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THE WORLD RISING
The World Rising ©2017 by Alice Walker The world rising Can put an end To anything: The murder of children Whales Elephants Oceans. Getup. Roll over
BLOG | ALICE WALKER | THE OFFICIAL WEBSITE FOR AMERICAN Liberation News Audio Program Ramsey Clark Soundcloud. Photo: Dennis Banks, Fidel Castro, Alice Walker, Ramsey Clark, in Havana, April 1993. Credit: Gloria La Riva, photo and article. Liberation News Audio Program & Article Reprint 2021-04*. Ramsey Clark, former U.S. Attorney General and renowned international human-rights attorney who stood JANUARY | 2021 | ALICE WALKER | THE OFFICIAL WEBSITE FOR Cicely. 1924-2021. With your great skill, and compassion: Thank you for helping us bear this look in our eyes. ~aw. Con su gran habilidad y compasión: Gracias por ayudarnos a tener esta mirada en nuestros ojos. ~ aw. P.S. Tune in to the vibration of all of us reading Cicely’s book: Just As I Am, at the same time!ONCE (1968)
ONCE (1968) This first volume of poetry established Alice Walker as a poet of unusual sensitivity and power. All of these poems were written either in East Africa, where Walker spent the summer of 1965, or during her senior year at Sarah Lawrence College. The collection is remarkably mature and varied: the opening group of graceful, wittypoems
TO CHANGE THE WORLD ENOUGH To Change the World Enough. To change the world enough. you must cease to be afraid. of the poor. We experience your fear as the least pardonable of. humiliations; in the past. it has sent us scurrying off. daunted and ashamed. into the shadows. THE SAME RIVER TWICE: HONORING THE DIFFICULT In Walker’s important new book, The Same River Twice: Honoring the Difficult, the Mendocino County-based author revisits the film set of The Color Purple, describing her personal reactions to the whole experience, in brave, naked detail. SWEET PEOPLE ARE EVERYWHERE in Iceland. and. in Russia. There are many sweet people in Korea. There are millions of sweet people in China. There are sweet people in Japan. If the sweet people were the leaders in these historically warring Asian countries. they would treat each other. much better! PRAYER TO THE GREAT AWARENESS (FOR THE AWAKENING.) We Are the Flag; Ramsey Clark dies: An Attorney General who turned against imperialism (Article Reprint 2021-04-10) What Does Truth Sound Like? Can We Still Tell? COMMENTARY: DAVID ICKE AND MALCOLM X I have not known of David Icke until recently; I owe the introduction to my partner who encouraged me to share a couple of videos with him. What I admire most about David Icke is the freedom of his mind. BOOK LIST | ALICE WALKER | THE OFFICIAL WEBSITE FOR The Chicken Chronicles, a Memoir, 2011. Novels. The Third Life of Grange Copeland. Meridian. The Color Purple. The Temple of My Familiar. Possessing the Secret of Joy. By the Light of My Father’s Smile. Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart.THE WORLD RISING
The World Rising ©2017 by Alice Walker The world rising Can put an end To anything: The murder of children Whales Elephants Oceans. Getup. Roll over
BLOG | ALICE WALKER | THE OFFICIAL WEBSITE FOR AMERICAN Liberation News Audio Program Ramsey Clark Soundcloud. Photo: Dennis Banks, Fidel Castro, Alice Walker, Ramsey Clark, in Havana, April 1993. Credit: Gloria La Riva, photo and article. Liberation News Audio Program & Article Reprint 2021-04*. Ramsey Clark, former U.S. Attorney General and renowned international human-rights attorney who stood JANUARY | 2021 | ALICE WALKER | THE OFFICIAL WEBSITE FOR Cicely. 1924-2021. With your great skill, and compassion: Thank you for helping us bear this look in our eyes. ~aw. Con su gran habilidad y compasión: Gracias por ayudarnos a tener esta mirada en nuestros ojos. ~ aw. P.S. Tune in to the vibration of all of us reading Cicely’s book: Just As I Am, at the same time!ONCE (1968)
ONCE (1968) This first volume of poetry established Alice Walker as a poet of unusual sensitivity and power. All of these poems were written either in East Africa, where Walker spent the summer of 1965, or during her senior year at Sarah Lawrence College. The collection is remarkably mature and varied: the opening group of graceful, wittypoems
TO CHANGE THE WORLD ENOUGH To Change the World Enough. To change the world enough. you must cease to be afraid. of the poor. We experience your fear as the least pardonable of. humiliations; in the past. it has sent us scurrying off. daunted and ashamed. into the shadows. THE SAME RIVER TWICE: HONORING THE DIFFICULT In Walker’s important new book, The Same River Twice: Honoring the Difficult, the Mendocino County-based author revisits the film set of The Color Purple, describing her personal reactions to the whole experience, in brave, naked detail. SWEET PEOPLE ARE EVERYWHERE in Iceland. and. in Russia. There are many sweet people in Korea. There are millions of sweet people in China. There are sweet people in Japan. If the sweet people were the leaders in these historically warring Asian countries. they would treat each other. much better! PRAYER TO THE GREAT AWARENESS (FOR THE AWAKENING.) We Are the Flag; Ramsey Clark dies: An Attorney General who turned against imperialism (Article Reprint 2021-04-10) What Does Truth Sound Like? Can We Still Tell? COMMENTARY: DAVID ICKE AND MALCOLM X I have not known of David Icke until recently; I owe the introduction to my partner who encouraged me to share a couple of videos with him. What I admire most about David Icke is the freedom of his mind. MY BOOKS | ALICE WALKER | THE OFFICIAL WEBSITE FOR In this exquisite book, Alice Walker’s first new collection of poetry since 1991, are poems that reaffirm her as “one of the best American writers of today” (The Washington Post). The forces of nature and the strength of the human spirit inspire the poems in Absolute Trust in the Goodness of the Earth. Alice Walker opens us tofeeling and
“THEY ARE NOT NUMBERS” We Are Not Numbers. When Omar al-Manakosh was 2, his parents died in a car crash, and he had to raise himself and his brother until he was 20. He pursued a technical diploma and learned smartphones maintenance and wanted this to be his career, until he was killed today by Israeliwarplanes in #Gaza.
BE NOBODY’S DARLING Where thousands perished. For brave hurt words. They said. But be nobody’s darling; Be an outcast. Qualified to live. Among your dead. From Revolutionary Petunias and Other Poem s. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1986 by Alice Walker. MY DAUGHTER HITS IT ON THE HEAD: REBECCA WALKER ON LEAVING My Daughter Hits It On The Head: Rebecca Walker on Leaving the Intellectual Plantation. As far as I’m concerned, one of the duties of any child is to help her or his parents whenever that is possible. TO CHANGE THE WORLD ENOUGH To Change the World Enough. To change the world enough. you must cease to be afraid. of the poor. We experience your fear as the least pardonable of. humiliations; in the past. it has sent us scurrying off. daunted and ashamed. into the shadows. FEBRUARY | 2011 | ALICE WALKER | THE OFFICIAL WEBSITE FOR Ancestors of here. Ending The Age of Waste ©2011 by Alice Walker. The most important thing humanity can do is believe in itself. That we can grow, that we can change, and that we can rouse ourselves to exhibit gratitude – by respecting her limits – to the only planet Motherwe have ever known.
PRAYER TO THE GREAT AWARENESS (FOR THE AWAKENING.) HOME 2020 Archive – Alice Walkers Garden Official Website; HOME 2019 Archive – Alice Walkers Garden Official Website; HOME 2018 Archive – Alice Walkers Garden Official Website HORSES MAKE A LANDSCAPE LOOK MORE BEAUTIFUL In Alice Walker’s fourth collection of poetry, simple observations from a life well lived balance an unflinching examination of criticalglobal worries
RECENT BOOK: THE WORLD HAS CHANGED: CONVERSATIONS WITH Acclaimed author, poet, feminist, activist, and, at the age of just thirty-nine, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Literature, Alice Walker is one of our most extraordinary living writers. COMMENTARY: DAVID ICKE AND MALCOLM X I have not known of David Icke until recently; I owe the introduction to my partner who encouraged me to share a couple of videos with him. What I admire most about David Icke is the freedom of his mind. BOOK LIST | ALICE WALKER | THE OFFICIAL WEBSITE FOR The Chicken Chronicles, a Memoir, 2011. Novels. The Third Life of Grange Copeland. Meridian. The Color Purple. The Temple of My Familiar. Possessing the Secret of Joy. By the Light of My Father’s Smile. Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart. JANUARY | 2021 | ALICE WALKER | THE OFFICIAL WEBSITE FOR Cicely. 1924-2021. With your great skill, and compassion: Thank you for helping us bear this look in our eyes. ~aw. Con su gran habilidad y compasión: Gracias por ayudarnos a tener esta mirada en nuestros ojos. ~ aw. P.S. Tune in to the vibration of all of us reading Cicely’s book: Just As I Am, at the same time! BLOG | ALICE WALKER | THE OFFICIAL WEBSITE FOR AMERICAN Liberation News Audio Program Ramsey Clark Soundcloud. Photo: Dennis Banks, Fidel Castro, Alice Walker, Ramsey Clark, in Havana, April 1993. Credit: Gloria La Riva, photo and article. Liberation News Audio Program & Article Reprint 2021-04*. Ramsey Clark, former U.S. Attorney General and renowned international human-rights attorney who stoodONCE (1968)
ONCE (1968) This first volume of poetry established Alice Walker as a poet of unusual sensitivity and power. All of these poems were written either in East Africa, where Walker spent the summer of 1965, or during her senior year at Sarah Lawrence College. The collection is remarkably mature and varied: the opening group of graceful, wittypoems
TO CHANGE THE WORLD ENOUGH To Change the World Enough. To change the world enough. you must cease to be afraid. of the poor. We experience your fear as the least pardonable of. humiliations; in the past. it has sent us scurrying off. daunted and ashamed. into the shadows. THE SAME RIVER TWICE: HONORING THE DIFFICULT In Walker’s important new book, The Same River Twice: Honoring the Difficult, the Mendocino County-based author revisits the film set of The Color Purple, describing her personal reactions to the whole experience, in brave, naked detail. SWEET PEOPLE ARE EVERYWHERE in Iceland. and. in Russia. There are many sweet people in Korea. There are millions of sweet people in China. There are sweet people in Japan. If the sweet people were the leaders in these historically warring Asian countries. they would treat each other. much better! FEBRUARY | 2011 | ALICE WALKER | THE OFFICIAL WEBSITE FOR Ending The Age of Waste. ©2011 by Alice Walker. The most important thing humanity can do is believe in itself. That we can grow, that we can change, and that we can rouse ourselves to exhibit gratitude – by respecting her limits – to the only planet Mother we have everknown. -AW.
PRAYER TO THE GREAT AWARENESS (FOR THE AWAKENING.) We Are the Flag; Ramsey Clark dies: An Attorney General who turned against imperialism (Article Reprint 2021-04-10) What Does Truth Sound Like? Can We Still Tell? COMMENTARY: DAVID ICKE AND MALCOLM X I have not known of David Icke until recently; I owe the introduction to my partner who encouraged me to share a couple of videos with him. What I admire most about David Icke is the freedom of his mind. BOOK LIST | ALICE WALKER | THE OFFICIAL WEBSITE FOR The Chicken Chronicles, a Memoir, 2011. Novels. The Third Life of Grange Copeland. Meridian. The Color Purple. The Temple of My Familiar. Possessing the Secret of Joy. By the Light of My Father’s Smile. Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart. JANUARY | 2021 | ALICE WALKER | THE OFFICIAL WEBSITE FOR Cicely. 1924-2021. With your great skill, and compassion: Thank you for helping us bear this look in our eyes. ~aw. Con su gran habilidad y compasión: Gracias por ayudarnos a tener esta mirada en nuestros ojos. ~ aw. P.S. Tune in to the vibration of all of us reading Cicely’s book: Just As I Am, at the same time! BLOG | ALICE WALKER | THE OFFICIAL WEBSITE FOR AMERICAN Liberation News Audio Program Ramsey Clark Soundcloud. Photo: Dennis Banks, Fidel Castro, Alice Walker, Ramsey Clark, in Havana, April 1993. Credit: Gloria La Riva, photo and article. Liberation News Audio Program & Article Reprint 2021-04*. Ramsey Clark, former U.S. Attorney General and renowned international human-rights attorney who stoodONCE (1968)
ONCE (1968) This first volume of poetry established Alice Walker as a poet of unusual sensitivity and power. All of these poems were written either in East Africa, where Walker spent the summer of 1965, or during her senior year at Sarah Lawrence College. The collection is remarkably mature and varied: the opening group of graceful, wittypoems
TO CHANGE THE WORLD ENOUGH To Change the World Enough. To change the world enough. you must cease to be afraid. of the poor. We experience your fear as the least pardonable of. humiliations; in the past. it has sent us scurrying off. daunted and ashamed. into the shadows. THE SAME RIVER TWICE: HONORING THE DIFFICULT In Walker’s important new book, The Same River Twice: Honoring the Difficult, the Mendocino County-based author revisits the film set of The Color Purple, describing her personal reactions to the whole experience, in brave, naked detail. SWEET PEOPLE ARE EVERYWHERE in Iceland. and. in Russia. There are many sweet people in Korea. There are millions of sweet people in China. There are sweet people in Japan. If the sweet people were the leaders in these historically warring Asian countries. they would treat each other. much better! FEBRUARY | 2011 | ALICE WALKER | THE OFFICIAL WEBSITE FOR Ending The Age of Waste. ©2011 by Alice Walker. The most important thing humanity can do is believe in itself. That we can grow, that we can change, and that we can rouse ourselves to exhibit gratitude – by respecting her limits – to the only planet Mother we have everknown. -AW.
PRAYER TO THE GREAT AWARENESS (FOR THE AWAKENING.) We Are the Flag; Ramsey Clark dies: An Attorney General who turned against imperialism (Article Reprint 2021-04-10) What Does Truth Sound Like? Can We Still Tell? COMMENTARY: DAVID ICKE AND MALCOLM X I have not known of David Icke until recently; I owe the introduction to my partner who encouraged me to share a couple of videos with him. What I admire most about David Icke is the freedom of his mind. MY BOOKS | ALICE WALKER | THE OFFICIAL WEBSITE FOR In this exquisite book, Alice Walker’s first new collection of poetry since 1991, are poems that reaffirm her as “one of the best American writers of today” (The Washington Post). The forces of nature and the strength of the human spirit inspire the poems in Absolute Trust in the Goodness of the Earth. Alice Walker opens us tofeeling and
SEARCH | ALICE WALKER | THE OFFICIAL WEBSITE FOR AMERICAN search ». Copyright © 2021. All Rights Reserved. Powered by WordPress| Created with MettaWordPress| Created with Metta MLK | ALICE WALKER | THE OFFICIAL WEBSITE FOR AMERICAN We are the Ones We have been Waiting For. Alice Walker speaking about Martin Luther King, Jr (start time 9:37 to 39.25 end time) Atlanta,Georgia
“THEY ARE NOT NUMBERS” We Are Not Numbers. When Omar al-Manakosh was 2, his parents died in a car crash, and he had to raise himself and his brother until he was 20. He pursued a technical diploma and learned smartphones maintenance and wanted this to be his career, until he was killed today by Israeliwarplanes in #Gaza.
ONCE (1968)
ONCE (1968) This first volume of poetry established Alice Walker as a poet of unusual sensitivity and power. All of these poems were written either in East Africa, where Walker spent the summer of 1965, or during her senior year at Sarah Lawrence College. The collection is remarkably mature and varied: the opening group of graceful, wittypoems
MY DAUGHTER HITS IT ON THE HEAD: REBECCA WALKER ON LEAVING My Daughter Hits It On The Head: Rebecca Walker on Leaving the Intellectual Plantation. As far as I’m concerned, one of the duties of any child is to help her or his parents whenever that is possible. TO CHANGE THE WORLD ENOUGH To Change the World Enough. To change the world enough. you must cease to be afraid. of the poor. We experience your fear as the least pardonable of. humiliations; in the past. it has sent us scurrying off. daunted and ashamed. into the shadows. FEBRUARY | 2011 | ALICE WALKER | THE OFFICIAL WEBSITE FOR Ancestors of here. Ending The Age of Waste ©2011 by Alice Walker. The most important thing humanity can do is believe in itself. That we can grow, that we can change, and that we can rouse ourselves to exhibit gratitude – by respecting her limits – to the only planet Motherwe have ever known.
HORSES MAKE A LANDSCAPE LOOK MORE BEAUTIFUL In Alice Walker’s fourth collection of poetry, simple observations from a life well lived balance an unflinching examination of criticalglobal worries
COMMENTARY: DAVID ICKE AND MALCOLM X I have not known of David Icke until recently; I owe the introduction to my partner who encouraged me to share a couple of videos with him. What I admire most about David Icke is the freedom of his mind.ALICE WALKER
Alice Walker | The Official Website for American Novelist & Poet. We are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For. ~ June Jordan, poet, 1936-2002: Beloved and deeply missed. And who will join this standing up. and the ones who stood without sweet company. will sing and sing. back intothe
BOOK LIST | ALICE WALKER | THE OFFICIAL WEBSITE FOR The Chicken Chronicles, a Memoir, 2011. Novels. The Third Life of Grange Copeland. Meridian. The Color Purple. The Temple of My Familiar. Possessing the Secret of Joy. By the Light of My Father’s Smile. Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart. BLOG | ALICE WALKER | THE OFFICIAL WEBSITE FOR AMERICAN Liberation News Audio Program Ramsey Clark Soundcloud. Photo: Dennis Banks, Fidel Castro, Alice Walker, Ramsey Clark, in Havana, April 1993. Credit: Gloria La Riva, photo and article. Liberation News Audio Program & Article Reprint 2021-04*. Ramsey Clark, former U.S. Attorney General and renowned international human-rights attorney who stood IT IS OUR (FRIGHTFUL) DUTY TO STUDY THE TALMUD It Is Our (Frightful) Duty ©2017 by Alice Walker. To Study The Talmud 2017 by Alice Walker. The first time I was accused. Of appearing tobe anti-Semitic
REVOLUTIONARY PETUNIAS Revolutionary Petunias. These poems are about revolutionaries and lovers-about how, both in revolution and in love, loss of trust and compassion robs us of hope. They are also about (and for) those few embattled souls who remain painfully committed to beauty and to love even while facing the firing squad. “Quick, direct, witty,pungent”.
