Someone Somewhere
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"I rhyme / To see myself, to set the darkness echoing."
- Seamus Heaney, in Personal Helicon
Let love, empathy, kindness guide everything we do. ...let's stop this divisive madness shredding our country apart. #StrongerTogether
- Seamus Heaney, in Personal Helicon
Let love, empathy, kindness guide everything we do. ...let's stop this divisive madness shredding our country apart. #StrongerTogether
we are all exhausted and tired... i'm staying away from bluesky for mental sanity! I do peruse news and know whats going on but we slid really fast into fascism. each day there is something new that reminds me of this! Lawmakers and even many judges have failed us.
image: recent. New Yorker 2025
image: recent. New Yorker 2025
June 3, 2025 at 7:16 PM
we are all exhausted and tired... i'm staying away from bluesky for mental sanity! I do peruse news and know whats going on but we slid really fast into fascism. each day there is something new that reminds me of this! Lawmakers and even many judges have failed us.
image: recent. New Yorker 2025
image: recent. New Yorker 2025
Poem: Uncertainty Principle at Dawn
Catherine Barnett, in her 3rd book of poetry, Human Hours (2018)
Catherine Barnett, in her 3rd book of poetry, Human Hours (2018)
May 10, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Poem: Uncertainty Principle at Dawn
Catherine Barnett, in her 3rd book of poetry, Human Hours (2018)
Catherine Barnett, in her 3rd book of poetry, Human Hours (2018)
No hope with the way Republicans are standing by the criminals/dictators/fascists.
www.axios.com/2025/04/29/p...
www.axios.com/2025/04/29/p...
May 1, 2025 at 4:38 PM
No hope with the way Republicans are standing by the criminals/dictators/fascists.
www.axios.com/2025/04/29/p...
www.axios.com/2025/04/29/p...
What a difference a year makes, huh!
Last Year...
Last Year...
May 1, 2025 at 8:57 AM
What a difference a year makes, huh!
Last Year...
Last Year...
But of course, Biden is to blame for effects of Trump's actions of the last 100 days and the mayhem he has caused!
More give Trump an F than any other grade for first 100 days, poll finds
www.npr.org/2025/04/29/n...
Reality and what Trump and his administration say disconnected long time ago!
More give Trump an F than any other grade for first 100 days, poll finds
www.npr.org/2025/04/29/n...
Reality and what Trump and his administration say disconnected long time ago!
May 1, 2025 at 8:54 AM
But of course, Biden is to blame for effects of Trump's actions of the last 100 days and the mayhem he has caused!
More give Trump an F than any other grade for first 100 days, poll finds
www.npr.org/2025/04/29/n...
Reality and what Trump and his administration say disconnected long time ago!
More give Trump an F than any other grade for first 100 days, poll finds
www.npr.org/2025/04/29/n...
Reality and what Trump and his administration say disconnected long time ago!
The third James Bond novel was published this day in 1955. The plot: villain is a rocket-building technocrat who is actually a secret Nazi working for the Russians.
Take a bow, Ian Fleming, Nostradamus of our day!😜😂
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Take a bow, Ian Fleming, Nostradamus of our day!😜😂
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April 5, 2025 at 6:59 PM
The third James Bond novel was published this day in 1955. The plot: villain is a rocket-building technocrat who is actually a secret Nazi working for the Russians.
Take a bow, Ian Fleming, Nostradamus of our day!😜😂
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Take a bow, Ian Fleming, Nostradamus of our day!😜😂
Via www.reddit.com/r/OldSchoolC...
Trump bragging about how market showed best ever returns under any president ever under him in 2016-20 is false too but his markets will boom in trump 2.0 talk yesterday rings hollow too.
Truth: 👇from 3 weeks ago. It's been dropping like a lead ball further since!
www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeau...
Truth: 👇from 3 weeks ago. It's been dropping like a lead ball further since!
www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeau...
April 4, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Trump bragging about how market showed best ever returns under any president ever under him in 2016-20 is false too but his markets will boom in trump 2.0 talk yesterday rings hollow too.
Truth: 👇from 3 weeks ago. It's been dropping like a lead ball further since!
www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeau...
