by Susan | Apr 4, 2016 | National Poetry Month
The widest prairies have electric fences For though old cattle know they must not stray Young steers are always scenting purer water Not here but anywhere. Beyond the wires Leads them to blunder up against the wires Whose muscle-shredding violence gives no quarter...
by Susan | Apr 4, 2016 | Monuments
Edwards Hicks was a Quaker sign painter, best known today for his “ornamental” paintings, ” especially the motif known as “The Peaceable Kingdom,” which illuminates Isaiah 11: “The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the...
by Susan | Apr 4, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
April 4, 1967 Martin Luther King Jr. spoke at Riverside church in New York about the war in Vietnam. King stated that “somehow this madness must cease. We must stop now. I speak as a child of God and brother to the suffering poor of Vietnam. I speak for those...
by Susan | Apr 3, 2016 | National Poetry Month
A bomb photographed me on the stone, on a white wall, a burned outline where the bomb rays found me out in the open and ended me, person and shadow, never to cast a shadow again, but be here so light the sun doesn’t know. People on Main Street used to stand in their...
by Susan | Apr 3, 2016 | this day in peace and justice history
April 3, 1944 In Smith v. Allwright, the Supreme Court declared the Texas all-white Democratic Party primary elections unconstitutional. Democratic Party primary elections were tantamount to the final election, because the Republican Party was then all but nonexistent...