SWEET PEOPLE ARE EVERYWHERE in Iceland. and. in Russia. There are many sweet people in Korea. There are millions of sweet people in China. There are sweet people in Japan. If the sweet people were the leaders in these historically warring Asian countries. they would treat each other. much better! HOPE IS A WOMAN WHO HAS LOST HER FEAR Sundus Shaker Saleh and her children Hope Is a Woman Who Has Lost Her Fear. for Sundus Shaker Saleh, Iraqi Mother, with my love. ©2013 byAlice Walker
OPPRESSED HAIR PUTS A CEILING ON THE BRAIN OPPRESSED HAIR PUTS A CEILING ON THE BRAIN A talk given on Founders’ Day, April 11, 1987, at Spelman College in Atlanta. From Living By The Word: Selected Writings 1973-1987 by Alice Walker. As some of you no doubt know, I myself was a student here once, many moons ago. THE SAME RIVER TWICE: HONORING THE DIFFICULT In Walker’s important new book, The Same River Twice: Honoring the Difficult, the Mendocino County-based author revisits the film set of The Color Purple, describing her personal reactions to the whole experience, in brave, naked detail. HUMAN SUNRISE: A LETTER TO THE GRADUATING CLASS OF NAROPA From the new book The Cushion in the Road: Meditation and Wandering as the Whole World Awakens to being in Harm’s Way: Spring 2013. A Letter to the Graduating Class of Naropa UniversityALICE WALKER
Alice Walker | The Official Website for American Novelist & Poet. We are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For. ~ June Jordan, poet, 1936-2002: Beloved and deeply missed. And who will join this standing up. and the ones who stood without sweet company. will sing and sing. back intothe
BOOK LIST | ALICE WALKER | THE OFFICIAL WEBSITE FOR The Chicken Chronicles, a Memoir, 2011. Novels. The Third Life of Grange Copeland. Meridian. The Color Purple. The Temple of My Familiar. Possessing the Secret of Joy. By the Light of My Father’s Smile. Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart. BLOG | ALICE WALKER | THE OFFICIAL WEBSITE FOR AMERICAN Liberation News Audio Program Ramsey Clark Soundcloud. Photo: Dennis Banks, Fidel Castro, Alice Walker, Ramsey Clark, in Havana, April 1993. Credit: Gloria La Riva, photo and article. Liberation News Audio Program & Article Reprint 2021-04*. Ramsey Clark, former U.S. Attorney General and renowned international human-rights attorney who stood IT IS OUR (FRIGHTFUL) DUTY TO STUDY THE TALMUD It Is Our (Frightful) Duty ©2017 by Alice Walker. To Study The Talmud 2017 by Alice Walker. The first time I was accused. Of appearing tobe anti-Semitic
REVOLUTIONARY PETUNIAS Revolutionary Petunias. These poems are about revolutionaries and lovers-about how, both in revolution and in love, loss of trust and compassion robs us of hope. They are also about (and for) those few embattled souls who remain painfully committed to beauty and to love even while facing the firing squad. “Quick, direct, witty,pungent”.
SWEET PEOPLE ARE EVERYWHERE in Iceland. and. in Russia. There are many sweet people in Korea. There are millions of sweet people in China. There are sweet people in Japan. If the sweet people were the leaders in these historically warring Asian countries. they would treat each other. much better! HOPE IS A WOMAN WHO HAS LOST HER FEAR Sundus Shaker Saleh and her children Hope Is a Woman Who Has Lost Her Fear. for Sundus Shaker Saleh, Iraqi Mother, with my love. ©2013 byAlice Walker
OPPRESSED HAIR PUTS A CEILING ON THE BRAIN OPPRESSED HAIR PUTS A CEILING ON THE BRAIN A talk given on Founders’ Day, April 11, 1987, at Spelman College in Atlanta. From Living By The Word: Selected Writings 1973-1987 by Alice Walker. As some of you no doubt know, I myself was a student here once, many moons ago. THE SAME RIVER TWICE: HONORING THE DIFFICULT In Walker’s important new book, The Same River Twice: Honoring the Difficult, the Mendocino County-based author revisits the film set of The Color Purple, describing her personal reactions to the whole experience, in brave, naked detail. HUMAN SUNRISE: A LETTER TO THE GRADUATING CLASS OF NAROPA From the new book The Cushion in the Road: Meditation and Wandering as the Whole World Awakens to being in Harm’s Way: Spring 2013. A Letter to the Graduating Class of Naropa University MY BOOKS | ALICE WALKER | THE OFFICIAL WEBSITE FOR In this exquisite book, Alice Walker’s first new collection of poetry since 1991, are poems that reaffirm her as “one of the best American writers of today” (The Washington Post). The forces of nature and the strength of the human spirit inspire the poems in Absolute Trust in the Goodness of the Earth. Alice Walker opens us tofeeling and
ABOUT | ALICE WALKER | THE OFFICIAL WEBSITE FOR AMERICAN From “Democratic Motherism” in The world Will Follow Joy: Turning Madness Into Flowers . Alice Walker | Official Biography. Alice Walker is an internationally celebrated writer, poet and activist whose books include seven novels, four collections of short stories, four children’s books, and volumes ofUPCOMING EVENTS
“They Are Not Numbers” Mass Killing of Children and Whole Families; We Are the Flag; Ramsey Clark dies: An Attorney General who turned against imperialism (Article Reprint 2021-04-10) SEARCH | ALICE WALKER | THE OFFICIAL WEBSITE FOR AMERICAN search ». Copyright © 2021. All Rights Reserved. Powered by WordPress| Created with MettaWordPress| Created with Metta JANUARY | 2021 | ALICE WALKER | THE OFFICIAL WEBSITE FOR Cicely. 1924-2021. With your great skill, and compassion: Thank you for helping us bear this look in our eyes. ~aw. Con su gran habilidad y compasión: Gracias por ayudarnos a tener esta mirada en nuestros ojos. ~ aw. P.S. Tune in to the vibration of all of us reading Cicely’s book: Just As I Am, at the same time!THE WORLD RISING
The World Rising ©2017 by Alice Walker The world rising Can put an end To anything: The murder of children Whales Elephants Oceans. Getup. Roll over
POEMS | ALICE WALKER | THE OFFICIAL WEBSITE FOR AMERICAN Our Daughters Rising Or, In the Hammock With the I Ching. Nuestras hermanas se levantan. O en la hamaca con el I Ching. Heaven and water go their opposite ways: The image of CONFLICT. Thus in all his transactions the superior man. Carefully considers the beginning. –I Ching or Book of Changes. BOOK: THE COLOR PURPLE Tayari Jones writes: Some novels contain characters—folks that can live only within the confines of a book—but The Color Purple features people—folks that exit the pages and move in with you like relatives from out of town. We know that a work has thoroughly permeated the culture when the names of the characters become acomplex shorthand.
ONCE (1968)
ONCE (1968) This first volume of poetry established Alice Walker as a poet of unusual sensitivity and power. All of these poems were written either in East Africa, where Walker spent the summer of 1965, or during her senior year at Sarah Lawrence College. The collection is remarkably mature and varied: the opening group of graceful, wittypoems
“THEY ARE NOT NUMBERS” We Are Not Numbers. When Omar al-Manakosh was 2, his parents died in a car crash, and he had to raise himself and his brother until he was 20. He pursued a technical diploma and learned smartphones maintenance and wanted this to be his career, until he was killed today by Israeli warplanes in #Gaza. Omar al-Manakosh Palestine Young Man killed MY BOOKS | ALICE WALKER | THE OFFICIAL WEBSITE FOR In this exquisite book, Alice Walker’s first new collection of poetry since 1991, are poems that reaffirm her as “one of the best American writers of today” (The Washington Post). The forces of nature and the strength of the human spirit inspire the poems in Absolute Trust in the Goodness of the Earth. Alice Walker opens us tofeeling and
BOOK LIST | ALICE WALKER | THE OFFICIAL WEBSITE FOR The Chicken Chronicles, a Memoir, 2011. Novels. The Third Life of Grange Copeland. Meridian. The Color Purple. The Temple of My Familiar. Possessing the Secret of Joy. By the Light of My Father’s Smile. Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart. ABOUT | ALICE WALKER | THE OFFICIAL WEBSITE FOR AMERICAN From “Democratic Motherism” in The world Will Follow Joy: Turning Madness Into Flowers . Alice Walker | Official Biography. Alice Walker is an internationally celebrated writer, poet and activist whose books include seven novels, four collections of short stories, four children’s books, and volumes of BLOG | ALICE WALKER | THE OFFICIAL WEBSITE FOR AMERICAN Liberation News Audio Program Ramsey Clark Soundcloud. Photo: Dennis Banks, Fidel Castro, Alice Walker, Ramsey Clark, in Havana, April 1993. Credit: Gloria La Riva, photo and article. Liberation News Audio Program & Article Reprint 2021-04*. Ramsey Clark, former U.S. Attorney General and renowned international human-rights attorney who stood JANUARY | 2021 | ALICE WALKER | THE OFFICIAL WEBSITE FORALICE WALKER BOOKSALICE WALKER POEMALICE WALKER WORKS OF LITERATUREALICE WALKER WRITTEN WORKSALICE WALKER EVERYDAY USEALICE WALKER HISTORY Cicely. 1924-2021. With your great skill, and compassion: Thank you for helping us bear this look in our eyes. ~aw. Con su gran habilidad y compasión: Gracias por ayudarnos a tener esta mirada en nuestros ojos. ~ aw. P.S. Tune in to the vibration of all of us reading Cicely’s book: Just As I Am, at the same time! BLOG ENTRIES BY DATE February 6, 1945 February 6, 2020. The Audacity of the Cruel: Long Live Palestine! (From the Archives) February 5, 2020. January. Running For Our Lives: The Race For Leadership Of the Unfree World January 22, 2020. January 15, 1929 Is A Sacred Date January 15, 2020. IT IS OUR (FRIGHTFUL) DUTY TO STUDY THE TALMUD It Is Our (Frightful) Duty ©2017 by Alice Walker. To Study The Talmud 2017 by Alice Walker. The first time I was accused. Of appearing tobe anti-Semitic
MY DAUGHTER HITS IT ON THE HEAD: REBECCA WALKER ON LEAVINGREBECCA WALKERALICE WALKER BIOGRAPHYALICE WALKER GIRLFRIENDALICE WALKER POETRYREBECCA WALKER ALICE WALKER FEUD My Daughter Hits It On The Head: Rebecca Walker on Leaving the Intellectual Plantation. As far as I’m concerned, one of the duties of any child is to help her or his parents whenever that is possible. HOPE IS A WOMAN WHO HAS LOST HER FEAR Sundus Shaker Saleh and her children Hope Is a Woman Who Has Lost Her Fear. for Sundus Shaker Saleh, Iraqi Mother, with my love. ©2013 byAlice Walker
THE SAME RIVER TWICE: HONORING THE DIFFICULT In Walker’s important new book, The Same River Twice: Honoring the Difficult, the Mendocino County-based author revisits the film set of The Color Purple, describing her personal reactions to the whole experience, in brave, naked detail. MY BOOKS | ALICE WALKER | THE OFFICIAL WEBSITE FOR In this exquisite book, Alice Walker’s first new collection of poetry since 1991, are poems that reaffirm her as “one of the best American writers of today” (The Washington Post). The forces of nature and the strength of the human spirit inspire the poems in Absolute Trust in the Goodness of the Earth. Alice Walker opens us tofeeling and
BOOK LIST | ALICE WALKER | THE OFFICIAL WEBSITE FOR The Chicken Chronicles, a Memoir, 2011. Novels. The Third Life of Grange Copeland. Meridian. The Color Purple. The Temple of My Familiar. Possessing the Secret of Joy. By the Light of My Father’s Smile. Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart. ABOUT | ALICE WALKER | THE OFFICIAL WEBSITE FOR AMERICAN From “Democratic Motherism” in The world Will Follow Joy: Turning Madness Into Flowers . Alice Walker | Official Biography. Alice Walker is an internationally celebrated writer, poet and activist whose books include seven novels, four collections of short stories, four children’s books, and volumes of BLOG | ALICE WALKER | THE OFFICIAL WEBSITE FOR AMERICAN Liberation News Audio Program Ramsey Clark Soundcloud. Photo: Dennis Banks, Fidel Castro, Alice Walker, Ramsey Clark, in Havana, April 1993. Credit: Gloria La Riva, photo and article. Liberation News Audio Program & Article Reprint 2021-04*. Ramsey Clark, former U.S. Attorney General and renowned international human-rights attorney who stood JANUARY | 2021 | ALICE WALKER | THE OFFICIAL WEBSITE FORALICE WALKER BOOKSALICE WALKER POEMALICE WALKER WORKS OF LITERATUREALICE WALKER WRITTEN WORKSALICE WALKER EVERYDAY USEALICE WALKER HISTORY Cicely. 1924-2021. With your great skill, and compassion: Thank you for helping us bear this look in our eyes. ~aw. Con su gran habilidad y compasión: Gracias por ayudarnos a tener esta mirada en nuestros ojos. ~ aw. P.S. Tune in to the vibration of all of us reading Cicely’s book: Just As I Am, at the same time! BLOG ENTRIES BY DATE February 6, 1945 February 6, 2020. The Audacity of the Cruel: Long Live Palestine! (From the Archives) February 5, 2020. January. Running For Our Lives: The Race For Leadership Of the Unfree World January 22, 2020. January 15, 1929 Is A Sacred Date January 15, 2020. IT IS OUR (FRIGHTFUL) DUTY TO STUDY THE TALMUD It Is Our (Frightful) Duty ©2017 by Alice Walker. To Study The Talmud 2017 by Alice Walker. The first time I was accused. Of appearing tobe anti-Semitic
MY DAUGHTER HITS IT ON THE HEAD: REBECCA WALKER ON LEAVINGREBECCA WALKERALICE WALKER BIOGRAPHYALICE WALKER GIRLFRIENDALICE WALKER POETRYREBECCA WALKER ALICE WALKER FEUD My Daughter Hits It On The Head: Rebecca Walker on Leaving the Intellectual Plantation. As far as I’m concerned, one of the duties of any child is to help her or his parents whenever that is possible. HOPE IS A WOMAN WHO HAS LOST HER FEAR Sundus Shaker Saleh and her children Hope Is a Woman Who Has Lost Her Fear. for Sundus Shaker Saleh, Iraqi Mother, with my love. ©2013 byAlice Walker
THE SAME RIVER TWICE: HONORING THE DIFFICULT In Walker’s important new book, The Same River Twice: Honoring the Difficult, the Mendocino County-based author revisits the film set of The Color Purple, describing her personal reactions to the whole experience, in brave, naked detail. ABOUT | ALICE WALKER | THE OFFICIAL WEBSITE FOR AMERICAN From “Democratic Motherism” in The world Will Follow Joy: Turning Madness Into Flowers . Alice Walker | Official Biography. Alice Walker is an internationally celebrated writer, poet and activist whose books include seven novels, four collections of short stories, four children’s books, and volumes of POEMS | ALICE WALKER | THE OFFICIAL WEBSITE FOR AMERICAN Our Daughters Rising Or, In the Hammock With the I Ching. Nuestras hermanas se levantan. O en la hamaca con el I Ching. Heaven and water go their opposite ways: The image of CONFLICT. Thus in all his transactions the superior man. Carefully considers the beginning. –I Ching or Book of Changes. BLOG ENTRIES BY DATE February 6, 1945 February 6, 2020. The Audacity of the Cruel: Long Live Palestine! (From the Archives) February 5, 2020. January. Running For Our Lives: The Race For Leadership Of the Unfree World January 22, 2020. January 15, 1929 Is A Sacred Date January 15, 2020.ONCE (1968)
ONCE (1968) This first volume of poetry established Alice Walker as a poet of unusual sensitivity and power. All of these poems were written either in East Africa, where Walker spent the summer of 1965, or during her senior year at Sarah Lawrence College. The collection is remarkably mature and varied: the opening group of graceful, wittypoems
“THEY ARE NOT NUMBERS” We Are Not Numbers. When Omar al-Manakosh was 2, his parents died in a car crash, and he had to raise himself and his brother until he was 20. He pursued a technical diploma and learned smartphones maintenance and wanted this to be his career, until he was killed today by Israeli warplanes in #Gaza. Omar al-Manakosh Palestine Young Man killed TO CHANGE THE WORLD ENOUGH To Change the World Enough. To change the world enough. you must cease to be afraid. of the poor. We experience your fear as the least pardonable of. humiliations; in the past. it has sent us scurrying off. daunted and ashamed. into the shadows. THE SAME RIVER TWICE: HONORING THE DIFFICULT In Walker’s important new book, The Same River Twice: Honoring the Difficult, the Mendocino County-based author revisits the film set of The Color Purple, describing her personal reactions to the whole experience, in brave, naked detail. WE ARE THE ONES WE HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR “It is the worst of times. It is the best of times. Try as I might I cannot find a more appropriate opening for this volume.” In We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For, Alice Walker, Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Color Purple , draws on her deep spiritual grounding, her passionate political convictions and her extraordinary literary gifts to give us a series of meditations on the HUMAN SUNRISE: A LETTER TO THE GRADUATING CLASS OF NAROPA From the new book The Cushion in the Road: Meditation and Wandering as the Whole World Awakens to being in Harm’s Way: Spring 2013. A Letter to the Graduating Class of Naropa University COMMENTARY: DAVID ICKE AND MALCOLM X I have not known of David Icke until recently; I owe the introduction to my partner who encouraged me to share a couple of videos with him. What I admire most about David Icke is the freedom of his mind. MY BOOKS | ALICE WALKER | THE OFFICIAL WEBSITE FOR In this exquisite book, Alice Walker’s first new collection of poetry since 1991, are poems that reaffirm her as “one of the best American writers of today” (The Washington Post). The forces of nature and the strength of the human spirit inspire the poems in Absolute Trust in the Goodness of the Earth. Alice Walker opens us tofeeling and
BOOK LIST | ALICE WALKER | THE OFFICIAL WEBSITE FOR The Chicken Chronicles, a Memoir, 2011. Novels. The Third Life of Grange Copeland. Meridian. The Color Purple. The Temple of My Familiar. Possessing the Secret of Joy. By the Light of My Father’s Smile. Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart. ABOUT | ALICE WALKER | THE OFFICIAL WEBSITE FOR AMERICAN From “Democratic Motherism” in The world Will Follow Joy: Turning Madness Into Flowers . Alice Walker | Official Biography. Alice Walker is an internationally celebrated writer, poet and activist whose books include seven novels, four collections of short stories, four children’s books, and volumes of BLOG | ALICE WALKER | THE OFFICIAL WEBSITE FOR AMERICAN Liberation News Audio Program Ramsey Clark Soundcloud. Photo: Dennis Banks, Fidel Castro, Alice Walker, Ramsey Clark, in Havana, April 1993. Credit: Gloria La Riva, photo and article. Liberation News Audio Program & Article Reprint 2021-04*. Ramsey Clark, former U.S. Attorney General and renowned international human-rights attorney who stood JANUARY | 2021 | ALICE WALKER | THE OFFICIAL WEBSITE FORALICE WALKER BOOKSALICE WALKER POEMALICE WALKER WORKS OF LITERATUREALICE WALKER WRITTEN WORKSALICE WALKER EVERYDAY USEALICE WALKER HISTORY Cicely. 1924-2021. With your great skill, and compassion: Thank you for helping us bear this look in our eyes. ~aw. Con su gran habilidad y compasión: Gracias por ayudarnos a tener esta mirada en nuestros ojos. ~ aw. P.S. Tune in to the vibration of all of us reading Cicely’s book: Just As I Am, at the same time! BLOG ENTRIES BY DATE February 6, 1945 February 6, 2020. The Audacity of the Cruel: Long Live Palestine! (From the Archives) February 5, 2020. January. Running For Our Lives: The Race For Leadership Of the Unfree World January 22, 2020. January 15, 1929 Is A Sacred Date January 15, 2020. IT IS OUR (FRIGHTFUL) DUTY TO STUDY THE TALMUD It Is Our (Frightful) Duty ©2017 by Alice Walker. To Study The Talmud 2017 by Alice Walker. The first time I was accused. Of appearing tobe anti-Semitic