Truth: 👇from 3 weeks ago. It's been dropping like a lead ball further since!
www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeau...
"An aching eye seeing through pain,
a stewing pot of poison,
I was both.
Reaching for the antidote,
I touched compassion.
I touched mercy."
Poetry by Rumi, translated by Haleh Liza Gafori
🎧 now! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/l...
open.spotify.com/episode/0ZrE...
a stewing pot of poison,
I was both.
Reaching for the antidote,
I touched compassion.
I touched mercy."
Poetry by Rumi, translated by Haleh Liza Gafori
🎧 now! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/l...
open.spotify.com/episode/0ZrE...
April 1, 2025 at 9:54 AM
"An aching eye seeing through pain,
a stewing pot of poison,
I was both.
Reaching for the antidote,
I touched compassion.
I touched mercy."
Poetry by Rumi, translated by Haleh Liza Gafori
🎧 now! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/l...
open.spotify.com/episode/0ZrE...
a stewing pot of poison,
I was both.
Reaching for the antidote,
I touched compassion.
I touched mercy."
Poetry by Rumi, translated by Haleh Liza Gafori
🎧 now! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/l...
open.spotify.com/episode/0ZrE...
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing,
There is a field.
I'll meet you there.
When the soul lies down in that grass,
The world is too full to talk about.
Ideas, language, even the phrase each other
Doesn't make any sense.
- Rumi
from The Essential Rumi, 1995, translations by Barks et al
There is a field.
I'll meet you there.
When the soul lies down in that grass,
The world is too full to talk about.
Ideas, language, even the phrase each other
Doesn't make any sense.
- Rumi
from The Essential Rumi, 1995, translations by Barks et al
April 1, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing,
There is a field.
I'll meet you there.
When the soul lies down in that grass,
The world is too full to talk about.
Ideas, language, even the phrase each other
Doesn't make any sense.
- Rumi
from The Essential Rumi, 1995, translations by Barks et al
There is a field.
I'll meet you there.
When the soul lies down in that grass,
The world is too full to talk about.
Ideas, language, even the phrase each other
Doesn't make any sense.
- Rumi
from The Essential Rumi, 1995, translations by Barks et al
No visitor but since the regime change in Jan, this 👇 is how I have been feeling.
.. from Overstaying, by Ariane Koch, p73
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.. from Overstaying, by Ariane Koch, p73
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March 31, 2025 at 2:13 PM
No visitor but since the regime change in Jan, this 👇 is how I have been feeling.
.. from Overstaying, by Ariane Koch, p73
www.nyrb.com/products/ove...
.. from Overstaying, by Ariane Koch, p73
www.nyrb.com/products/ove...
Poem: Self-portrait as Etioly, by I. S. Jones, American / Nigerian poet and senior editor for Poetry Northwest where she runs her column, The Legacy Suite, a three-part interview documenting the journey of writers publishing their debut poetry collections.
pleiadesmag.com/the-magic-of...
pleiadesmag.com/the-magic-of...
March 31, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Poem: Self-portrait as Etioly, by I. S. Jones, American / Nigerian poet and senior editor for Poetry Northwest where she runs her column, The Legacy Suite, a three-part interview documenting the journey of writers publishing their debut poetry collections.
pleiadesmag.com/the-magic-of...
pleiadesmag.com/the-magic-of...
🎨 Umar Defeats a Dragon, from the Hamzanama, an illustrated copy of the Persian epic of Amir Hamza, the uncle of the prophet Muhammad - put together between 1562-1577, under the patronage of Mughal emperor Akbar & the leadership of above-mentioned Mir Sayyid Ali.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akbar_H...
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akbar_H...
March 30, 2025 at 10:52 AM
🎨 Umar Defeats a Dragon, from the Hamzanama, an illustrated copy of the Persian epic of Amir Hamza, the uncle of the prophet Muhammad - put together between 1562-1577, under the patronage of Mughal emperor Akbar & the leadership of above-mentioned Mir Sayyid Ali.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akbar_H...
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akbar_H...
Self-portrait by Mir Sayyid Ali, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1550
Mir Sayyid Ali, miniature artist from Tabriz, Iran (Safavid Empire), later an artist at the court of the Mughal emperor, Akbar.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mir_Say...
