includes stunning interior #artwork by Lola Fraknoi & a new introduction from yours truly. Spring #publication means #pre-orders are happening now. Thanks for your support!

Pete Buttigieg WARNS America: “They didn't stop at the law firms. They didn't stop at the Universities. They didn't even stop at the comedians. They are NOT going to stop until they have TOTAL POWER!."

I stand with PBS. I stand with NPR. I stand with Stephen Colbert. I stand with Jimmy Kimmel. I stand with the First Amendment. PERIOD.* *Also #ReleaseTheEPSTEIN_Files

"Listening Beyond the Noise." Please join me, Leigh Marz, and Cari Borja this Monday evening at Clio's in Oakland. #ThirdEar #Golden #Listening #Silence #Books #Conversation www.eventbrite.com/e/the-sounds...

I Stand with Justice Sotomayor.

Asking for your support to help provide end-of-life caregiving funds for my very dear friend and mentor, Susan Griffin. I’m heartbroken to bear witness to her illness and decline, but I remain supremely grateful for her profoundly important work. Thank you. gofund.me/3feaa0680

Note the idea that truthfulness requires courage !

Important. Clear, concise, imperative. Please watch.

Sky Water Sky

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu: “Silence in the face of oppression is not an option. The U.S. Attorney General asked for a response by today. So here it is…Stop attacking our cities to hide your administration's failures.”

Grateful to Barry Shingle and his terrific podcast, RESONATE, for this thoughtful conversation about the art of listening with a third ear. youtu.be/Z5BFrYexklc?...

I have taken the resources that were in the budget and which you were probably saving for higher education Forgive me they were needed to feed the AI bubble and to dismantle the humanities

Stephen Miller tried to claim only real "Americans" built the Empire State Building, but he left out the true stories of the Indigenous ironworkers who actually did. The Mohawk Skywalkers helped shape America's skylines—and shatter the lie behind Miller’s whitewashed nostalgia.

Irresponsible and totally on brand

Please consider donating any amount in support of my dear friend and mentor, Susan Griffin. Thank you. www.gofundme.com/f/support-su...

ברוך דיין האמת Just heard the news that my uncle Joseph Wolfgang, in Bnei Brak, has passed away. He survived Buchenwald together with my father, until they were liberated by the American army in April 1945. He had four children and thirty-six grandchildren. May his memory be a blessing.

"I used to think words could stop a war. I used to think language had a kind of backbone. But now even metaphors feel embarrassed. Now even hope has to be rationed." some of many brilliant painful lines from "Things That Fall," by Sushanta Basumatary @rattlepoetry.bsky.social

My latest, about invisible things. elizabethrosner.substack.com/p/not-panick...

Ty @finishinglinepress.bsky.social My #debut #poetry collection, Self-Portraits Ex Machina, will be released Nov. 2025! gratitude to #EwaChrusciel @shikhamalaviya.bsky.social @elizabethrosner.bsky.social for their many kindnesses 🩷🙏🏽

"The humanities are not luxuries for quiet contemplation. They are the lifeblood of civil society. They teach us to listen, to question, to empathize, to lead with principle. They give our data meaning, our city’s identity, and our people dignity." #Florida #Humanities #NEH

The withdrawal accounts for nearly half of the soldiers sent to Los Angeles in June to suppress protests over the Trump administration's immigration crackdown.

Every day there are fewer left alive who survived the camps. My father, who endured this hell as a teenager, tried always to share what he learned about evil and resistance to evil. I do my best to keep that message alive, in his memory, and yet it’s increasingly clear we have not learned enough.

When history doesn’t merely repeat itself but actually screams in your face

#backyardbeauties #photosky

One of my favorite images from a visit to Moloa’a, on the island of Kaua’i. #photosky #travelsky #islands Inside/Outside

"The masks frequently worn by agents make ICE seem like the type of secret police that operates in authoritarian regimes. But they are apparently meant to keep the police secret."

Portrait of an octogenarian learning that Santa Claus isn’t real

She’s right again, you know. She usually is.

“For all things sing you: at times we just hear them more clearly.” ~Rainer Maria Rilke

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content. ~Helen Keller #ThirdEar #Listening

“Literature is like an ear that can hear things beyond the understanding of politics.” - Italo Calvino #ThirdEar #Listening

She survived the Holocaust, and died way too young, at 70, from breast cancer. I’m forever grateful for all she taught me about how to love deeply and how to cherish the beautiful, troubled world. I miss her so much. Blessings on your Birthday, Mom. 🎆 !

I really don’t care about the Sean Combs trial, and I don’t need to know the verdict in real time. The Senate just passed a bill that expands ICE into a no-shit unprecedented secret police force with more funding than the US Marines, and ALL OF THE CABLE NETWORKS are fixated on Sean Combs.

If one of these people is your senator, it is incredibly important that you call them today. Urge them to vote NO on the Senate budget bill that would make most Americans poorer to give billionaires a tax cut they don't even need.

Every sip tells a story. www.vintageberkeley.com/blogs/events...

I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain. ~James Baldwin #relevant

Brownshirt ICE rolled up to my local Home Depot today and got the F-off treatment. Shoutout to this woman because this is exactly how it’s done. No badge, face covered = F*ck all the way off. 📌 It’s on us citizens to stand up for our vulnerable brothers and sisters.