MY DAUGHTER HITS IT ON THE HEAD: REBECCA WALKER ON LEAVINGREBECCA WALKERALICE WALKER BIOGRAPHYALICE WALKER GIRLFRIENDALICE WALKER POETRYREBECCA WALKER ALICE WALKER FEUD My Daughter Hits It On The Head: Rebecca Walker on Leaving the Intellectual Plantation. As far as I’m concerned, one of the duties of any child is to help her or his parents whenever that is possible. HOPE IS A WOMAN WHO HAS LOST HER FEAR Sundus Shaker Saleh and her children Hope Is a Woman Who Has Lost Her Fear. for Sundus Shaker Saleh, Iraqi Mother, with my love. ©2013 byAlice Walker
THE SAME RIVER TWICE: HONORING THE DIFFICULT In Walker’s important new book, The Same River Twice: Honoring the Difficult, the Mendocino County-based author revisits the film set of The Color Purple, describing her personal reactions to the whole experience, in brave, naked detail. MY BOOKS | ALICE WALKER | THE OFFICIAL WEBSITE FOR In this exquisite book, Alice Walker’s first new collection of poetry since 1991, are poems that reaffirm her as “one of the best American writers of today” (The Washington Post). The forces of nature and the strength of the human spirit inspire the poems in Absolute Trust in the Goodness of the Earth. Alice Walker opens us tofeeling and
BOOK LIST | ALICE WALKER | THE OFFICIAL WEBSITE FOR The Chicken Chronicles, a Memoir, 2011. Novels. The Third Life of Grange Copeland. Meridian. The Color Purple. The Temple of My Familiar. Possessing the Secret of Joy. By the Light of My Father’s Smile. Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart. ABOUT | ALICE WALKER | THE OFFICIAL WEBSITE FOR AMERICAN From “Democratic Motherism” in The world Will Follow Joy: Turning Madness Into Flowers . Alice Walker | Official Biography. Alice Walker is an internationally celebrated writer, poet and activist whose books include seven novels, four collections of short stories, four children’s books, and volumes of BLOG | ALICE WALKER | THE OFFICIAL WEBSITE FOR AMERICAN Liberation News Audio Program Ramsey Clark Soundcloud. Photo: Dennis Banks, Fidel Castro, Alice Walker, Ramsey Clark, in Havana, April 1993. Credit: Gloria La Riva, photo and article. Liberation News Audio Program & Article Reprint 2021-04*. Ramsey Clark, former U.S. Attorney General and renowned international human-rights attorney who stood JANUARY | 2021 | ALICE WALKER | THE OFFICIAL WEBSITE FORALICE WALKER BOOKSALICE WALKER POEMALICE WALKER WORKS OF LITERATUREALICE WALKER WRITTEN WORKSALICE WALKER EVERYDAY USEALICE WALKER HISTORY Cicely. 1924-2021. With your great skill, and compassion: Thank you for helping us bear this look in our eyes. ~aw. Con su gran habilidad y compasión: Gracias por ayudarnos a tener esta mirada en nuestros ojos. ~ aw. P.S. Tune in to the vibration of all of us reading Cicely’s book: Just As I Am, at the same time! BLOG ENTRIES BY DATE February 6, 1945 February 6, 2020. The Audacity of the Cruel: Long Live Palestine! (From the Archives) February 5, 2020. January. Running For Our Lives: The Race For Leadership Of the Unfree World January 22, 2020. January 15, 1929 Is A Sacred Date January 15, 2020. IT IS OUR (FRIGHTFUL) DUTY TO STUDY THE TALMUD It Is Our (Frightful) Duty ©2017 by Alice Walker. To Study The Talmud 2017 by Alice Walker. The first time I was accused. Of appearing tobe anti-Semitic
MY DAUGHTER HITS IT ON THE HEAD: REBECCA WALKER ON LEAVINGREBECCA WALKERALICE WALKER BIOGRAPHYALICE WALKER GIRLFRIENDALICE WALKER POETRYREBECCA WALKER ALICE WALKER FEUD My Daughter Hits It On The Head: Rebecca Walker on Leaving the Intellectual Plantation. As far as I’m concerned, one of the duties of any child is to help her or his parents whenever that is possible. HOPE IS A WOMAN WHO HAS LOST HER FEAR Sundus Shaker Saleh and her children Hope Is a Woman Who Has Lost Her Fear. for Sundus Shaker Saleh, Iraqi Mother, with my love. ©2013 byAlice Walker
THE SAME RIVER TWICE: HONORING THE DIFFICULT In Walker’s important new book, The Same River Twice: Honoring the Difficult, the Mendocino County-based author revisits the film set of The Color Purple, describing her personal reactions to the whole experience, in brave, naked detail. ABOUT | ALICE WALKER | THE OFFICIAL WEBSITE FOR AMERICAN From “Democratic Motherism” in The world Will Follow Joy: Turning Madness Into Flowers . Alice Walker | Official Biography. Alice Walker is an internationally celebrated writer, poet and activist whose books include seven novels, four collections of short stories, four children’s books, and volumes of POEMS | ALICE WALKER | THE OFFICIAL WEBSITE FOR AMERICAN Our Daughters Rising Or, In the Hammock With the I Ching. Nuestras hermanas se levantan. O en la hamaca con el I Ching. Heaven and water go their opposite ways: The image of CONFLICT. Thus in all his transactions the superior man. Carefully considers the beginning. –I Ching or Book of Changes. BLOG ENTRIES BY DATE February 6, 1945 February 6, 2020. The Audacity of the Cruel: Long Live Palestine! (From the Archives) February 5, 2020. January. Running For Our Lives: The Race For Leadership Of the Unfree World January 22, 2020. January 15, 1929 Is A Sacred Date January 15, 2020.ONCE (1968)
ONCE (1968) This first volume of poetry established Alice Walker as a poet of unusual sensitivity and power. All of these poems were written either in East Africa, where Walker spent the summer of 1965, or during her senior year at Sarah Lawrence College. The collection is remarkably mature and varied: the opening group of graceful, wittypoems
“THEY ARE NOT NUMBERS” We Are Not Numbers. When Omar al-Manakosh was 2, his parents died in a car crash, and he had to raise himself and his brother until he was 20. He pursued a technical diploma and learned smartphones maintenance and wanted this to be his career, until he was killed today by Israeli warplanes in #Gaza. Omar al-Manakosh Palestine Young Man killed TO CHANGE THE WORLD ENOUGH To Change the World Enough. To change the world enough. you must cease to be afraid. of the poor. We experience your fear as the least pardonable of. humiliations; in the past. it has sent us scurrying off. daunted and ashamed. into the shadows. THE SAME RIVER TWICE: HONORING THE DIFFICULT In Walker’s important new book, The Same River Twice: Honoring the Difficult, the Mendocino County-based author revisits the film set of The Color Purple, describing her personal reactions to the whole experience, in brave, naked detail. WE ARE THE ONES WE HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR “It is the worst of times. It is the best of times. Try as I might I cannot find a more appropriate opening for this volume.” In We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For, Alice Walker, Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Color Purple , draws on her deep spiritual grounding, her passionate political convictions and her extraordinary literary gifts to give us a series of meditations on the HUMAN SUNRISE: A LETTER TO THE GRADUATING CLASS OF NAROPA From the new book The Cushion in the Road: Meditation and Wandering as the Whole World Awakens to being in Harm’s Way: Spring 2013. A Letter to the Graduating Class of Naropa University COMMENTARY: DAVID ICKE AND MALCOLM X I have not known of David Icke until recently; I owe the introduction to my partner who encouraged me to share a couple of videos with him. What I admire most about David Icke is the freedom of his mind.* Home
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_We Have Been Waiting For _ _Resistance is The Secret of Joy _ How to read this page: The Spanish translation, by Cuban poet Manuel Verdecia, will usually appear shortly after the English post. Scroll down to other, earlier entries in English and Spanish. Amanda Navarro is webmaster. There’s a limit to how much we can change ourselves, unless we’realso changing
our relationships and our neighborhood, our workplace, our community,at the same time.
_-Paul Kivel, Men’s Work: How to Stop the Violence That Tears OurLives Apart _
_The world is the altar on which I place my offering. -_AWAUGUST 2019
THIS IS NOT A TWEET: NOTHING TO SEE: MOVE ALONG. 2019 by Alice Walker Lucky are those whose hearts are broken Regularly. So many cracks appear it is unlikely No light will come streaming through.* With time One becomes almost immune To the pain. But not quite. And that is The important thing. All those things you thought you’d help fix! All those things you thought you understood! All that pain you thought was over, anyway! Then you have new pain that makes you relive The agony already outgrown. Or so you had thought. HEAVY by Kiese Laymon brings awareness that the work of liberation done in Jackson, Mississippi long before young Laymon’s birth, was ultimately not done, or was not done well enough. Or was perhaps impossible to do. Which I sometimes felt was true. The suffering of his childhood! Seven years we spent* dreaming a childhood for him, for all black children (and ultimately white ones too, in that state) that would have a foundation not just in a first rate education but in an intimacy with joy. Didn’t happen, as his harshly honest memoir attests. And what of his mother? Caught between the needs of creativity, love, mothering, pushing the race forward, and surviving in a land where not one of us was safe. Her desperation, fear of falling backward, dread that her only son might become another EmmettTill.
Did we fail you, Beautiful Son, because we did not fight long enough, there where you were born? Did not love strongly enough? Did not die from bullets and bombs, broken hearts, depression and soul wounds sufficiently enough? But you have come through, anyway. So did we fail completely? In you I see the soul of black folk. As DuBois thought we might. Now that your inner mirror is clear, I know you see this too. There is a purpose to all this suffering. In fact, as an elder, I can begin to see suffering as a birth. A birth of soul. A growth of it. Now the old hymns and spirituals begin to make sense, though most need liberating from a context theyhave outgrown.
Thank you for HEAVY. Thinking of your journey, Beloved Son, (so harsh I nearly stopped reading after a hundred pages) I am reminded of my sense, since birth, apparently, that we are on a journey that has no end. That after so much suffering perhaps we will have many days in the sun, as a flower. Then, who knows, refreshed by wind and rain, we might begin again: sensing more, enduring more, learning more of the essence of Life Itself because the experience of ever expanding consciousness is the true unending endeavor of thisrealm.
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_*Leonard Cohen, a soul mate, wrote a song about this._ _*My civil rights lawyer husband, Mel Leventhal, and myself, busily being “ friends” to the children of Mississippi. 1966-1973._BOOK TWO:
There is synchronicity all over the place. And so just as I was opening Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers book THEY WERE HER PROPERTY: WHITE WOMEN SLAVE OWNERS IN THE AMERICAN SOUTH, I was hearing Ta-Nehisi Coates speak brilliantly about the need for Americans to consider, with the coolest of minds, the need to repair the harm that capture in Africa, enslavement, unjust laws and continuing terrorism have done to the collective community of blacksouls in America.
Till recently, I had avoided this conversation. Too painful. Too insulting to my pride. Too many memories. Of a father, toward the end of his life, begging for Social Security, and being denied it after a lifetime of work. A whole year’s labor not always netting 300 dollars in cash. While his employers flourished. Who wants to think of this? And so I never asked for anything. And the whole conversation about reparations passed over me. But now, reading about white women and their slaves in the old South, something sticks: Many of the white people today who are against reparations of any sort – and Coates is speaking more of policy than of cash – had ancestors who were suckled on black women’s milk. Yes. Even our mothers’ milk was stolen from us. Not only that, these mothers were sometimes forcibly impregnated (raped) so that black slave and white wife would “freshen” at the same time. And the white woman could keep her figure and her unbroken rest at night, while our foremothers rushed to give whatever milk was left after suckling a white child, to their own offspring. _How can the nation repair this? _ Just the thought: Rhett Butler, Ashley Wilkes, Scarlett O’Hara herself and certainly Melanie and Miss Pitty Pat (characters in GONE WITH THE WIND) all were nourished on black women’s milk. And presidents and senators and criminals in high office: their straight teeth and strong bones “inherited” like the plantations , factories and railroads just “naturally” left to them.CONSCIOUS COWS
_What did you learn,_ _Those endless nights,_ _ Great grandmothers?__Did you learn _
_As your owners did not__That all children_
_Are the same?_
_And is this not_
_Intelligence_
_Worth knowing?_
Our journey here has been breathtaking in its obstacles and yet I feel we have done well. As well as any people could. I feel great pride in us. As I see it, all any black people have asked for is a fair and equal playing field. Which is what Coates, I believe, is saying. Given that, we are delighted to be on our own. We tend to get so happy, even briefly experiencing this, that we readily invite white people, and others, to join us. _I cherish our heart. _When treated with respect, undrugged and uncaged, it manages to grow in sweetness, even here. It is like a wild rose that, crushed, gives offperfume.
_P.S. WE MIGHT YET BECOME A SOULFUL AMERICA: SEE PRESIDENTIAL POSSIBILITY MARIANNE WILLIAMSON ON REPARATIONS. _***
I had not seen this program before. But was encouraged to watch/listen because CONFESSIONS OF AN ECONOMIC HIT MAN, by John Perkins, a book fundamental to understanding US foreign policy, was mentioned in the first five minutes. As well it is instructive of how we are routinely robbed of housing. _We have lost a great writer whose extraordinary novels leave an indelible imprint on the consciousness of all who read them. What a force her thoughts have been and how grateful we must be that they were offered to us in this extremely challenging age._Alice Walker
_THE SISTERHOOD, THE 1970S_ We met beneath a framed photograph of Bessie Smith, who lived her life because it was hers. Toni Morrison, June Jordan, Audre Ballard, Ntozake Shange, Lori Sharpe, Nana Maynard, Verta Mae Grosvenor, Alice Walker. All for one, and one for all. So may it always be.JULY 2019
_The wonder of belonging…_ _Thank you, and blessings to the sweet people of Eatonton, Georgia, from around the country, and around the world, who showed up in loving ways for this amazing celebration. Let it be known far and wide that we have- together, this time- begun the dance of Life again. -AW_ _A worthwhile intervention… and funny too!_ OTHER PEOPLE’S BOOKS! OR, MY TROUBLING NIGHTSTAND (_There is a back end for posting “Other People’s Everything,” brief comments on books I have read, but for some reason I can’tfind it today.)_
Some books are challenging to “finish.” You find yourself reading and re-reading them. Dipping into them when you are actually done, or so you thought, and are already reading something else. SMALL FRY by Lisa Brennan-Jobs, (daughter of Apple computer creator Steve Jobs) a book my daughter was reading while visiting my house, was that book, recently, for me. Who was Steve Jobs, really? How much of an Earthling was he? Why was he such a cruel parent to this marvelous writer and exacting memorialist? And what of her mother, Chrisann Brennan, disdained by her daughter while growing up, for being something I had thought wonderful: a stone hippie, a state of being that I considered evolution for white people. It is such a fine book! And, in fact, I can see in it some parts of why my daughter was reading it, and left it in my house. This parent/child territory is so under-explored. Especially when parents separate and the child’s heart is required to re-balance its affection, trust, love, and especially its imagination about a future. And what of the heart-shocked parents? Usually worried, overworked, lonely, and scared. And so on! _Many, many stars._ TINA TURNER, MY LOVE STORY, by Tina Turner, is a delight. A true rags to riches tale of a princess whom her sorely misguided first husband, Ike Turner, took to be a drudge. Tina’s spirit is recognizable as one that always shows up somewhere, somehow, in life, no matter where the body that carries it is wandering. It will not take defeat as conclusive; it will never resist the urge to fly – if only on a rope over a stream that to others seems a bit too wide. I love the spirit of this woman. Is it showing us where the African, the Indigenous, the European contributions to soul meet and merge? I imagine spirits mingle as bloods do. In any case, a book to read on a long plane ride, or during a week of solitude in the country, or while sitting beside someone who is leisurely leaving this reality in a hospital. There is courage, faith, daring, outrageousness, and always, amazingly, the comfort of knowing how to be both naturally good hearted and generous, and to follow one’s bliss, as love shows up, unannounced, and beckons to you. Then, alas, there is: THEY WERE HER PROPERTY: WHITE WOMEN AS SLAVE OWNERS IN THE AMERICAN SOUTH, by Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers. (More on this after I go “home” to re-visit my own Southern, Georgia roots, in a small town, Eatonton, that, to my astonishment, is collectively celebrating my 75th birthday!)JUNE 2019
_HAPPY SUMMER SOLSTICE!_ _ I BELIEVE IT IS HER THINKING/WRITING/SPIRIT BUT NOT HER VOICE. –AW_
Source: Art and design | The Guardian 13 Jun 2019 RONALD BERNARD “SATANIC CHILD SACRIFICE” April 2018 Testimony /International Tribunal For Natural Justice Most of us know there is something terribly wrong with the world. We learn this early from such troublesome issues as not having a decent pair of shoes, or a satisfying meal. Or parents and community too stressed to give us the attention we need to grow as us, rather than as some throw-a-way character on television or in movies. In my childhood it seemed the white man had all of what there was of EVERYTHING. How he got it, I had no idea. It was a given. So tospeak.