Mir Sayyid Ali, miniature artist from Tabriz, Iran (Safavid Empire), later an artist at the court of the Mughal emperor, Akbar.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mir_Say...
March 30, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Self-portrait by Mir Sayyid Ali, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1550
Mir Sayyid Ali, miniature artist from Tabriz, Iran (Safavid Empire), later an artist at the court of the Mughal emperor, Akbar.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mir_Say...
Mir Sayyid Ali, miniature artist from Tabriz, Iran (Safavid Empire), later an artist at the court of the Mughal emperor, Akbar.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mir_Say...
🎨 Nighttime in a City, probably a folio from an illustrated manuscript, c. 1540, Attributed to Mir Sayyid Ali, miniature artist from Tabriz, Iran (Safavid Empire), later an artist at the court of the Mughal emperor, Akbar.
Medium: opaque watercolor, gold and silver on paper
hvrd.art/o/303390
Medium: opaque watercolor, gold and silver on paper
hvrd.art/o/303390
March 30, 2025 at 10:05 AM
🎨 Nighttime in a City, probably a folio from an illustrated manuscript, c. 1540, Attributed to Mir Sayyid Ali, miniature artist from Tabriz, Iran (Safavid Empire), later an artist at the court of the Mughal emperor, Akbar.
Medium: opaque watercolor, gold and silver on paper
hvrd.art/o/303390
Medium: opaque watercolor, gold and silver on paper
hvrd.art/o/303390
"I have built a high palace that will never disappear. No rain, no wind will destroy it."
- Ferdowsi, Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shahnameh
🎧 Shahnameh
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...
🎧 Ferdowsi: How One Poet Saved Persian Civilisation
m.youtube.com/watch?v=2hTN...
- Ferdowsi, Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shahnameh
🎧 Shahnameh
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...
🎧 Ferdowsi: How One Poet Saved Persian Civilisation
m.youtube.com/watch?v=2hTN...
March 30, 2025 at 3:50 AM
"I have built a high palace that will never disappear. No rain, no wind will destroy it."
- Ferdowsi, Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shahnameh
🎧 Shahnameh
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...
🎧 Ferdowsi: How One Poet Saved Persian Civilisation
m.youtube.com/watch?v=2hTN...
- Ferdowsi, Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shahnameh
🎧 Shahnameh
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...
🎧 Ferdowsi: How One Poet Saved Persian Civilisation
m.youtube.com/watch?v=2hTN...
Was going to start Izumi Suzuki's novel, Set My Heart On Fire, that I had picked up at the library earlier in March but I'm so easily distracted & ended up reading about some other books (mentioned in aforementioned podcast) this evening. So it goes..
Review
chireviewofbooks.com/2024/11/13/t...
Review
chireviewofbooks.com/2024/11/13/t...
March 30, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Was going to start Izumi Suzuki's novel, Set My Heart On Fire, that I had picked up at the library earlier in March but I'm so easily distracted & ended up reading about some other books (mentioned in aforementioned podcast) this evening. So it goes..
Review
chireviewofbooks.com/2024/11/13/t...
Review
chireviewofbooks.com/2024/11/13/t...
Well... Can someone fact check this data/graph.
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March 28, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Well... Can someone fact check this data/graph.
www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeau...
www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeau...
March 28, 2025 at 12:34 AM
loved the ending :)
Be the Dog, prose-poem by Shane Kowalski, a PA-baed writer and author of the story collection Small Moods (Future Tense Books).
poems.com/poem/be-the-...
Be the Dog, prose-poem by Shane Kowalski, a PA-baed writer and author of the story collection Small Moods (Future Tense Books).
poems.com/poem/be-the-...
March 28, 2025 at 12:30 AM
loved the ending :)
Be the Dog, prose-poem by Shane Kowalski, a PA-baed writer and author of the story collection Small Moods (Future Tense Books).
poems.com/poem/be-the-...
Be the Dog, prose-poem by Shane Kowalski, a PA-baed writer and author of the story collection Small Moods (Future Tense Books).
poems.com/poem/be-the-...
Ok...not posting anything more about politics after this. Even God rested on a Sunday, they say! :)
So, some art and poetry and music to fill our feeds for the rest of today. Let me start with this poem for now.
