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Where there’s a will… #writing #art #poetry

penned in moon dust

child's play

So familiar

like riding a bike

I can hear ungreased gears grind

my swollen feet have forgotten the motion

in frustration I fling the bike

willing it to take life

and show me how to ride in figure 8s

So familiar

like painting my first picture

I can see the blues, reds, yellows flow and swirl

but my trembling hands have forgotten

I impulsively pour water on my canvas

willing it to take life

and show me how to paint a blooming flower

So familiar

like writing my first story

I can feel the words mesh and explode

but my mind is lost in dog earred pages

I feverishly clutch at the manuscript

willing it to take life

and show me once again how to write a fantasy for children

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This week’s Verse First Prompt is “Right Under Your Nose.” My objective was to be honest in descriptions even…

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Egypt Debates US Strike on Syria

Nervana

I wrote this piece for Al-Monitor

As the debate rages in the United States and other Western nations about a possible strike against the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, a parallel debate is taking place in Egypt. Officially, the interim government has rejected any international intervention in Syria. The government’s stance is supported by many political parties, including the liberal Free Egyptian Party and moderate Islamists such as the Strong Egypt Party. The official stance has also gained strong backing from a wide portion of the Egyptian public. The mood now among Egyptians is hostile to any US intervention in Syria. Despite the ongoing civil war, the use of chemical weapons and the thousands of Syrians who were killed, injured or displaced, any US strike against Syria will be viewed in Egypt like the 1956 Suez crisis — that is, an unlawful attack by Western forces against a sovereign…

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Profile of Turkish Protest Movemet Icon Erdem Gündüz – SPIEGEL ONLINE

Erdem Gündüz feels somewhat uncomfortable as he stands in front of the Atatürk statue once again, worried that it might be too contrived. But he doesn’t need convincing. “I know the power of photos and what you journalists want,” he says with a smile.

via Profile of Turkish Protest Movemet Icon Erdem Gündüz – SPIEGEL ONLINE.

One condition to live with all troubles

hunadah

I thought the problem was that we didn’t know; however, for me, the problem turned out to be so much different. Our problem is that we know and we can live with it. We can live with famine, war, diseases, disasters, murder, poverty, and all the human crises. You think not? Of course we all can, but with one condition and one condition only to be able to do it is: When it is not us that are suffering from that.

 

 

 

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Minorities Must Demand Equal Protection in The Legal Process/Shaynia Davis Update

All of us should demand that equal protection in the legal process be actively pursued throughout the land – inequality threatens all of us.

Tess Powell Out Loud

Does anyone remember this little angel, whose life was tortuously ended by depraved  murderer Mario Andretti McNeil?shaniya

It was in 2009 5 year old Shaniya Davis was “traded” for drugs, by the her “mother”, Antoinette Davis. I don’t know if I ever heard of a more heinous crime, with so much evidence in my life.
  Yet it took over 3 years to Mario Andretti McNeil to trial & convict him to the death penalty. Ms Davis hasn’t been to trial yet.
Let’s contrast that with the murder of Trayvon Martin. Not only was he killed, but it took the outcry of a community to even get his killer arrested. Somehow though this case has been tried & the murderer acquitted in less than a year.
I contrast these two cases not exploit either victim, but to point out the fundamental fact that minorities in the US, whether victim or…

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Wind Map

Almost as good as meditation – watching the wind as your are stuck in some office somewhere just needing a good break from whatever. After looking at this for a short while, you realize that most problems or things that folks worry about – do not amount to much and that when humans think they control a lot – we do not!

 

An invisible, ancient source of energy surrounds us—energy that powered the first explorations of the world, and that may be a key to the future. This map shows you the delicate tracery of wind flowing over the US.

via Wind Map.