This has made it a challenge, not just for me, but for many people in the world, to see beyond the facade. To see, and more importantly, to feel, what “the white man” has to say for himself, in terms of his nightmares and traumas. About thirty-five years ago I received the distinct impression that I must begin to really see “the white man.” Being a novelist I created him first as a character, an Albino child, in his birthplace of Africa. But this wasn’t enough. I needed to find white men who were speaking from their deepest hearts, divulging their deepest truths. I see this as essential work for the planet to transform, perhaps even to heal. I was especially instructed (by Spirit) to speak to young white men, to whom the world must seem – to some of them, the most intuitive and thoughtful – a huge burden they have inherited without sufficient guidance to know which way to go. Older white men, who should be of help, being too often self-blinded by fear, and escapism in its many forms. I am deeply moved by this tribunal of apparently regular folks trying, on their own, to bring their suffering and their healing to the light on an artificially en-darkened planet. And by doing so letting themselves be seen in a nakedness that we have rarely, if ever, seen before. This candid recounting of his life by former Dutch banker Roland Bernard is a huge gift to our understanding of some of the deep-seated trauma that undergirds much of the cruelty and injustice in the world; also the fear and indifference. Then, there is the light in his eyes, as he grinds through the horrors of his tale, and we see that most precious of sights: a human being reclaiming his soul; and his right to happiness.MAY 2019
“WHEN A CAUSE COMES ALONG AND YOU KNOW IN YOUR BONES THAT IT IS JUST, YET REFUSE TO DEFEND IT–AT THAT MOMENT YOU BEGIN TO DIE. AND I HAVE NEVER SEEN SO MANY CORPSES WALKING AROUND TALKING ABOUTJUSTICE.”
_-Mumia Abu-Jamal*_
_HEAVEN AND WATER GO THEIR OPPOSITE WAYS:_ _THE IMAGE OF CONFLICT_ _THUS IN ALL HIS TRANSACTIONS THE SUPERIOR MAN_ _CAREFULLY CONSIDERS THE BEGINNING._ _ -_I CHING OR BOOK OF CHANGES _ _THE RICHARD WILHELMTRANSLATION
FOREWORD BY CG JUNG
OUR DAUGHTERS RISING OR, IN THE HAMMOCK WITH THE I CHING 2019 by Alice Walker In the hammock with the I Ching, Which favors the fate of superior menSo overwhelmingly,
I am reminded of eons past When women had no say That was not ridiculedOr silenced,
And I wonder why I stillCling to it.
It is poetry, of course, It is also a record of the problem. I believe in records Though this is amusing Since I also believeThe present is all
There is. This momentHere. Right now.
With you.
Where is your yesterday? Where is your tomorrow?Gone and not yet.
This moment then,
Of studious bliss,
Considering the past And its ignorant errors; Imagining the futureThat is not yet.
Here’s the thing:
Learning from the recorded past Is so… _delicious._ Only a seasoned time traveller Would think to think like that. Anticipating the future can be fun Not merely _dreadful_. I am solidly with the Mother However it goes down. I am content to return a thousand times Or come back not at all. Her wordIs law.
But as I yield to the presentHow happy I am
this very moment
-and who can anticipate how long this moment will last?-To witness
Across an age that
Has seemed forever
Our finally
Irrepressible
Intelligent and strong, Courageous and beautiful,and_ many_!
_ Daughters rising.__ ***_
NUESTRAS HIJAS SE LEVANTAN O EN LA HAMACA CON EL I _CHING__****_
_Netflix: KNOCK DOWN THE HOUSE_ _Women of feeling and courage work to get there._ Coming Soon: RENEGADE: The Life Story of David Icke _Banned premieres in London and L.A. But the people found a way!_ Already here: WHITE LIES – _ Maori medicine from Aotearoa_.Netflix
Just published Murder Incorporated, America’s Favorite Pastime: Empire, Genocide, Manifest Destiny* Book Two of Three! (Volumes)by Mumia Abu-Jamal
& Stephen Vittoria
_Mumia proves we have NO excuse!_****
APRIL 2019
_THE GOSPEL (GOOD NEWS) ACCORDING TO SHUG_ _TO BLESS IS TO HELP.__ _
_“HELPED are those who are content to be themselves; they will never lack mystery in their lives and the joys of self-discovery will beconstant._
_HELPED are those who love the entire cosmos rather than their own tiny country, city, or farm, for to them will be shown the unbroken web of life and the meaning of infinity._ _HELPED are those who live in quietness, knowing neither brand name nor fad; they shall live every day as if in eternity, and each moment shall be as full as it is long._ _HELPED are those who love others unsplit off from their faults; to them will be given clarity of vision._ _HELPED are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of their own conception, and realize a partnership in the creation of the Universe that keeps them responsible and __cheerful._ _HELPED are those who love the Earth, their mother, and who willingly suffer that she may not die; in their grief over her pain they will weep rivers of blood, and in their joy in her lively response to love, they will converse with trees._ _HELPED are those whose every act is a prayer for harmony in the Universe, for they are the restorers of balance to our planet. To them will be given the insight that every good act done anywhere in the cosmos welcomes the life of an animal or a child._ _HELPED are those who risk themselves for others’ sakes; to them will be given increasing opportunities for ever greater risks. Theirs will be a vision of the word in which no one’s gift is despised orlost._
_HELPED are those who strive to give up their anger; their reward will be that in any confrontation their first thoughts will never be of violence or of war._ _HELPED are those whose every act is a prayer for peace; on them depends the future of the world._ _HELPED are those who forgive; their reward shall be forgiveness of every evil done to them. It will be in their power, therefore, to envision the new Earth._ _HELPED are those who are shown the existence of the Creator’s magic in the Universe; they shall experience delight and astonishmentwithout ceasing._
_HELPED are those who laugh with a pure heart; theirs will be the company of the jolly righteous._ _HELPED are those who love all the colors of all the human beings, as they love all the colors of the animals and plants; none of their children, nor any of their ancestors, nor any parts of themselves, shall be hidden from them._ _HELPED are those who love the lesbian, the gay, and the straight, as they love the sun, the moon, and the stars. None of their children, nor any of their ancestors, nor any parts of themselves, shall behidden from them._
_HELPED are those who love the broken and the whole; none of their children, nor any of their ancestors, nor any parts of themselves, shall be hidden from them._ _HELPED are those who do not join mobs; theirs shall be the understanding that to attack in anger is to murder in confusion._ _HELPED are those who find the courage to do at least one small thing each day to help the existence of another–plant, animal, river, or human being. They shall be joined by a multitude of the timid._ _HELPED are those who lose their fear of death; theirs is the power to envision the future in a blade of grass._ _HELPED are those who love and actively support the diversity of life; they shall be secure in their differences._ _HELPED are those who know.”_ FROM _THE TEMPLE OF MY FAMILIAR_ -1989###
_EL EVANGELIO SEGÚN SHUG_ _Bienaventurar es auxiliar_ _WAS THIS IT: AN AWAKE, UNCONTROLLABLE AND FIERCE CONSCIOUSNESS, WITH A PLANETARY AUDIENCE?_ What does it mean to love? I would rather be loved than perfect. Learning is slow. But we are doing it. Michael is helping us.Stand up.
~A.W.
_¿ACASO ERA ESTO: UNA DESPIERTA, INCONTROLABLE Y FEROZ CONCIENCIA, CON UN PÚBLICO PLANETARIO?_ Qué significa amar? Preferiría ser amada que ser perfecta. El aprendizaje es lento. Pero lo estamos logrando. Michael nos está ayudando.Levántense.
~A.W.
MARCH 2019
In the wake of the confusion and disappointment surrounding the initial summary of the Mueller Report, Michael Meade answers listeners’ questions about what story he would tell Congress and political leaders if asked. After pointing out that the facts can never tell the whole story, he turns to an ancient wisdom story in which telling the truth is the only way to stop the spread of life-threatening poison. As the tale illuminates, living under falsity can poison the core of a society as well as an individual. When the poison is already spreading, the only remedy is the medicineof truth.
QUOTE OF THE WEEK
Bernie Sanders
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_“Choosing to spend our tax money on building our nation instead of endless war is not magical thinking. Magical thinking is when you believe bombing strangers makes you safe.”_ CHILDREN OF THE WORLD, UNITE! Photo source: Nation of Change and Twitter #ClimateStrike _It is not too late to study for the present._ _Which is all there ever is, anyway_. – AW For instance, these children from different worlds. Who ate well?March 8, 2019
A Blessing for International Women’s Day by Alvaro Chavarin (See Other People’s Everything recent post)
New Greeting for Humanity (looks old!)A NEW GREETING
FOR HUMANITY
TO REPLACE HELLO
Copyright©2019 by Alice Walker A new greeting for humanity to replace hello: recognizing we have been tortured, for the most part, into our present state: _“I LOVE YOU FOREVER,_ and unconditionally.” The task: To work our waytoward it.
TO THE TEACHERS OF OAKLAND DEAR TEACHERS OF OAKLAND, I AM HONORED TO HAVE BEEN ASKED TO SPEAK TO YOU TODAY, OR, IN THE EVENT, TO SEND YOU A MESSAGE OF SOLIDARITY ANDSUPPORT.
AS MANY OF YOU KNOW, HAVING READ MY WORK OVER THE YEARS (HOPEFULLY!) TEACHERS ARE SOME OF MY FAVORITE PEOPLE. I HAVE A DEEP RESPECT FOR YOU. A DEEP CARING THAT YOU ARE TREATED FAIRLY. THAT YOU ARETREATED WELL.
FRANKLY, I WANT YOU TO BE PRAISED! (AS WELL AS PAID!) TO ME, TEACHERS ARE THE MOST IMPORTANT PEOPLE, NEXT TO PARENTS, ON EARTH. IT IS YOU WHO ARE GIVEN RESPONSIBILITY TO INSTRUCT OUR CHILDREN, WHICH MEANS, IN EFFECT, THAT IT IS YOU WHO ARE GIVEN THE RESPONSIBILITY TO SHAPE OUR SOCIETY, OUR COUNTRY, AND OUR WORLD. FOR THIS RESPONSIBILITY, SO UNIMAGINABLY HEAVY, YOU SHOULD BE GIVEN, REALLY, ANYTHING YOU ASK FOR. IT IS CRIMINAL THAT YOU ARE NOT. ESPECIALLY WHEN WE SEE IT IS THE WAR MACHINE, MORE OFTEN THAN NOT, THAT IS SUPPORTED LAVISHLY. A MACHINE THAT OFTEN CUTS SHORT THE VERY LIVES YOU HAVE LOVINGLY PREPARED TO LIVE WITH UNDERSTANDING AND INTELLIGENCE IN THIS WORLD. KNOW THAT YOU HAVE SISTERS AND BROTHERS WHO STAND WITH YOU, HEART TO HEART. WE MAY NOT BE BESIDE YOU PHYSICALLY, BUT WE ARE BESIDE YOU IN EVERY OTHER WAY. THOSE OF US WHO HAVE BENEFITTED FROM THE DEVOTION AND CARE OF GREAT TEACHERS WILL ALWAYS STAND WITH, AND BESIDE YOU.WHATEVER HAPPENS.
RAIN, OR NO RAIN.
AND WITH ALL MY LOVE,ALICE WALKER
_To be delivered by my friend and longtime comrade in struggle, Jack Heyman, of the Longshoreman’s Union. Thanks, Jack!_ _A LOS MAESTROS DE OAKLAND_FEBRUARY 9, 2019
GRACIAS A LA VIDA!
_Temple Jook House_
_PHOTO BY SHEHERAZADE TILLET 2018_ Maria Sabina was a curandera from the mountains above Oaxaca, Mexico. She was known for her healing prowess which had a foundation in the mushrooms that grow wild in that region. When she was a child, fatherless, she was often hungry. One day she was so hungry the mushrooms around their hovel seemed to be bread. She ate them and had amazing visions, and, in fact, was reunited with her father, who assured her of his love, and of his deep sorrow that he was absent. She grew up knowing of the other worlds that many people now learn about through another plant (actually two plants mixed together) known as ayahuasca. These plants have been demonized by some people because they let you see that ours is only one reality amonginfinities.
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María Sabina fue una curandera de las montañas que se elevan sobre Oaxaca, México, Era conocida por sus poderes curativos que se basaban en el empleo de hongos que crecen silvestres en la región. Cuando era niña, huérfana de padre, con frecuencia andaba hambrienta. Un día tenía tanta hambre que los hongos alrededor de su choza le parecieron pan. Los comió y tuvo increíbles visiones y, de hecho, se reunió con su padre, quien le aseguró su amor y su gran pesar por estar ausente. Creció con el conocimiento de otros mundos de los que mucha gente ahora conoce mediante el uso de otra planta (en realidad dos plantas mezcladas) conocida como ³ayahusasca². Estas plantas han sido demonizadas de cierto modo porque nos permiten ver que la nuestra es una realidad entre infinidad de otras realidades.JANUARY 2019
THICH NHAT HANH: BE BEAUTIFUL, BE YOURSELF SEE ANDREA MILLER’S INTERVIEW WITH THIS GREAT TEACHER IN LION’SROAR
_Breathing in_
_I thank Thich Nhat Hanh__Breathing out_
_I thank him _
_more._
From: TAKING THE ARROW OUT OF THE HEART by Alice Walker “There is no religion, no doctrine higher than brotherhood and sisterhood.” Thay (teacher) Nhat Hanh. HERMOSO, SÉ TÚ MISMO THE MAN WHO SAT ON THE GROUND IN HIS TIPI MEDITATING ON LIFE AND ITS MEANING, ACCEPTING THE KINSHIP OF ALL CREATURES AND ACKNOWLEDGING UNITY WITH THE UNIVERSE OF THINGS, WAS INFUSING INTO HIS BEING THE TRUE ESSENCE OF CIVILIZATION. -LUTHER STANDING BEAR, OGLALA SIOUX, 1868-1937 - IN SOLIDARITY WITH OMAHA ELDER NATHAN PHILLIPS 2019~~
El hombre que se sentaba sobre la tierra en su tipi meditando acerca de la vida y su sentido, aceptando el parentesco entre todas las criaturas y reconociendo la unidad con todas las cosas del universo, estaba irradiando en su ser la verdadera esencia de la civilización.Luther Oso Parado,
SIOUX OGLALA, 1868-1937 – EN SOLIDARIDAD CON EL QNCIANO NATHAN PHILLIPS, 2019=
_CROP CIRCLE: THANK YOU FOR TRYING TO TALK TO US. AW_ _Círculo en el pasto: Gracias por intentar hablarnos. A.W._#
DECEMBER 2018
Effort: Helping to Heal the World By Making It More Visible to EachOther:
A Letter From Nurit Peled- Elhanan, activist, educator, and friendfrom Israel
and a Poem
Dear Alice,
I read your poem and the criticism of it and I must react. The people who torture and kill Palestinians have never studied the Talmud. It is not studied in Israeli state schools. And no one can read it on their own. The ones who study it are the ultra-orthodox Jews such as the pro-Palestinian Neturei Karta in NY. The quotes (whether true or false) are surely partial and do not characterize this 12 volume work (thousand pages in every volume) whose writing ended thousands of years ago. The Talmud is not a prescriptive book. It is an endless interpretation of the Torah, always adapting the Torah to present times so that people can live by it. Ethiopian Jews never studied it and lived bythe Torah as is.
In these volumes you read discussion and polemics between different sages about every tiny aspect of human life. And the discussions are brought as they happened, more or less because it was all discussedorally.
But the main thing is that each such discussion ends with: “and so they disagreed” and people would choose the interpretation they wanted. Every argument that is brought is immediately countered by an opposite argument and the discussion that ensued. It is always openended.
In my time we learned a bit of it and I loved it, because it is Logic, like reading Plato. Today schools don’t teach it anymore. So in order to know what is in the Talmud – which none of the non-orthodox Israelis or Jews know – you have to read at least a whole chapter, pros and cons etc. One of the most discussed subjects in the Talmud as in the Torah is the treatment of foreigners, workers, slaves etc. Extremely human andenlightening.
I don’t want you to be trapped in superficial propaganda of ignorant people. And again: the reason for the ruthlessness and violence towards Palestinians is not to be found in ancient writings but in Modern ones. It is Modernity and European Enlightenment that brought slavery, colonialism, Fascism and Totalitarianism, national movements such as Zionism and the way to treat people as superfluous. Auschwitz was not prescribed in any ancient scripture, neither is Israelicolonialism.
