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“I want my friends to understand that “staying out of politics” or being “sick of politics” is privilege in action. Your privilege allows you to live a non-political existence. Your wealth, your race, your abilities or your gender allows you to live a life in which you likely will not be a target of bigotry, attacks, deportation, or genocide. You don’t want to get political, you don’t want to fight because your life and safety are not at stake.

“It is hard and exhausting to bring up issues of oppression (aka “get political”). The fighting is tiring. I get it. Self-care is essential. But if you find politics annoying and you just want everyone to be nice, please know that people are literally fighting for their lives and safety. You might not see it, but that’s what privilege does.” / Kristen Tea, motherwiselife.org

“To paraphrase Tolstoy, you many not be interested in war, conflict, environmental injustice, and human rights abuses, but they are interested in you. They stalk everyone.” / Jamie Dedes

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“The BeZine” Call for Submissions, International Poetry Month

To mark International Poetry Month April 2020, we at The BeZine blog invite submissions of poems on the current pandemic. To paraphrase R. Buckminster, think globally but write locally. Write from your context about your experience during this Time of Coronavirus, but at the same time, reflecting to larger global contexts. Write about glimmers from […]

Alphabet of Love

Living this life again as though I were six sick again and grasping about in silence. I will learn to breathe again, how to go beyond it So that I can dance and fly to those zones of magic. Stones and burning light and the kind of openness you can never plan. Tones of people […]

empathy

Originally posted on Gretchen Del Rio's Art Blog:
watercolor I just received the following information from my son Ben who is working on the front lines in a Massachusetts ER. It contains guidelines to stay uninfected by the virus and it goes way beyond anything I have heard or read. Feel free to forward…

Lost Gardeners

There was such colour and bustle where now reflective calm. In the thunderbox room nearby the melon yard haunting echoes of silent voices once green fingers that pressed a trigger for King and country gently call from an early grave, who once scattered humus here. They shed tears for weeds that stained the fresh leaves […]

Four Poems by Diana Raab

Elegant Air I inhale breaths and ethers ……….. offered by this place, ……yet wonder where in this universe ………………………………..lies the rest of my needed oxygen. …………………………………………I cannot help but wonder as I ………………………………………………….separate myself from its beauty. You Remember You remember my voice even though I have long ago peeled myself from you, your […]

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