June 2009
11 posts
“When resentment and contention threatened to destroy his administration, he...”
– Doris Goodwin, Team of Rivals, page xvii (about Lincoln)
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Something Worth Fighting About
June 21, 2009 Op-Ed Columnist
New York Times: A Supreme Leader Loses His Aura as Iranians Flock to the Streets
By ROGER COHEN
TEHRAN — The Iranian police commander, in green uniform, walked up Komak Hospital Alley with arms raised and his small unit at his side. “I swear to God,” he shouted at the protesters facing him, “I have children, I have a wife, I don’t want to beat people. Please go...
Begin by Rumi
This is now. Now is,
all there is. Don’t wait for Then; strike the spark, light the fire. Sit at the Beloved’s table, feast with gusto, drink your fill then dance the way branches of jasmine and cypress dance in a spring wind. The green earth is your cloth; tailor your robe with dignity and grace
“Fascism is not in itself a new order of society. It is the future refusing to be...”
– Aneurin Bevan
Forgiveness
NYT: Out of Guantánamo, Uighurs Bask in Bermuda
Justin Maxon/The New York Times
AN OCEAN IDYLL Salahidin Abdulahat, left, and Khaleel Mamut, Uighur Muslims recently freed from Guantánamo Bay, swam in Bermuda on Sunday. Mr. Abdulahat said his first-ever ocean swim was “the happiest day of my life.” By ERIK ECKHOLM Published: June 14, 2009
ST. GEORGE, Bermuda — Almost exactly seven...
Unending Love
I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times… In life after life, in age after age, forever. My spellbound heart has made and remade the necklace of songs, That you take as a gift, wear round your neck in your many forms, In life after life, in age after age, forever.
Whenever I hear old chronicles of love, it’s age old pain, It’s ancient tale of being apart or...
“Everything you do in life, every choice you make, has a consequence. When you do...”
– Mark Steven Johnson, Ghostrider, 2007