Much love
Nurit
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Prof. Nurit Peled-Elhanan***
Dear Nurit,
Thank you, Sister Nurit, for not letting go of my hand, while informing me of your views, which I welcome and respect. Though we may have areas still to discuss, and perhaps always will, given the differences in our backgrounds and cultures, my own grip is asstrong.
Can you get my website: alicewalkersgarden.com where you are? If so, please read the entire poem. ”It Is Our (Frightful) Duty To Study The Talmud.” Also read a later poem, below, “Conscious Earthlings.” About the necessity of separating “Jews” from Zionist Nazis. I am including it here. Also, would you mind if I published your letter to help with the discussion, which seems to be, from what I hear, more about shouting. I am open to continuing our dialogue, if you are.Love,
Alice
Al post, _Un Esfuerzo: Ayudar a Curarse Al Mundo Haciéndolo Más Visible Unos a Otros_ CONSCIOUS EARTHLINGS 2018 by Alice Walker Jews have always been involvedIn my awakening.
Long before I knew
Or cared
What they were.
It is this I will remember Whatever worsening plans The Zionist Nazis make.To tell the truth
It has always calmed meTo have them near.
Carrying on, being smart-ass, Getting into everybody’s business Sitting up reading poetry Dissecting the Good BookWith me;
The only book allowedIn jail.
I will not lose this, Too much time has passed.I cannot be fooled.
Zionist Nazis are not the Jews I know; terrorists who wouldand do
Kill anyone and anything To get what they want: Control over everyone. I will never be divided from myfriends
No matter how bad Zionist Nazis are makingJews look.
I like especially to seeJews standing firm
With the same
Realization I also have: That the dream of one humanity, Of one race of humankind Is being born each dayIn every one of us
Who leave race and culture and religion Handed to us at birth behind And hold ourselves accountable todayThis minute
To the standard of eternalCaring
For the one United Tribe Of Conscious Earthlings.***
I believe it can only help us evolve, if we examine our basic religious programming, whatever it is. Though students may no longer read the ancient texts: the Koran, the Bible, the Torah or Talmud, the Buddhist texts carved in stone in what used to be Burma, these teachings continue to inform human activity. I have experienced some of their effects in my own life. Ancestors surely have: ”Slaves/servants obey your master,” etc. ”Women obey your husbands, etc.” In any case, as someone ignorant (yes, this is true) of what is in the ancient texts in their totality, I am, millions of us are, still wounded by the parts that have been inherited by word of mouth, over generations, and millennia, and are recognized as active in human behavior today. I don’t see how we will ever have peace without examining the deep past, and letting go of those parts that mean endless contention and war and suffering. For instance: here are places we have already, to some degree, brought negative Biblical teachings up to date: Blackness is not a curse but a blessing! Homosexuality is not an “abomination,” but a way love and attraction may be expressed! Woman must not keep silent in the churches, she must speak! I believe we are ready, and must accomplish our next step in spiritual evolution together. Perhaps being misunderstood, or risking harm to ourselves, as well as infuriating others as we go. This is a crucial part of women’s work for our own future as free beings, but also for a planet that is safe for children and other inhabitants; those helpless, for thousands of years, before the might of male menace, indoctrination, and domination. Because, as it was no doubt said to innumerable victims, often by enforcers who were themselves illiterate: we do whatever awful thing we’re doing to you because… it is written._ ***_
Today is the last day of 2018, a year the Japanese have designated, along with much of the world, “The Year of Disaster.” We have been hit, it seems, from every direction. I wish to affirm that I am not anti-anyone. Not even the “mad” and “crazy.” I have lived a long life in service to the Good of Life, which is perhaps what “God” in a religious sense, would mean to me. I am also free enough to realize that to attempt to damage such a life would not be helpful and would in fact be a backward move. There is far more important work to be done. MAY WE ALL ENTER THE NEW YEAR PEACEFULLY, AND IN PEACE CONTINUE OURJOURNEY. -AW
21ST DECEMBER
Happy Solstice!
The Light is Returning to a Darkened World. If there are indeed as many universes as there are grains of sand, let us resolve in the New Year to work on diminishing our narcissism and be content to realize it isn’t all about us.~A.W.
Feliz solsticio!
A LOS TAMBIÉN CURIOSOSTo the Also Curious
Copyright 2018
By Alice Walker
I was asked, in writing, by the NYTs BY THE BOOK “What is on your nightstand?” I replied with the titles of the pile of books that were currently on mine; all of them in some state of read, to read, or unread. David Icke’s book, And the Truth Shall Set You Free was among them. I find Icke’s work to be very important to humanity’s conversation, especially at this time. I do not believe he is anti-Semitic or anti-Jewish. I do believe he is brave enough to ask the questions others fear to ask, and to speak his own understanding of the truth wherever it might lead. Many attempts have been made to censor and silence him. As a woman, and a person of color, as a writer who has been criticized and banned myself, I support his right to share his own thoughts. It is too late in the day of our planet not to consider everyone’s opinion on where we’ve gone wrong, and how we might survive, if we are to survive, in the years ahead. It is a sad day for freedom of inquiry, thought, and speech, when an attempt is made to frighten people into lying about what is on their nightstand. This, of course, will be the effect of this misguided and cowardly backlash. I say cowardly because I believe the attempt to smear David Icke, and by association, me, is really an effort to dampen the effect of our speaking out in support of the people ofPalestine.
I don’t know about Icke, but I am also a supporter of BDS (Boycotts, Divestment, Sanctions, now heavily under attack) as a just and justified means of ending Israeli occupation of Palestine, and ending the slaughter of Palestinians, especially children, which Israeli soldiers do with alarming frequency. I also come from a tradition of struggle in the Apartheid American South that demands my stepping up to my responsibility to wage “war” without violence. Pacifists have no option, really, but to make our resistance felt through non-compliance with injustice and brutality. By not supporting a system that endorses the slaughter of children, or the destroying of families and homes. The razing of crops. The taking of land. The imprisonment of poets. Etc. I read everything. I even tried once to read Mein Kampf but found it too steeped in German history to make sense. It also seemed pedantic and boring. But after hearing so much about it, I wanted to know what it said for myself. I’ve also taken a crack at the Koran. I’m not equating these two, simply noting that many people encounter them both with dread. Suppose these books had been in the pile of books on my nightstand? Was I to be so fearful of what people thought that I would deny I was attempting to read them? The same is true of reading the Talmud, or the Bible, for that matter. Some parts of both are extremely problematic, and contain programming – about how to live, think, behave – that has caused us more grief than we, poor beaten down humans, for the most part, deserve. What do I believe might save us, as humans, yet? It may sound absurd. _Study_. The ignorance of many humans, especially in our country, is abysmal. As a writer, a teacher, a mother, a lover of humans and animals, and trees, it is distressing beyond words to see how incensed humans can become over a sound bite, headline, or snappy tweet, that they don’t, even vaguely, understand. Everything you see, read, or hear, has a backstory. A history. A reason. And Icke, among many others, digs around in the past to try to find out what it is. Awareness is key and we are lucky that there are people, intelligent ones, who care enough to raise it. I say read everybody, read everything! Being mocked, called ridiculous names, and disinvited from events by people whose backbones turn to jelly the moment they realize they might be criticized for having you appear, is a small price to pay for continuing in solidarity with Ancestors who would not have you be any other way. And with all my love,Alice Walker
_An Earlier Entry On My Blog: Alicewalkersgarden.com_ Recently I’ve taken a few knocks for my liking of David Icke. Well, I can’t help liking him, he’s got cojones for days. Seen many of those lately not backed up by missiles and tanks? Actually and happily, yes, as more silenced people speak and folks on their knees rise, but he’s still special. Anyway, last night it occurred to me what it is I like and I wanted to put it in one sentence: David Icke’s work is a feast for the imagination. That’s it. Take it or leave it, he is offering something extremely timely and useful. A completely new and different way to understand the world. And if you love mythology, as I do, you will have a fine time seeing how a new myth, with us in it (!) might be made. Though Icke isn’t talking about myth, but reality. Still, for some this will seem very far out, and way beyond the safety net of Joseph Campbell. Or even beyond the wild tales and fables of Greek and Hindu storytellers, my favoritesfor many years.
On the reptile issue, which seems to freak most people out, and while pondering the deep-rooted causes of the suffering of our people and our planet, I think: this paradise certainly didn’t get ruined by people who acted like the angels various religions have imposed on our thoughts: who else could those “angels” have been, but winged, highly technologically advanced, shape-shifting Reptilians from another galaxy! Ah, madness. Yes. Wonderful stuff. The only way we will change the outcome of our global predicament is to change our understanding of what we have considered “reality.” Change the tall tales of yesteryear that have always stymied and confused us. I am beyond weary, and most of the planet is, of the old explanations for our wretched plight as humans and the “wisdom” hidden in enforced doctrines that are supposed to “enlighten” us. You know: virgin births, life after death in the same body, the making of the planet and maybe the whole universe in a week by someone who looks surprisingly like the white man oppressing you, the blackness of humans being a curse, the required obedience of slaves to their masters, the making of woman out of a rib, the silence required of this same rib-fashioned woman in any gathering of the Holy (all male by definition) and so on. In the video below* I really like the attitude of the young interviewer (Luke Rudkowski of WEARECHANGE) with his cap turned backwards. That’s it. Keep an open mind. Change the habits, the hats, the mind-set, the conversation, by any means necessary. We now are being alerted, some of us, (more noticias from cojones- rich Edward Snowden) to the probability of solar flares on the sun sending us all up, fairly soon, in the prophesied “fire next time.” I don’t know about you, but I want to face this denouement, if it comes in my lifetime, having considered all the possibilities of how such a lovely (but apparently not unlimited) time on earth, as we have had (many of us, despite various deceptions, sufferings, and struggles) came to be. David Icke’s work can be very helpfulhere.
(Checking this out on YouTube in 2018 I find Snowden’s voice replaced by a “feminine” robot’s. And since five years have passed and the giant solar flare hasn’t carried us off, I can only say, as someone who loves studying the teacher as well as the teaching: it would be great to have some new classes by Snowden on what is currently happening to our beautiful, powerful, and graceful, Sun! The God/Goddess who, most of the time, loves us back.) _ __*To see the video I’m referring to go to my website. Select David Icke: The People’s Voice._ _And, especially for my global students who are wondering how my connection to the much maligned Brother Icke came to be: I deeply respect teachers. Whoever they are. The introduction to Credo Mutwa, an African shaman from South Africa, whose book Ndaaba My Children should be required reading, was my first, rather startling, gift from David Icke. There is or was, on YouTube, an incredible interview that Icke conducted with this very old man, who, if still alive, must be nearly a hundred, in which Mutwa introduces us to an ancient African historical narrative I had never heard. Whether one reads the narrative as history or myth I believe it is a part of human history that has been missing, to our detriment. Imagine the Greeks with none of their mythological history to succor, guide, and sometimes horrify them into consciousness._ _Here is a post from some years ago. __March 2, 2014_
_One of the most remarkable persons to have graced our planet is the South African Zulu Shaman Credo Mutwa. His teachings about so many things are immensely valuable. Indeed, I have been envisioning how an entire course of study might be constructed around his wisdom. I am perhaps not the person to attempt such a course, but it is obvious to me it would benefit the planet and human and animal kind if someone did. There is a world of information this great teacher and healer offers us: from the (perhaps) thousands of years Africans have interacted with Space beings to this revelatory look below at the African way with ancient and contemporary Crop Circles._ _A gardener, I loved crop circles from the moment I was shown pictures of them. I was also moved by the spirit of the beings who made them. To create so beautifully, so mysteriously, how cool they must be! I also resonate deeply with the traditional African sense of reciprocity and reverence with these unanticipated guests._ _Credo Mutwa is now 92 years old. He is in great pain, suffering from the knowledge that, as he says, his continent, Africa, is being murdered. What can we do to stop the depopulation of Africa, of Earth? Let us begin by knowing who we have been; what has already been taken from humanity. Let us honor and love ourselves, and each other, before we go._ See also: Crop Circles and The Music of Archie Roach: alicewalkersgarden.com.*****
The great historian Howard Zinn said that one thing we might do, when one of us is unjustly attacked, and we feel there is little we _can_ do, is to step up to defend or to join the person who is being abused. This behavior, he said, sometimes saves lives. When attackers see they must eliminate many instead of one, sometimes (not always unfortunately) they think twice. My own feeling is that when one is attacked what matters is that at least one other person will stand and say they see us as we see ourselves. We are affirmed in our humanity which is actually defined by the work we do, and have done, in the world. This is also the way we create and maintain a different world system, one in which each of us knows we will be seen and affirmed by others who have the courage and self-respect to do so. I have defended many great souls in my life, and hope to do so many times more before I leave this reality. I have not written before about Susan Abulhawa’s support of me in a recent attack charging me with anti-Semitism; it is a trying adventure to attempt to defend one’s self against a charge that seems, based on one’s life, friends, family and values to be absurd. But I have appreciated it very much, as I see such solidarity as being what the struggle for an improved humanity is about. To rise and speak the truth of not only our own lives, but what we have observed of the lives of sisters, brothers, and friends. Or even neighbors and parents. Here below is her piece, which appeared in AL JAZEERA some months ago. Once again, thank you Susan Albulhawa. I believe with all my heart that the better world of which we dream and for which we work so hard will be accomplished by each of us showing the courage to rise to a higher, more intense, and perhaps more dangerous level of solidarity than we had presumed the struggle required. As one of our great songs, sung by Ray Charles, proclaimed: _The world is in an uproar. The danger zone is everywhere._ And I would add, with gratitude: So are we.Albulhawa’s
https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/defence-alice-walker-190104043720518.html “We heal each other all the time, and don’t even realize that we’re doing it. Healing comes out of a very simple human relationship – knowing your life matters to another person, and connecting to something larger and unseen.” -Rachel Naomi Remen, M.D., author of _Kitchen Table Wisdom: StoriesThat Heal_
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BORN TO BE FREE. ALICE WALKER AND A NEW, JUST MET, FRIEND, RUDRA, FROM INDIA; ACTOR, MUSICIANAND HAT SALESMAN!
BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA 2018 Photo by Alice Walker and Laura Balandran “Writer Alice Walker has been thinking about how anger co-exists with peace. She spoke with Shannon Henry Kleiber about her new book of poems, “_Taking the Arrow Out of the Heart_,” and how she works on healing herself when she’s been hurt by others.” From: The Best of Our Knowledge Podcast Posted: December 1, 2018Audio Length: 14:10
_ WHAT TO DO WITH AN ARROW IN YOUR HEART_with Alice Walker
The episode, _What To Do With An Arrow In Your Heart,_ is a part of a larger podcast series entitled, “IS ANGER USEFUL?_“ _Listen to the full podcast series post, _IS ANGER USEFUL?_ Book Review New York Times entitled, ALICE WALKER: BY THE BOOK WHAT BOOKS ARE ON YOUR NIGHTSTAND?, WHO IS YOUR FAVORITE NOVELIST OF ALL TIME?, WHAT’S THE LAST GREAT BOOK YOU READ? and many morequestions answered!
Excerpt from NYT article: “The author, most recently, of the poetry collection “Taking the Arrow Out of the Heart” feels a duty to read about countries devastated by war: “The suffering, usually for the most vulnerable,never ends.”
WHAT BOOKS ARE ON YOUR NIGHTSTAND? “The Road of Lost Innocence,” by Somaly Mam, about child-selling, enslavement and sadistic “sex” trafficking in Cambodia. Bombed-out, psychologically traumatized Cambodia has become a place where even children are seen as commodities and treated worse than never terrorized or subjugated humans can imagine. Mam, a modern heroine who was once a captive herself, rises …” ARTICLE REPRINTED DECEMBER 15, 2018 , READ FULL ARTICLE, ALICE WALKER:BY THE BOOK
Haga clic para leer: ALICE WALKER: Junto Al Libro HER DAY: THE VIRGEN DE GUADALUPE Photo above by: Yolanda Padilla. Photo below by: Alice Walker A family in Zapata, Mexico, after Procession: Dec. 12, 2018 “The Feminine is not dead, nor is she sleeping…” A.W. OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 2018 Alice Walker and Desert Rose _TAKING THE ARROW OUT OF THE HEART_…. IN COMMUNITY. WORLD PEACE DAY, OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA 2018 Audio of Alice reading from _TAKING THE ARROW OUT OF THE HEART_ _THE MOTHER OF TREES_ AUDIO BOOK PURCHASE LINKS: AUDIBLE| GOOGLE PLAY
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SEPTEMBER 2018
RAISING A MEMORIAL TO THE CONFEDERATE SOLDIER WHO DID NOT WANT TO GOTO WAR
for Larry.
Copyright 2018 by Alice Walker I have been so impressed by the black women who are at the forefront of the effort to remove the statues of Confederate soldiers from public squares and college campuses that I could be hugging on them right this minute. Instead, while clearing my summer garden of autumn trash, and checking my late corn to see if it is ripe (yes, Southern black girl training: understanding that training comes before magic) Spirit gave me an idea that I think we Southern black women, together,might work on.
