24 Sunday Nov 2019
Posted in United States
Trump’s Shakedown Makes Washington Just Another Racket The impeachment inquiry into U.S. President Donald Trump has pulled my homeland, Ukraine, into the spotlight, and more Americans are talking about it than ever before. Yet few see it clearly. Some still call it — wrongly — “the Ukraine”, and few seem willing to spell the name of […]
27 Sunday Oct 2019
Posted in People, United States
[T]here is nothing weak about kindness and compassion. There is nothing weak about looking out for others. There is nothing weak about being honorable. You are not a sucker to have integrity and to treat others with respect…
“The cost of doing nothing isn’t nothing,” [Elijah] would say, and folks would remember why they entered into public service. “Our children are the living messengers we send to a future we will never see,” he would say, and he would remind all of us that our time is too short not to fight for what’s good and what is true and what is best in America.
Two hundred years to 300 years from now, [Elijah] would say, people will look back at this moment and they will ask the question “What did you do?” And hearing him, we would be reminded that it falls upon each of us to give voice to the voiceless, and comfort to the sick, and opportunity to those not born to it, and to preserve and nurture our democracy.
25 Sunday Aug 2019
Posted in Anthropogenic Climate Disruption, United States
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Pam Lazos, writing at Green Life Blue Water, observes the signs of climate change around her in Central Pennsylvania. Troubled by the “unknown unknown,” using the “tortured phraseology” of former Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, she calls on us to face reality and cure our global bipolar disorder.
We all know the truth: it’s time for an intervention. We can help Mother Nature deal with her issues because we are her issues. The government is not going to save us and neither are the aliens, in case you were wondering. The only ones who can save us are us. It’s time to do what we do best as a country — solve problems, innovate, lead so others might follow. The payoff — as if saving the planet and ourselves wasn’t enough — is that there’s a heck of a lot of money to be made in green technology, but first, we need to cure our global bipolar disorder and think things through in rational, logical terms.
Read her complete post at Global Bipolar Disorder — Green Life Blue Water
04 Sunday Aug 2019
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Book Review, Caribbean Fiction, Guyanese-Canadian Artist Joan Bryan-Muss, Guyanese-Canadian Author Ken Puddicombe, Multicultural Fiction, Under the Tamarind Tree: A Novel by Rosaliene Bacchus
Great news! I’ve received the first review of my debut novel, Under the Tamarind Tree, soon to be released. The reviewer, Guyana-born Ken Puddicombe, is the author of three historical novels Racing With the Rain (2012), Junta (2014), and Down Independence Boulevard & Other Stories (2017). He lives in Toronto, Canada, where he owns and runs a small press.
Do check out his review.
COVER ART BY GUYANESE-CANADIAN ARTIST JOAN BRYAN-MUSS
UNDER THE TAMARIND TREE Copyright 2019 By Rosaliene Bacchus 284 pgs Published by Lulu Press, Inc. USA Review by Ken Puddicombe The fruit of the Tamarind Tree holds a puzzling allure to people in the tropics, its tangy and acidic fruit devoured obsessively, even as it stimulates the taste buds with spasms of unpleasantness […]
via Book Review: Under The Tamarind Tree by Rosaliene Bacchus — Ken Puddicombe -Writer
26 Sunday May 2019
Posted in Save Our Children
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As we remember those who have fallen this Memorial Day, I share the thoughts of fellow blogger Larry “Dutch” Woller, a Vietnam veteran.
Maybe No More Children Will Die
I sit here looking at the news
The powers wanted peace they say,
And while they spoke, bombs were dropped
20 children died that day!
Read more at On the Path Least Traveled
17 Sunday Feb 2019
Posted in Anthropogenic Climate Disruption, United States
By Robert A. Vella. It may seem paradoxical to laypeople that we would have severe cold weather spells in wintertime given that the world is rapidly warming up due to manmade climate change; and, climate change deniers are quick to exploit this paradox for political reasons. But, it is true. Global warming is increasing the incidence of extreme weather events of every kind from prolonged droughts and powerful storms to deadly heat waves and brutal cold snaps. The following details the basic science behind the phenomenon popularly, though inaccurately, known as the “polar vortex.” The real polar vortex is something else altogether…
20 Sunday Jan 2019
Posted in Uncategorized
Trust is the foundation of all human connections. From brief encounters to intimate relationships, it governs almost every interaction we have with each other. I trust my housemates not to go into my room without asking, I trust the bank to keep my money safe and I trust the pilot of my plane to fly […]
via Why Technology Changes Who We Trust — The Conversation Room
16 Sunday Dec 2018
Posted in Immigrants, United States
With thousands of migrants from Central America currently stranded just south of the US border in Mexico, it’s time to ignore the political rhetoric coming from Washington for a few minutes and focus on the reasons so many choose to leave country, culture and family behind and walk 2,500 miles (4,000 kms) to an unknown […]
via Dispelling Myths About Migration — my quest blog
This Christmas, I find no reason for celebration. My thoughts are with the desperate mothers and fathers from Guatemala and other Central American countries who seek only a secure life for their children. If we, the world’s largest economy, cannot provide them with refuge, who will?
Learn about Henry Lewis, my guest blogger.
