Thursday, February 04, 2021

HANDS

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by Ruth Lehrer Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny makes a heart gesture with his hands while in a cage in the Moscow City Court on Tue...
Wednesday, February 03, 2021

NORTHEAST WINGS

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by W.F. Lantry Small unfamiliar birds with opened wings— their feathers leaving patterns in the snow each time they light beside hand scatte...
Tuesday, February 02, 2021

ON HEARING JOE BIDEN SPEAK IN 1971

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by Jane Patten What did I care of Fiscal fairness Divided among The three counties of Little Delaware, With its chicken on a banner, Its bat...
Monday, February 01, 2021

WHEEL OF FORTUNE

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 by Mary K O’Melveny “Vaccine Wheel of Fortune” by JMbucholtz at Deviant Art.                In the Circle of Life                     It...

POSTCARDS FROM MY PLACE IN LINE

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by Sandra Fees Tweeted by Apoorva Mandavilli <@apoorva_nyc> based on the “Find Your Place in the Vaccine Line” app at The New York Tim...
Sunday, January 31, 2021

DIME ON THE SIDEWALK

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by William Aarnes Paying with cards              or phones, people   now carry fewer     and fewer coins   yet here someone’s   dropped a di...

INSURRECTION MALAISE

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by Tricia Knoll Image via Getty Images . I watched that mob with confederate flags  use their poles as stabbers. I thought we could never ge...
Saturday, January 30, 2021

SATURDAY AFTERNOON AFTER THE INAUGURATION

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by Penelope Scambly Schott Two boys racing bikes in tight circles in the school parking lot. The neighbor directly across the street steppin...
Friday, January 29, 2021

MAJOR

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by Caitlin M.S. Buxbaum Joe Biden and Major in 2018, at the Delaware Humane Association. Credit: Stephanie Gomez/Delaware Humane Association...
Thursday, January 28, 2021

BERNIE’S MITTEN MEMES

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by Earl J. Wilcox cozy papa bear snug serene independent patriot supreme Earl J. Wilcox somehow stays snug and serene in South Carolina. Ed...

THE MAKING OF A DEMOCRAT

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by Gil Hoy A young boy  was still growing.  Still learning  whether he’d be happy or he’d be sad.    Early one morning, his mother was slowl...
Wednesday, January 27, 2021

BEYOND PANDEMIC FATIGUE

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by George Salamon "The first step is to understand that it's not just about exhaustion or tiredness or depleting a mental resource....

LESSONS FROM THE DEAD

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by Gilbert Allen The Arizona Republican Party on Saturday approved resolutions to censure Cindy McCain, widow of the late Senator John McCai...

TISSUE & NERVE

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by Art Goodtimes Illustration: Jonathon Rosen for Mother Jones , 2011. One of the books Capt. Barefoot’s been reading Crews’ Freud: The Maki...