As we know from experience, it is imperative that we remain faithful to Soul, unless we want our music to be ruined forever. That’s us, yes, Keepers of the Music. In case you didn’t know. (Aretha, and so many others, thank you!) Anyway, as a Southern black woman (not, incidentally, a Southern “_black_” which destroys identity, using language as weapon) I think a solution to the Confederate statue/memorial issue might bethis:
We might raise our own memorial to the Confederate Soldier: _the Confederate soldier who did not want to go to war._ The one who was a young man, sometimes only a boy, happy on his farm and fishing in his creek, who had no idea really that war existed, or what it was. Of course nobody in the South (and the North as well) other than the men whose aggrandizement of property and power depends on wars, knew what war _really_ was. A big war, that would murder hundreds of thousands, and leave stacks of amputated arms and legs and other parts in heaps wherever it tarried. I was born in Middle Georgia. Our Confederate soldier has stood in the middle of town, facing North, for as long as I can remember. He always looked forsaken and lonely to me, and nobody, not even the ones who gloated over the fact that they had such a statue, ever, to my knowledge, gave him flowers. That told us a lot. Anyway, I have mostly avoided my town itself for a long time; going directly to visit family homestead, church, cemetery and first grade teacher’s slowly disintegrating house, and then leaving. Recently, a friend who lives there, mentioned in passing that our county refused, as long as it could, to join the Confederacy. Why? Because people were happy enough as they were and saw no point. A _refusenik _myself of anything illogical and boring, this made me incredibly proud. Though we’re talking about white people, who were still racists, and had been raised to be that way, even the best of them. Apparently very few folks in my town were interested in going off to fight for any reason. I passed by the Confederate soldier on my way to visit my parents’ and grandparents and great grandparents’ graves (which, I noted, chagrined, are badly in need of repair!). There he stood, basically ignored. Suppose he was one of those who had said –well, Southerners, possibly “rednecks” you know- “Screw war, I’m staying home with my family, my hounds, and my fishing.” But they came and got him anyway. Suppose he was thirteen? Sixteen, Seventeen? Suppose he had just fallen in love? Suppose he was really poor, as so many _poor_ white folks were. Suppose there was nobody to look after his family once he was gone. (It would probably have been some poor white and black folks, elders probably, who refused to let them starve, or have babies without company and assistance). It is time to take back our history. Those horrid monuments to slaughter of the innocents must be placed where everyone can really look at them. On a battlefield, is a great idea, as has been suggested. Black and white must write the truth, in stone, on the base of each one. There should be a nice, wide driveway right up to them. And the ones in Richmond, Virginia, for instance, so large they tower over everything, should be right in the center. Visitors should be invited to truly comprehend all the moving parts of a war that scarred the hearts of all our people, as deeply as it scarred the beautiful Southern countryside, and to shed their blind insistence on defending a history that did not exist.***
_As black women, we love ceremony and ritual , and do it well._ We might decide we don’t want to use these statues that are already made! That would be so like us. Contrary, you know. We might instead choose something modest, a beautiful stone, a large flat, or tall, rock from a river, perhaps, and inscribe it with whatever sentiment lies truly in our comprehension and in our hearts. Generally the space that slavery and segregation has left us in peace is our cemeteries. We might place our stone there. In its modesty – something we can afford, collectively, without a lot of stress – it can blend with the earth, which does not relish the destruction of war, either. _Here lies (or stands) a memorial, erected by members of the black __Community, especially its women, to the soldiers of the Confederate army who did not wish to fight in a war __they did not understand. Many years of happiness, whole lifetimes, were stolen from you; we know how this feels. May our descendants not waste their time and their lives on wars that are planned to enrich the coffers of strangers, but instead stand together against all wars and spend their time on this beautiful planet smiling, bowing to its beauty, anddancing._
Music: On entering sacred space I AM LIGHT by India Arie. Leaving sacred space, with joy, EN MANA KUOYO by Ayub Ogada. _I AM LIGHT INDIA ARIE_ _EN MANA KUOYO AYUB OGADA_ See DEMOCRACY NOW for black women’s involvement in this issue.POR FAVOR LEA
_Erigiendo Un Monumento Al Soldado Confederado Que No Quiso Ir A LaGuerra_
AUGUST 2018
SUPPORT: NATIONAL PRISON STRIKE AUGUST 21-SEPTEMBER 9TH, 2018! END SLAVERY IN AMERICA -AW _AYUDA: ¡HUELGA CARCELARIA NACIONAL EL 21 DE AGOSTO – EL 9 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 2018!_ _ESCLAVITUD DEL FINAL EN AMÉRICA – AW_> _HEAR_ OMAROSA.
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WHEN THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES CALLS A BLACK WOMAN A DOG Copyright 2018 by Alice Walker When the President of the United States Calls a black woman a dog We understand he lacks the courage To say what he means: bitch. But this is where we are As a nation of cowards, As we follow a person, Who, as Omarosa warns us, Is falling over a cliff; His thumb near a button That might annihilate us all. His anger certain to be taken out On the children and their parents, Grandparents, housing and food stores,In Korea and Iran.
Syria, and other places too. As well as on black people everywhere Whose feelings he consistently ignoresAnd hurts.
Lucky for dogs
They do not feel this pain. They go about their businessSame as always:
An eternity of kindness In their expressive eyes; Aeons of concern and helpfulness;Offerings of joy
In every Age.
Dogs are the winners hereOn Earth I think.
They know what is
Apparently impossible For many humans to learn:That there exists
A kind of free Goodness In the soul that gives upAll pretense
Of being more of or better than: A kind of free happinessIn being creatures
With nothing to hide. _Written in defense of dogs everywhere. And of women, everywhere._ See: UNHINGED: AN INSIDER’S ACCOUNT OF THE TRUMP WHITE HOUSE By Omarosa Manigault Newman > EN ESPAÑOL: _CUANDO EL PRESIDENTE DE LOS ESTADOS UNIDO LLAMA PERRA > A UNA MUJER NEGRA_>
OF COURSE HE SAID NIGGER Copyright 2018 by Alice Walker Of course he said nigger;You would too
If you hung out with the niggers He surrounds himself with When you’re not looking, In all their gold chainsWristwatches
And teeth. That’s howthey talk.
Grow up.
Stop talking
About “the N word” As if it is more importantThan the countries
He bombs
Or the children
He starves.
Nigger has a meaning You would have to liveLifetimes
To comprehend.
It would never submit To the phony “N word”; So current among those who Wish to “do the right thing” By covering up America: An effort that makes you Culpable and dishonest Every time you do it. We might as well call a Spade A Spade or should we say “the ‘S’ word”? Didn’t know about that one,Did you?
Niggers have at least one Honorable tradition,No matter how many
Gold nooses, chains, and shacklesThey wear.
They have never endangered a planet Or even destroyed part of one. Most still respect children. Why not simper as you say: “The N.N. (_Non Nigger_) word” And go off in _that_ fruitful direction Of who not to offend:Then we might all
Sleep better
At night.
_A poem in solidarity with Dareen Tatour, Poet in Palestine;_ _Prisoner in Israel. Our double-speak is as bad._ _SPELMAN COLLEGE STUDENTS STUDYING FOR CLASSES WHILE IN JAIL IN ATLANTA. EARLY SIXTIES. MARIAN WRIGHT (LATER EDELMAN), NOT READING, DISPLAYS THE LOOK AND POSTURE OF SO MANY YOUNG PROTESTERS OF THE TIME: THERE IS COURAGE, DETERMINATION, AND VULNERABILITY. BEAUTIFUL. -AW_ _FOREWORD BY ALICE WALKER WHAT NURTURED MY OUTRAGE, REALLY?(DOWNLOAD
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_ESTUDIANTES DE LA FACULTAD SPELLMAN ESTUDIANDO PARA SUS CLASES MIENTRAS PERMANECEN EN LA CÁRCEL EN ATLANTA. PRINCIPIOS DE LOS 60. MARIAN WRIGHT (LUEGO EDELMAN), SIN LEER, MUESTRA LA MIRADA Y POSTURA DE TANTOS JÓVENES PROTESTANTES DE ESOS TIEMPOS: HAY VALOR, DETERMINACIÓN Y VULNERABILIDAD. HERMOSO. -A.W._ PRÓLOGO POR ALICE WALKER _¿QUÉ ALIMENTÓ MI IRA REALMENTE?_
(_DESCARGAR PDF _ 273KB) _Alice Walker and Howard Zinn_January 26, 1991
Photo credit: by Jean WeisingerJULY 2018
_One thing you can count on:_ _Wonders Never Ceasing__._Queen Sugar
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The Star of the Sea. Copyright©2018 by Alice Walker QUEEN SUGAR which my friends and I watch with gratitude and joy, stirs those latent places, almost asleep or drifting, of memory, of community, of tribe, that have felt almost forgotten in what the Brahma Kumaris term our present era, The Age of Sorrow, The Age of Iron. Ah, we say to each other: there is that wisdom, that tenderness, that togetherness, that love, that kept us going for so long. This is what it can look like today, and is, today, apparently, for some people; though infrequently exhibited on television, where a gun or a car is so often exploding. If only my parents could have watched QUEEN SUGAR. Farmers, they would at last have seen something they and their grandparents, and their parents and grandparents before them, would have understood. Love of Earth, love of the land, along with the understanding that humans who inhabit it are responsible for its care. And that The Land has character, as people do, and must be encountered with the proper respect; though, because it is willful, as humans are, and free, as humans feel we must be, it may decide to invite hurricane or pestilence, to destroy one’s crops. It would definitely resent being referred to as “brown money” as one black latter day carpet bagger type opines. Almost all our ancestors who were lovers of Nature would have enjoyed Queen Sugar, and all of the show’s “spin-offs” in the form of human affairs of the heart that have their rootedness in the great romance with the land. They would have seen themselves, vividly depicted, in their daily, monthly, yearly, dramas. Passionate and principled people – once some of them outgrew despair and gave up drinking – they would have relished seeing themselves as whole and capable, standing together as one stalk, though spread into infinity –and with so much variety! – across the Earth-field. It is a powerful gift, QUEEN SUGAR. A wonder. And proves again that where the heart and brain are united in offering the very best that can be conceived, there too an art that encourages the people, and loves us into healthful growth, will be born. _WHAT HISTORY CAN BE FOR: KNOWING WHEN SOMETHING NOW HAPPENING TO OTHERS HAS ALSO HAPPENED TO YOU. -AW_ _THE STAR OF THE SEA, __by Joseph O’Connor._ A friend, in passing, mentioned he was reading this book. He was struck by the similarity of the suffering of poor people all over the world. I had not heard of it, but when he said it made him better understand the Irish Potato Famine of the 1840s I realized I had wanted to understand this period better since the time, in college probably, I first learned of it. What exactly happened? And how did this catastrophe, in which over a million poor farmers starved to death, and, while in the process of starving, were evicted from their land and homes, connect with the hundreds of thousands of Irish people who immigrated to the United States? How did their passage differ from that of other white emigrants? And how did they deal with the fact that while they were starving and dying and forced to leave Ireland because their potatoes -the primary diet -were diseased and inedible, the landowners whose potatoes were unaffected by the blight, shipped them abroad for a profit. What did they learn from their physical, psychic, and emotional journey? Had it profoundly changed them? What was my neighbor (as a child in Georgia) Flannery O’Connor’s connection to Irish emigration? Was the way she wrote –brilliantly “crazy” in a different way than other Southern white writers – part of her Irishness? And what of the Irish O’Haras of GONE WITH THE WIND, and the sociopath and racist Scarlet O’Hara, who in a book read around the world and that clocks in at over a thousand pages has not one positive word to say about a black person; though most of the black people she knows have taken care of her since birth; and have served her family for generations. What was Margaret Mitchell really showing us in this saga set in the deep South during the American Civil War, a mere twenty years after the Irish Potato famine. What about Robert Kennedy who learned by being shown, in the 1960s, that black children were starving in Mississippi, in America? And wept. Why was he able to feel what Scarlet O’Hara could not?And so on….
THE STAR OF THE SEA is the name of the ship on which the emigrants sailed. It (as book) contains some of the most beautiful, intricate, deep, funny and sorrowful writing I have ever read. One photograph of the author shows someone otherworldly, as if this book (though he has written many others) was his assignment on being sent here. It is one of those connective books we need so desperately, now that we know we’ve never been told anything official that was true: a book that helps the reader make sense of history in a way that matters. I learned more about the history of England and Ireland –and the cruelty and greed of both their upper classes -from reading this book (truly amazing on Audio) than I had despaired of ever knowing. I won’t attempt to describe the plot. You might choose to think of the story as a meditation on the lack of nobility inherent in being hungry, humiliated, and desperately poor; the possibility that one’s being may become consumed to the point of destruction with thoughts of revenge, self-loathing, and hatred. Or as a teaching on the concealed miseries of the Upper Classes who get all the toys and little of the soul. It is quite true, one realizes anew, reading this book, that the world is not divided into countries as much as into classes. A lot of energy goes into keeping this fact concealed. There are workers, in vast numbers, all over the earth, and there is the One Percent; who all seem to know each other. Didn’t someone say _Arise!_ I listened to it twice, for the pleasure of the writing, and grasped most threads, I hope. _Good luck._ _Be forewarned: The reader, Peter Marinker, is excellent. His voice is perfect for the story. Also for napping. This too seemed perfect. After all, we can only bear learning so much of the struggle and suffering of our planetary kin, before we are protected by our inner sentinel who says “enough for now, sweet curious one who wants to know so much, rest.”_ I RECENTLY RAN ACROSS AN EARLIER REVIEW I WROTE OF ANOTHER BOOK FROM IRELAND THAT MOVED ME DEEPLY. READ TOGETHER SOME QUESTIONS FROM STAR OF THE SEA ARE ANSWERED. Ma, He Sold Me For a Few Cigarettes,by Margaret Long, is without question the most harrowing tale I have ever read. Even Charles Dickens, whom we appreciate for being the voice of so many abused children, is left in the dust. Why? Because Dickens was writing about abused children, while Margaret Long was herself abused, horribly, unbelievably, by her mother’s “man” and by her own mother. Managing to stay alive, only just, by her own wits, in a world determined to erase her life and to make her believe, in her very soul, that she is nothing. It is a hair-raising read. That it is a best seller in Ireland and England gives me hope. Margaret Long is not being abandoned again. Still, it is so difficult a read one might ask: Why should we bother? We must bother because it begins to show us the deeper, perhaps most elemental source of our world’s despair: the chronic, horrific, sustained, abuse of children. Especially those children who, unwittingly, inherit the brutalities of colonialism, whether in Ireland, where this story is set, or the rest of the globe. I was amazed to feel some of the English, Irish, Scottish ancestors of both enslaved Africans and indentured Europeans (in the Americas) showing up in the characters of the Dubliners Margaret Long depicts. There they are, in a Dublin slum in the 1950s, yes, (Margaret Long’s childhood city), but recognizable as the same twisted beings who made life hell on earth for millions of people over the course of numerous centuries. And who, some of them, unfortunately, still walk among us. As I read this book I thought: This is exactly why they’ve kept women ignorant for so long; why they haven’t wanted us to learn to read and write. “They” (you can fill this in) knew we would tell our stories from our point of view and that all the terrible things done to us against our will would be exposed, and that we would free ourselves from controlling pretensions, half-truths, and lies. The destruction of our common humanity through the manipulation of imposed poverty, misogyny, alcoholism and drug abuse, is a major source of our misery, world-wide; and has been for a long time. Reading this startling testament to one child’s valiant attempts to live until the age of sixteen (four years to go!) is a worthy reminder that we can do better as adults if we turn to embrace the children who are suffering, anywhere on earth, who are coming toward us, their numbers increasing daily, for help. _Algo de lo que puedes estar seguro: Las Maravillas_ No Cesan enespañol
JUNE 2018
YOU ASK ME WHERE CAN WE GO 2018 by Alice Walker You ask me where can we go And I can say only one placeWith certainty:
We can go into our love. Into our love for ourselves And for our brown and black sons Who are so under attack. They are killing themselves And let us not forget That from Palestine to Los Angeles They are being killed By other youth and grownups, Who are themselves, in essence,Already murdered.
Instantly also the white sonsOf my white friends
Come to mind: also hangingThemselves
And burning their own houses (in the “better neighborhoods”) Down upon their heads. Only love will save us. But we are distracted. Where did we put it,This love?
_We ask in our daze_ Of being so connected To everything in the Universe Except the murdered,The suicides;
How long has it been gone?_###_
MAY 2018
PALESTINIANS ARE US; TO UNDERSTAND THIS IS TO GRASP THE SITUATION’S URGENCY TO YOU. - _AW_ SUPPORT AVAAZ ON THIS ISSUE! FROM: ”Ricken Patel – Avaaz”SIGN NOW
Dear Avaaz,
The stinking hypocrisy knows no bounds, and no shame.Israeli troops MASSACRED 59 UNARMED PROTESTERS YESTERDAY, AND SHOT 1300 MORE. 1300. They do it *gleefully* — you can watch videos hereand here
. Yet Israeli spokesmen and their US allies constantly play the victim of “dangerous Palestinians”. CNN reports “deaths in clashes”. What clashes?? It was a massacre!! IT IS A MASSACRE. It’s going on today. Another installment of 40 years of Israeli racist brutality and military repression. Avaaz battles racism everywhere. WE’VE FOUGHT ARAB DICTATORSHIPS FOR YEARS AND IT’S TIME TO FIGHT THE ISRAELI ONE. Israel today is an ethnic dictatorship — one of the most brutally racist regimes on the planet. It has become unhinged, and it deserves to be a pariah state. Other states have faced sanctions for far less. SANCTIONS ON SOUTH AFRICA HELPED FREE ITS BLACK PEOPLE, IT’S TIME FOR SANCTIONS ON ISRAEL TO FREE THE PALESTINIANS. It’s time for the world to rally behind sanctions on Israel. TAKE ACTION TO HELP SAVE PALESTINIAN LIVES! Israel has marched steadily away from reason and peace and towards the far right. Members of Parliament called for the beating of Ahed Tamimi, the young Palestinian girl who slapped a soldier after her young cousin was shot in the face — and the Defence Minister himself ordered to punish her entire family. Israel’s many enablers will knee-jerk accuse Avaaz and our many Jewish staff and leadership of hating Jews. But we love Jews, as we love all people. The holocaust was real, Jews were brutally oppressed and still face anti semitism worldwide. Many of those who founded Israel wanted it to BE A BEACON OF A BETTER WAY. BUT THEIR VISION HAS BEEN BETRAYED, and Israel has become a brutally racist and repressive regime — it deserves the world’s condemnation. Not just in words, but action. TAKE ACTION TO HELP SAVE PALESTINIAN LIVES! Two of the most dishonest and dangerous leaders in the world today are Donald Trump and Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu. Like extremists everywhere, they dream of a world where sensible people lose their judgment and are pulled into two warring camps, one of which is led by them. Let’s show them it won’t work — that ordinary people won’t be sucked into their hate and propaganda, and that we can still see racism and brutality for what it is, and respond. That they can’t take our humanity from us, and we won’t let them succeed in taking freedom and dignity from the Palestinian people.With hope and determination, Ricken, Christoph, Alice, Pascal, Antonia, Fatima, Martyna and the entire Avaaz team. __________________________________________________________ The Guardian view on Gaza shootings: stop killing unarmed civilians(The Guardian)
- https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/may/14/the-guardian-view-on-gaza-shootings-stop-killing-unarmed-civilians South Africa recalls envoy to Israel over ‘violent aggression’ on Gaza border (Times of Israel) - https://www.timesofisrael.com/south-africa-recalls-envoy-to-israel-over-violent-aggression-on-gaza-border/ Source: Avaaz Email Campaign>
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> Jews have always been involved>
> In my awakening. > Long before I knew> Or cared
> What they were. > It is this I will remember > Whatever worsening plans > The Zionist Nazis make.>
> To tell the truth>
> It has always calmed me > To have them near. > Carrying on, being smart-ass, > Getting into everybody’s business > Sitting up reading poetry > Dissecting the Good Book> With me;
> The only book allowed> In jail.
