by Susan | Apr 18, 2015 | National Poetry Month
It was a night spent in the basement of a burnt out building. People injured by the atomic bomb took shelter in this room, filling it. They passed the night in darkness, not even a single candle among them. The raw smell of blood, the stench of death. Body heat and...
by Susan | Apr 17, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
April 17, 1961 The Bay of Pigs invasion began when a CIA-financed and -trained group of Cuban refugees landed in Cuba and attempted to topple the communist government of Fidel Castro. The attack was a failure; nearly 1,200 of the 1,500 attackers were taken prisoner....
by Susan | Apr 17, 2015 | National Poetry Month
Our life is a fire dampened, or a fire shut up in stone. -Jacob Boehme, De Incarnatione Verbi Outside everything visible and invisible a blazing maple. Daybreak: a seam at the curve of the world. The trousered legs of the women shimmered. They held their arms in front...
by Susan | Apr 16, 2015 | this day in peace and justice history
April 16, 2000 Between 10,000 and 20,000 activists blockaded meetings of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund in Washington, D.C. Sitting down at intersections and locking arms to form human chains, the protesters were opposed to Bank and IMF policies that...
by Susan | Apr 16, 2015 | National Poetry Month
“Make of yourself a light,” said the Buddha, before he died. I think of this every morning as the east begins to tear off its many clouds of darkness, to send up the first signal — a white fan streaked with pink and violet, even green. An old man, he lay down between...