A Certain Song, by Ko Un (from The Three Way Tavern)
www.ucpress.edu/books/the-th...
So, some art and poetry and music to fill our feeds for the rest of today. Let me start with this poem for now.
A Certain Song, by Ko Un (from The Three Way Tavern)
www.ucpress.edu/books/the-th...
March 23, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Ok...not posting anything more about politics after this. Even God rested on a Sunday, they say! :)
So, some art and poetry and music to fill our feeds for the rest of today. Let me start with this poem for now.
A Certain Song, by Ko Un (from The Three Way Tavern)
www.ucpress.edu/books/the-th...
So, some art and poetry and music to fill our feeds for the rest of today. Let me start with this poem for now.
A Certain Song, by Ko Un (from The Three Way Tavern)
www.ucpress.edu/books/the-th...
POEM: Knowledge, by Louise Bogan
March 22, 2025 at 11:21 PM
POEM: Knowledge, by Louise Bogan
Here's a poem by Danusha Laméris whose poem Small Kindnesses is very popular (image below)
Fictional Characters
by Danusha Laméris
wordsfortheyear.com/2015/07/18/f...
Fictional Characters
by Danusha Laméris
wordsfortheyear.com/2015/07/18/f...
March 18, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Here's a poem by Danusha Laméris whose poem Small Kindnesses is very popular (image below)
Fictional Characters
by Danusha Laméris
wordsfortheyear.com/2015/07/18/f...
Fictional Characters
by Danusha Laméris
wordsfortheyear.com/2015/07/18/f...
And really - look at this graph! Dismal outlook!
"The big news in the UMich data was not inflation expectations. Look at what people are saying about the jobs market! Expected change in unemployment worst since the 2008 recession...."
Consumers see labor market collapsing
x.com/RenMacLLC/st...
"The big news in the UMich data was not inflation expectations. Look at what people are saying about the jobs market! Expected change in unemployment worst since the 2008 recession...."
Consumers see labor market collapsing
x.com/RenMacLLC/st...
March 15, 2025 at 11:40 AM
And really - look at this graph! Dismal outlook!
"The big news in the UMich data was not inflation expectations. Look at what people are saying about the jobs market! Expected change in unemployment worst since the 2008 recession...."
Consumers see labor market collapsing
x.com/RenMacLLC/st...
"The big news in the UMich data was not inflation expectations. Look at what people are saying about the jobs market! Expected change in unemployment worst since the 2008 recession...."
Consumers see labor market collapsing
x.com/RenMacLLC/st...
Musk/Trump plan to hurt 99%+ of us. As billionaires, they don't need Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid. They need the Trump tax cuts for the mega-rich. It's a transfer of wealth, once again, from the rich to the poor.
Excerpt below from Paul Krugman post:
paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-clean-...
Excerpt below from Paul Krugman post:
paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-clean-...
March 15, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Musk/Trump plan to hurt 99%+ of us. As billionaires, they don't need Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid. They need the Trump tax cuts for the mega-rich. It's a transfer of wealth, once again, from the rich to the poor.
Excerpt below from Paul Krugman post:
paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-clean-...
Excerpt below from Paul Krugman post:
paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-clean-...
Contribution to the US trade deficit, by country (2024)
So wonder why Trump is so obsessed with Canada. Just a fragile male ego slight left over from term1, angst over the alpha-ness of Trudeau that he cannot deal with? Remember the shake hand in term1. That's one theory. What else is going on?
So wonder why Trump is so obsessed with Canada. Just a fragile male ego slight left over from term1, angst over the alpha-ness of Trudeau that he cannot deal with? Remember the shake hand in term1. That's one theory. What else is going on?
March 14, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Contribution to the US trade deficit, by country (2024)
So wonder why Trump is so obsessed with Canada. Just a fragile male ego slight left over from term1, angst over the alpha-ness of Trudeau that he cannot deal with? Remember the shake hand in term1. That's one theory. What else is going on?
So wonder why Trump is so obsessed with Canada. Just a fragile male ego slight left over from term1, angst over the alpha-ness of Trudeau that he cannot deal with? Remember the shake hand in term1. That's one theory. What else is going on?