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> Too much time has passed. > I cannot be fooled. > Zionist Nazis are not the Jews > I know; terrorists who would> and do
> Kill anyone and anything > To get what they want: > Control over everyone.>
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> I will never be divided from my friends>
> No matter how bad Zionist Nazis are making> Jews look.
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> Realization I also have: > That the dream of one humanity, > Of one race of humankind > Is being born each day > In every one of us > Who leave race and culture and religion > Handed to us at birth behind>
> And hold ourselves accountable today>
> This minute
> To the standard of eternal> Caring
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HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY Alice Walker and Rebecca WalkerMexico City, 2018
Happy Mother’s Day Mother and Grandmother, and Father and Grandfather! Minnie Tallulah Grant Walkerand
Willie Lee Walker
Georgia, the Thirties (Same cheekbones and attitude!) JULIE OTSUKA’S NOVELS 2018 by Alice Walker Julie Otsuka’s novels _THE BUDDHA IN THE ATTIC _and _WHEN THE EMPEROR WAS DIVINE _were given to me by a Japanese-American friend who knew of my interest in Japanese history and culture. I had been intrigued years earlier by her account of her family’s forced “internment” in an American concentration camp, during World WarII.
What happened to Japanese -Americans during that war, uprooted and forced to relocate in barren deserts, and other such desolate places, is an unknown among most Americans. Partly this is because the Japanese- Americans, ashamed to have been treated so badly by white, European- Americans, rarely, if ever, wanted members of their communities to talk about it. But also, there was, there must have been, the belief that the suffering and humiliation they endured would eventually be forgotten. There is a suffering – especially when coupled with humiliation – that goes so deeply into the soul that it can never be forgotten. It must be faced. And, a place must be found for it. That is what Julie Otsuka does in these two extraordinary books. She shows us what happened, the horrible treatment of the Japanese -American cooks and nannies and houseboys and gardeners, as well as the teachers, doctors, lawyers, and mothers and fathers and girls and boys, when the United States government decided that all yellow people were spies for the emperor of Japan. These overnight “enemy aliens” were perceived to represent a danger to their new country, and were deprived of goods and livelihoods and shipped off to parts of the country most of them had never known or even imagined. For years. In their slender elegance – matched by a restrained, if tough and invincible pride of heritage -– these books represent a literary monument to all who were abused, all who suffered physical and spiritual wounds, all who managed to rise again, and all who fell. Every word, chosen by Otsuka as carefully as if it were a flower, is laid on an altar of literary beauty, so that those who endured and those who could not, might know, if only through their descendants, that they have been remembered in just the right way, and may rest. There are times one feels so grateful to be part of one’s profession; in this case, that of writer; that this world, for all its heartache, seems the right place to cast one’s lot.###
Ley, _Las novelas de Julie Otsuka_APRIL 2018
May God Bless the People of Gaza , April9, 2018
AN OPEN LETTER TO THE CHILDREN OF GAZA: FROM ALICE WALKER photo source: video May God Bless the People of Gaza En español, Queridos Niños de GazaApril 10th, 2018
_Dear Children of Gaza,_ _My letter of support for your march will reach you too late to support your brave efforts of April 9th, to confront and somehow humanize your oppressors, the women and men, many of whom are only a few years older than you, of the Israeli military. I am deeply sorry for this because I think you are amazing human beings who demonstrate as much courage and resilience as any children the world has ever seen. You have of course paid dearly for this and no words that I or anyone else can say will take away the pain that lies leaden in yourhearts._
_You were commemorating, yesterday, someone that I loved very much when I was young: Martin Luther king. I met him briefly while I was a student; a blessing I hold dearer the older I get. He sacrificed so much for the people of America, my country; people whose beautiful humanity was often lost to them because they were led by vicious, greedy people who used race – the color of a person’s skin – to separate and stunt us. Even as a child I saw this was as idiotic as separating people by the color of their hair. We were all, in my country, made smaller and meaner by an arbitrary system of separation that has led today to a country where no one trusts “leadership” and no one feels safe._ _What the world will eventually understand, and by then it will be too late, is: As Gaza goes, so goes the world. All human activity teaches something to the human race. What is happening in Gaza, and has been happening in Gaza, the brutality of the theft of the lives and livelihoods of a people, will be seared so deeply into common consciousness across the globe that it will become acceptable, even in areas where people assume they are safe._ _It is as if humans all have separate heads, but only one brain. In fact, I have written a poem about that. But never mind!_ _I send you my love, my caring, my understanding of as much of your culture and history as I have been able to absorb. I have considered this the duty of a conscious adult whose taxes are used, against my will, to finance much of the disaster befalling you._ _All adults owe you the respect of making the attempt to understand what you are up against; what you have been up against for decades. The world will continue to suffer from its neglect of you. And what oppresses you today may well become what oppresses everyone in the notso distant future._
_As we pray for you, young ones, so dedicated to learning and growth, pray also for us. You have probably heard how the violence that you have faced for generations, as children and as adults, has now lodged in our own cities and schools in America. It is the same violence; it’s only commitment is to itself and to its own unending growth. In its aftermath the “victors” suck up the oil and dig out the precious minerals, metals, and stones. In the case of Palestine, they demolish your homes and even drain away your drinking water. They think they will be happy, these “winners,” as rich conquerors dancing on your graves. But true happiness comes from doing what is right, a rightness based on inner peace. It is this that both you, and Martin Luther King, demonstrate to the world. It is an offering that has cost you more suffering than most humans can even bear to learn about. It is nonetheless, because humans can be beautiful, and earth is in essence a paradise that we must protect, the only work at this moment that truly matters._ _In solidarity and caring,__ Alice Walker_
En español, Queridos Niños de Gaza AS LONG AS THERE ARE CHILDREN (GROWNUPS MUST BEHAVE!)NO! to War March
Oakland, California
APRIL 15, 2018
_EN ESPAÑOL, MIENTRAS HAYA NIÑOS LOS ADULTOS DEBEN COMPORTARSE_ AS LONG AS THERE ARE CHILDREN (GROWNUPS MUST BEHAVE!)NO! to War March
Oakland, California
APRIL 15, 2018
2018 Alice Walker
As long as there are children Grownups must behave And stop acting like They are the only onesAround the place.
This place is earth
And it is overwhelmingly Peopled by children –Those who are born
And those still to come Though potentially present already In their mothers’ eggs. As long as there are children Children must realize They are a global tribe:They must let no
So called grownup
Tell them they have nothing in common With their tribal kin In Gaza, Somalia, Syria, Vietnam, China, Russia,Iran,
Or Ethiopia.
_As long as there are children_ _Grownups must behave!_ As long as there are childrenThey must study
With suspicion
Every word grownups say.Those same grownups
Who are responsible
For the combustible predicament We are in all over the Earth. Those same grownups who pretend they know The secrets of the Universe Yet don’t even know one thingAbout Facebook.
That they know much of anythingIs a fiction.
For what, on the evidence,Do they know?
How to put the livesOf children
-Who belong to everyone-In gravest danger!
How to maim and killChildren at will
In every war
Whether soft or hard; Whether with bulletsOr vaccines
Or the withholding
Of bread.
_As long as there are children;_ _Grownups must behave!_ As long as there are children They must be protectedFrom their devices.
The micro-wave radiation in them is increasing And the brains of the youngAre still forming.
In our daughters’ bodies, The eggs of our future Ancestors and DescendantsAre being fried.
As long as there are children Remember the child in you.Protect her.
Protect him.
Protect them.
Protect all the babiesOf planet earth:
Whether the fox
Chased and torn apart by mad men (and women) Or the rhino shot and killed By mad men (and women) Or the elephant shot and killed By mad men (and women).Protect the child
Mighty Mother Earth HerselfHas become
In the hands of creatures Who never learned respect; And whose feelings of compassion were deleted, Assuming they ever existed, A very long time ago. _As long as there are children,_ _Grownups must behave!_ War attacks all air, all forests, all animals, All water, all humans. As long as there are young ones Of any kind: Whether baboon, human, or bluejay:Say no to war.
How do grownups
Truly say No
To War?
BY NOT PAYING FOR IT. Some so-called grownups will harass you when You attempt to do this: _Not Pay For War_. But do not bediscouraged.
As your elder, it is my job to help you think Your way around this obstacle of taxes That have the blood of the children Of the world on them. It is fairly simple, though discipline rarely is: Knowing they will find a way to penalize us for boycottingThe IRS
As a form of protest I propose a simpler form of direct action: The #I DON’T NEED IT movement. What does this mean? _You may well ask._ It means that because money is all these so-called Grownups Appear to understand That we stop buying whatever new gadgetThey are selling.
We can withdraw the energy of our dollars Without saying a word. _Or by saying or thinking or believing, _ _With only our soul as witness:_I DON’T NEED IT.
I don’t need the endless distraction Of having to buy every bauble dangledBefore my eyes
As thousands of children and their parents Are traumatized and killed. I don’t need the river of junk I am required to buy to make me Forget I’ve been forced to be An accomplice in mass slaughter. I will wear my old coat, my old shoes,Drive my old car,
Thank you very much. Whatever you’re selling me to make me forget:I DON’T NEED IT.
We can begin to stop War By withdrawing financial Energy from anythingThat depresses us
And sends us searchingFor painkillers
Including
Sex,
Crack, alcohol, and opioids. We can begin to stop war By practicing non-compliance With whatever in the society Supports it. Especially an economy That endorses and promotes other criminal offenses, like privateprisons
For its mostly poor
And of color populations. _We can become Grownups who know how to behave,__ Ourselves!_
By studying the connection between Our mindless shopping behavior And the deaths of childrenJust like our own.
We can stop war
By not shopping our way through the bad news of it; As it creeps ever closer to our door.WE CAN STOP WAR
BY NOT FUNDING IT.
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_WINNIE MANDELA WE LOVE YOU_ WINNIE MANDELA TE AMAMOS _See Search for poem_
THOSE WHO LOVE US
NEVER LEAVE US ALONE WITH OUR GRIEF: READING BARRACOON: THE STORY OF THE LAST “BLACKCARGO”
2018 by Alice Walker Those who love us never leave us alone with our grief. At the moment they show us our wound, they reveal they have the medicine. Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo” is a perfectexample of this.
I’m not sure there was ever a harder read than this, for those of us duty bound to carry the ancestors, to work for them, as we engage in daily life in different parts of the world where they were brought in chains. And where they, as slaves to cruel, or curious, or indifferent white persons (with few exceptions) existed in precarious suspension, disconnected from their real life, and where we also have had to struggle to protect our humanity, to experience joy of life, in spite of everything evil we have witnessed or to which we have beensubjected.
Reading Barracoon one understands immediately the problem many black people, years ago, especially black intellectuals and political leaders, had with it. It resolutely records the atrocities African peoples inflicted on each other, long before shackled Africans, traumatized, ill, disoriented, starved, arrived on ships as “black cargo” in the hellish West. Who could face this vision of the violently cruel behavior of the “brethren” and the “sistren” who first captured our ancestors? Who would want to know, via a blow by blow account, how African chiefs deliberately set out to capture Africans from neighboring tribes, to provoke wars of conquest in order to capture for the slave trade, people – men, women, children – who belonged to Africa? And to do this in so hideous a fashion that reading about it two hundred years later brings waves of horror and distress. This is, make no mistake, a harrowing read. _We are being shown the wound._ However, Zora Neale Hurston’s genius has once again produced a Maestrapiece. What is a Maestrapiece? It is the feminine perspective or part of the structure, whether in stone or fancy, without which the entire edifice is a lie. And we have suffered so much from this one: that Africans were only victims of the slave trade, not participants. Poor Zora. An anthropologist, no less! A daughter of Eatonville, Florida where truth, what was real, what actually happened to somebody, mattered. And so, she sits with Cudjo Lewis. She shares peaches and watermelon. ( Imagine how many generations of black people would never admit to eating watermelon!)* She gets the grisly story from one of the last people able to tell it. How black people came to America, how we were treated by black and white. How black Americans, enslaved themselves, ridiculed the Africans; making their lives so much harder. How the whites simply treated their “slaves” like pieces of machinery. But machinery that could be whipped if it didn’t produce enough. Fast enough. Machinery that could be mutilated, raped, killed, if the desire arose. Machinery that could be cheated, cheerfully, without a traceof guilt.
And then, the story of Cudjo Lewis’s life after Emancipation. His happiness with “freedom,” helping to create a community, a church, building his own house. His tender love for his wife, Seely, and their children. The horrible deaths that follow. We see a man so lonely for Africa, so lonely for his family, we are struck with the realization that he is naming something we ourselves work hard to avoid: how lonely we are too in this still foreign land: lonely for our true culture, our people, our singular connection to a specific understanding of the Universe. And that what we long for, as in Cudjo Lewis’ case, is gone forever. But we see something else: the nobility of a soul that has suffered to the point almost of erasure, and still it struggles to be whole, present, giving. Growing in love, deepening in understanding. Cudjo’s wisdom becomes so apparent, toward the end of his life, that neighbors ask him to speak to them in parables. Which he does. Offering peace. _Here is the medicine:_ That though the heart is breaking, happiness can exist in a moment, also. And because the moment in which we live is all the time there really is, we can keep going. It may be true, and often is, that every person we hold dear is taken from us._ Still._ From moment to moment, we watch our beans and our watermelons grow. We plant. We hoe. We harvest. We share with neighbors. If a young anthropologist appears with two hams and gives us one, we look forwardto enjoying it.
Life, inexhaustible, goes on. And we do too. Carrying our wounds and our medicines as we go. Ours is an amazing, a spectacular, journey in the Americas. It is so remarkable one can only be thankful for it, bizarre as that may sound. Perhaps our planet is for learning to appreciate the extraordinary wonder of life that surrounds even our suffering, and to say _Yes_, if through the thickest of tears. *_A popular caricature of African Americans for centuries portrayed them mindlessly eating watermelon. This so damaged the psyche of many black children that they grew up actually hating the fruit or, if they ate it, as adults, and liked it, this fact was hidden. I think the tender fragility of souls under extreme racist stress played a part in the denial of the African participation in the slave trade._ Leer en español, _Los Que Nos Aman Nunca Nos Dejan Solos Con Nuestro Dolor: Leyendo BARRACOON: La Historia Del Último Cargamento DeNegros_
MARCH 2018
I was delighted to meet and listen to Deepak Chopra at the Liberatum gathering in Mexico City this week. His wisdom, and self-confidence in sharing it, is wonderful, as was his teaching from his new book THE HEALING SELF. I like this photo for many reasons but a primary one is: it’s good for a society to see its elders at work. Rudolph E. Tanzi, Ph.D. is co-editor of this very caring, comprehensive, and spiritually thoughtful book, that appears to consider all known aspects of the healing process. Toward the end there is a useful and somewhat reassuring chapter on Alzheimer’s, something apparently many people, starting as early as their forties(!) begin to worry about. Oops, time to learn thatGerman and Swahili!
_ __ _M A R C H 21ST _Dear Hermana, I just want to congratulate you on the World´s Poetry Day. Poetry, as Marti said, is more necessary to people than any other thing since it gives them the strength and the desire to live.This afternoon we´ll have a special reading and a toast. Much love from,Manuel_
M A R C H 2018
PRESS STATEMENT
ISRAEL’S CHIEF RABBI CALLS BLACK PEOPLE ‘MONKEYS’ *22 MARCH 2018 | https://goo.gl/CRDgid _UN DICHO SABIO DE LOS ANTEPASADOS_One Wise Saying
Of the Ancestors
Is Worth More Than a ThousandToxic
Ideologies
2018 by Alice WalkerFor instance:
_“I’ve been called__everything_
_but a child_
_of God.”_
Well, there you standMud splattered
Unable
Because of intriguesAnd laws
To defend yourself
Against
Their attacks.
Hundreds of years
Of this.
And so,
You concede
The obvious:
Their lineage of oppressionIs equal
To your centuries
Of enduring
Their abuse.
What are they declaring now? That you are a monkey?A donkey?
A chimp?
A baboon?
A communist,
A conspiracy theorist,An anti-Semite?
A know nothing,
A moron,
A disgrace,
A shrew?
It is all so seen before:But the Ancestors,
Denied the right to protest,On pain of lynching
And/or beheading,
Threw out one true lineThat can be stated-
In any circumstance
Of character assassination-By all the rest
Of us. Standing
As we do
And as they did too
Usually defenseless
Before the arrogant
And morally
Infinitesimal.
“I’ve been ‘buked And I’ve been scorned, I’ve been talked about Sure as you’re born”Is also
A solace:
Who can deny the supportOf those words
As sung by the choral angels Of Morehouse, Howard,Spelman,
And Tuskegee?
But the line: “I’ve been calledEverything
But a child
Of God”
So simple and direct We still see the faces And feel the quiet eyes of the many thousandsGone,
Covers most slander.~~~
_UN DICHO SABIO DE LOS ANTEPASADOS_~~~
F E B R U A R Y 2018MADAME PRESIDENT
THE EXTRAORDINARY JOURNEY OF ELLEN JOHNSON SIRLEAFBy Helene Cooper
2018 by Alice Walker There are some books we wish didn’t have to be written. I felt this many times while reading MADAME PRESIDENT, the extraordinary story of the life of Liberia’s and Africa’s first democratically elected female president, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, by Helene Cooper. At almost every page I found myself plotting how I might help get this book into the hands of every literate African and African-American on the planet, because I knew it would startle, shock and amaze them. It would scare them into many kinds of soul searching; it would cure them of platitudes about Africa that have so stunted much discourse about the continent. It would require a determined mind and strong stomach to confront the brutal misogyny that has been faced seemingly forever by African women, and it would necessitate a real evaluation instead of a fanciful one of male selfishness and sense of lordship that has meant, literally, the rape, selling out, and impoverishment of a continent that has since time immemorial been understood by natives and imperialists alike to be phenomenally wealthy. Helene Cooper’s is the perfect voice to tell this tale; she is wry, she is smart, she comprehends what is happening in and to her native country as only a loving but clear-eyed daughter can. While Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is the body and soul of the woman who has walked in all the lanes of the crooked road and is canny enough to get her people around the next bend. An understatement, of course, because, actually, Sirleaf is simply astonishing, as the woman who holds together a country not only in tatters from layers of bad government and rampant and hideous wars, but also a country stricken horribly by an Ebola epidemic just as it begins to stand up again, having been virtually slain by decades of unbelievably brutal male dictatorship. Do we trust some of the saviors who come to help? Of course not. But that is not the point. I am thankful they appeared, though some of them undoubtedly caused part of the disaster. What matters is: The Women of Liberia Stood Up. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Stood Up. The writer, Helene Cooper, is standing up. I believe with all my heart that this book can be a major force in correcting our misperceptions about a land most African Americans relate to more as myth than as reality, and can lead us all, African Americans, Americans, and indigenous Africans alike, to our true, as opposed to our mythical, home. The work to be done is immense. Simply attempting to understand the politics involved in keeping poor countries enslaved by debt is mind boggling. Even so, let us be encouraged by the women of Liberia who, finally, had had enough. Women who chose one of their own to lead the way out of wars in which children were drugged, terrorized, and forced to rape and kill family members, and to chant, of “Pappy,” the warlord who clearly tortured them into insanity, as he campaigned for the presidency of the country, “He killed my mother; he killed my father, I will vote for him!” This is a book to help us grow our universal heart. A heart anchored in respect for the human mother and the human child; a book that calls on each of us to protect the sacred inviolability of the human mind, spirit, body and soul. It is simply a great book, filled as such books often are, with insights into the unimaginably bitter residue of lives distorted by historical misadventures, and external, as well as internal, demonic forces. _LA SEÑORA PRESIDENTEen
español_
Photo by Alice WalkerSpring Poem
Copyright 2018 by Alice Walker _For daisy, zinnia, petunia, jasmine, rose, tenzin, rebecca, rachel_ The seed from last year’s gardenHas been scattered
By the wind.
When I return in SpringTiny green faces
Are everywhere.
Some have landed
As we might too
In dry
& rocky
Ground.
But mother has returnedAnd she
Is the gardener;
She notices.
The stunted plants
Trying their best
Still are stuck
In rocky soil.
Or maybe more discouraging From a young plant’sPoint of view
In treacherous sand.Sand looks so solid
But is not
& winter packs it hardLike earth
& it is earth
But a very fickle kind.It slips
It slides
Water drains
Right through it.
But the gardener
Who knows
The mother to the plantsHas come home.
She sees.
With her old and dullish trowel She sets about her work. For days she has carefullyNoted
All the uncomfortables.Now she moves.
The stunted zinnias
She can almost hear
Gasping for breath
She moves into big pots No matter that legend Is: they dislike being moved.The impatiens
Fainting in the heatShe transplants
To dappled shade.
The huge jasmine
That never blooms
She leaves alone
Except to shower it
With a hose
& Tell it that
Though perhaps it has forgotShe has not
Its function is to create Heavenly scented flowers That look like stars. No more letting seeds struggleWhere they fall
As if there is
Justice
In neglect.
This is an Old
Or New Testament
Teaching
We might decline.
Placing our belief
In the gardener
The mother of the plantsWho always returns
After the winter thaw:Sees the condition
Of each one of her green childrenAnd acts
To bring nurturance,Happiness
And radiance
To them all.
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_Leer Poema De Primavera_
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J A N U A R Y 2018~~~
_ALICE WALKER KEYNOTE SPEECH — EARTH AT RISK CONFERENCE_~~~
Somebody Died for Us:_Remembering _
_Martin Luther King, Jr._ _WE ARE THE ONES WE HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR_ Alice Walker speaking about Martin Luther King, Jr (start time 9:37 to39:25 end time)
Atlanta, Georgia
LESSON: NEVER WANDER INTO THE MARKETPLACE AFTER A SILENT RETREAT. OR DURING. WHICH IS WHAT I JUST DID. Copyright©2018 by Alice Walker Perplexed by signs for “bookstore” and finding none, I wandered once again down the path beside the new community building. I saw folks going in. I had wondered about the lineup of small Buddhas outside the building. Of course! The bookstore and market! In I went. Not thinking this was not wise to do on day five of a weeklongsilent retreat.
I found so many lovely things inside! Spring’s book! Larry’s book! Prayer flags! So many lovely things – and of course Ichose many!
But _then_ I looked in vain for a salesperson. None appeared! I wenthere and there!
Finally I realized there was – this being the up to date commercial age- _no_ sales person! I saw the instructions for how to pay for my purchases by myself. I found them extremely complicated. My spaciness? Yes, but also, my kind of mind. Not good with gadgets and especially intimidated by financial questions and the tapping of machines to “wake them up” at nine o’clock in the morning! _Oh, I tried! _And I am glad I made the effort. At least I was not defeated without some attempt to comprehend the machine. To its credit (no pun) it’s written message said plainly: “I prefer cash and checks.” Forgetting I had cash, though no checks, I endeavored the plastic route. No dice. I was royally frustrated within minutes! I decided to save myself complete meltdown and wrote a note (hopefully) to management: “This is too complicated by far. Where is the humanity in this? (Envisioning marketplaces in other parts of the world with kids and their grandparents and maybe even a goat or two around.) Or the sales, for that matter?” – I signed, and left all my lovely, would -be purchases on the counter. Came up the hill to meditation in something of a huff. Went straight to the FORGIVENESS dharma talk by Larry Yang in which he seemed to have watched the entire situation in the bookstore. Especially my somewhat sour (I bet!) glance at the smiling woman at the entrance of the building. Poor thing! What clue could she have had? Anyway, a teaching about exchanging self for other. In other words, lighten up, not tighten up! And don’t go shopping in the middle of asilent retreat!
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This was all settled beautifully of course. As I was leaving the retreat with a friend she suggested we go inside the bookstore and re-select my would-be purchases. She was handy handling machines, she said. Her interaction with post- modernity up to date! In fact, they were all still on the counter, just where I left them! I bought two copies of Spring Washam’s amazing book, A FIERCE HEART: FINDING STRENGTH, COURAGE, AND WISDOM IN ANY MOMENT, and two of Larry Yang’s bedrock of a Buddhist book for communities of color: AWAKENING TOGETHER: THE SPIRITUAL PRACTICE OF INCLUSIVITY AND COMMUNITY. I got my Tibetan prayer flags, because by now all my old flags are gray and torn, literally shredded by the wind. The book I hadn’t expected to carry me off, that I bought mainly because I love Taoist poetry, is beside me now as I type: THE ACTIVIST’S TAO TE CHING: ANCIENT ADVICE FOR A MODERN REVOLUTION by William Martin. Rarely has a book touched so directly the places this revolutionary and poet needed, these days, to be touched.Listen to this:
_Silence _
_Noise confounds our leaders._ _ They don’t know what to do._ _ Scurrying this way, then that,_ _ they never find the silent Tao__ within._
_ If they could find that silence,_ _ the country would transform itself._ _ Simplicity and freedom from desire_ _ would become the natural way,_ _ and destructive habits would fall away,_ _ replaced by patient compassion for all life._ _Leaders will never find that silence while serving the current system. Since dollars have become speech, the noise has overwhelmed all possibility of silence. No one in leadership has ears to hear the quiet among the cacophony of special interests. New systems must be founded on a stillness, a serenity where decisions can be considered from a place of wisdom, not from urgency or expediency. Of course, we can’t form such systems until we find a silent place withinourselves._
-William Martin
_Shopping while pursuing peace definitely interferes with finding thissilent place. -AW_
Meanwhile: I just finished FIRE AND FURY, INSIDE THE TRUMP WHITE HOUSE, by Michael Wolff. It is deeply troubling and positively deeply important. We might not survive this debacle, but I cheer the writer’s craft, and courage, and willingness to alert humanity. LEER ESTO, UNA LECCION: NUNCA VAYAS POR EL MERCADO, EN ESPAÑOL###
ENCOURAGED BY THE MIRACLES OF LIFE 2018 by Alice Walker _for Rebecca, Tenzin and Rachel__December 6, 2018_
For instance:
The wisdom of the mango tree.Two years ago
A hurricane
Named Patricia
-The worst storm
ever to hit Earth
according to those keeping record of relatively recent times- Destroyed two mango trees I planted thirty yearsAgo.
With sorrow, we pulled up one stumpBut while preparing
To pull up stump #2
We noticed at the very topOf it
Clinging for dear life, A tiny twig of a branch had startedTo grow.
It’s solitary tenacityMoved me.
I grieved the huge tree The Mango used to be With luscious mangoesHanging down
And hanging as well
A bright green swing I had placed on a stout branchFor my grandchild.
Last year I noticed the tiny branch Left out of pity on the otherwiseDead seeming stump
Had begun to grow.
This year I see it has grownIncredibly
And has shaped itselfInto a tree.
From a distance you cannot even tell This “tree” is growingOut of a stump!
Here is the miracle –How did it know
To do this?
That though only a sprig of a branchAnd a spindly one
At that
How did it know
It was supposed to beA tree!
Next year it may wellProduce mangoes!
From this experienceMy faith in us
Returns.
In just this way
The way of the tiny mango twig That knew it was supposedTo be a tree
We will also know
-however betrayed, broken, deformed or distorted we may become, whole parts of us sheared off in a multitudeof human storms –
That we are meant to be Upstanding, fully rounded,Goodness producing
Human beings.
We will grow ourselves back To our original form If even one leaf is left to us; And we will drop our fruit To nourish the world.~#~
El Poema, ALENTADA POR LOS MILAGROS DE LA VIDA, en
Español
D E C E M B E R 2017 _A GOOD PRAYER FOR STARTING ONE’S DAY IN THESE TIMES …_ _HUMANS ARE AMAZING. THANK YOU__FOR MAKING US! _
_WHOEVER OR WHATEVER YOU ARE,_ _OF WHATEVER DIMENSION OR FREQUENCY!_ _THANK YOU FOR GIVING US OURSELVES TO ENJOY!_ For instance, I went last night to my local movie palace in Oaklandia (as Frida Kahlo would call it) and saw the Pixar movie COCO, which revolves around the Mexican custom of celebrating the Day of the Dead. As usual I knew almost nothing about it beforehand. Someone I admire said she’d heard it was great. Well, “great.” You know. But even so. She is great and I went from there. It is a marvel! Which I won’t give away except to say it warmed my heart once again to see that artists of all kinds are stepping up to their global duty to bring dignity and clarity and compassion and understanding back into the world. As someone who has loved Mexico from long before I fled Mississippi to be temporarily restored by the soulfulness of Oaxaca almost half a century ago, it has been torture to hear the rude, ignorant things said about Mexico and Mexicans by someone temporarily in office as US president. He clearly understands nothing of the depth and greatness of the Mexican soul. Watching COCO (how it was even made is a mystery!) I was reminded of my own first encounter with Day of the Dead ceremonies in a huge cemetery many miles from the city of Oaxaca. First of all, I was taken there by a gay Mexican man who explained to me that in his culture (Indigenous rather than Conquistador) there has always been a traditional role for gay men: one of which is to take care of the family altar. Another is to make sure that marigold petals (plentiful and bright orange) reach thickly from doorway to street so the souls returning to check out the altar can find their way home. Another is to accompany their sisters in society so that no one dares be uncivil to them. Also, a duty to introduce strangers, beautifully, to a ritual unknown to them: the celebration of the Mexican family’s connection to its dead. I think I’ve written about this in my journals, coming soon as GATHERING BLOSSOMS UNDER FIRE, but essentially what happened is I was simply astonished at this humongous celebration of the rich dance between life and death being played out in the middle of the night, in the middle of nowhere, in the middle of a cemetery that seemed as large as a small city. People eating and drinking, playing every instrument imaginable, playing cards… in fact, partying around their family’s tombstones and tombs. I was enchanted. A state I love! But then, just as I was swooning over all this, I heard the most beautiful singing I’ve heard in my life, and I am from Georgia, where folks have been known to carry a tune! What is that? I wanted to know. And our guide courteously led us through all the lights and revelry to the very back of the cemetery where there stood the ruins of a church, inside of which dozens of people were singing. Well, yes, I started to weep. But not as much as when I asked: Who are they and why are they singing these mournful and soul stirring songs, and my friend said: They are singing for those to whom no one comes to visit. What can one say? There are people in this world who know what Soul is. The movie COCO shares with us some of this. Soul. In Southern black culture, for centuries, this word had huge significance; today a somewhat related meaning would be empathy. Which we quickly noted our enslavers lacked. UNA BUENA ORACIÓN PARA EMPEZAR NUESTRO DÍA EN ESTOS TIEMPOS_###_
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I LIVE NOW AS IF I WILL NEVER SEE YOU AGAIN Copyright 2017 by Alice WalkerI live now
As if I will never see youAgain;
I should have been livingThis way all along.
Here is a cure for every kindOf impatience
& Irritation;
Every anticipation
Of regret.
I love you as I love the fieldsThat I see
From my window,
Like them
Your colors are changing;Some are fading.
They are still, these fields But only from a distance; Up close even the beesAre dancing.
Everything moves.
One day the slowly
Growing trees
Will
Rob us of the view.
Therefore:
Cultivate a sense
Of having been born
For this time.
The best “marriage”You can make now
Is between you
And society.
_For my dancing friends at Stanford University. _ _Leer AHORA VIVO COMO SI NO FUERA A VERTE NUNCA OTRA VEZ en español_ N O V E M B E R 2017PRESS ALERT
MANDELA ON HISTORIC TRIP TO PALESTINE THIS WEEK (26 TO 29 NOVEMBER 2017) PRESS ALERT – Mandela on historic trip to Palestine this week (26 to29 November 2017)
26 November 2017
Nelson Mandela’s grandson, Chief Mandla Mandela MP, is on a historic visit to Palestine. Mandela, who arrived in Palestine this morning (Sunday 26 November), will hold several meetings with Palestinian leaders including President Mahmoud Abbas. Chief Mandela will also visit the Holy Towns of Bethlehem and Jerusalem, both located in the occupied Palestinian West Bank, as well as the mausoleum of Yasser Arafat in Ramallah. Mandela’s grandfather, Nelson Mandela, was a close friend of Arafat having explained in his famous Ted Koppel interview that: “_Our stand is that Arafat is a comrade in arms and we treat him as such_” (video source: https://youtu.be/i5TiUhhm7cQ): Chief Mandela, who is a senior Member of the South African Parliament, is a close ally of the BDS movement and Palestinian struggle against Israeli Apartheid. On Thursday evening in Amman (Jordan), prior to his entry to Palestine, Chief Mandela had a meeting and received a briefing from Palestinian leader, Omar Barghouti, of the Palestinian BDS National Committee. Following his meeting with Mandela, Barghouti commented that: “Chief Mandla Mandela is exceptionally inspiring, not only for carrying forward Madiba’s legacy of justice and internationalism, but also for seeing solidarity with the struggle for Palestinian liberation as a South African ethical obligation. Palestinians are proud of and deeply grateful for this solidarity from Madiba, Chief Mandla Mandela and from the great people of South Africa.” During his meeting Barghouti reiterated Palestinian support for the shut down of the SA Embassy in Tel Aviv. To arrange an interview with Chef Mandla Mandela while in Palestine or for further information on his itinerary contact: +27 (0) 74 054 3826 Source: Issued by Kwara Kekana on behalf of BDS South Africa Comunicado de prensa traducido al español IT IS OUR (FRIGHTFUL ) DUTYTO STUDY THE TALMUD
2017 by Alice Walker The first time I was accused Of appearing to be anti-Semitic The shock did not wear offFor days.
The man who charged meWas a friend.
A Jewish Soul
Who I thought understood Or could learn to understandAlmost anything.
He could not understandHowever
Why I thought Israel should give backThe land it took
From a poorly defended People in a war that lastedSix days. I cringed
About our small house In Mississippi (where black people Often assumed he was a racist) Deeply offended by his attempt To insult my characterAnd spoke to him
Earnestly of “dignity” “justice” “honor” and “peace.” Sometimes, later in life, You do laugh at yourself. You understand, finally, That you’ve understood Nothing. Nothing at all. That in this case, for instance, That of the famed Six Day War,It was all a show,
A true “Theatre” war; The battlefield a stage, Though bombs and bullets were real. Only the people who lost the battleGot a close-up
Of the set.
And the set-up.
Later I would march
Or be arrested
Protesting this war and that And marvel how it never mattered. On days we marched in our tens of thousands The people we hoped to influence Were taking a holiday. Bush was good at this. He let the media Spread the word he was chillin’ on his 12,000 or is it 20,000Acre ranch.
Bill and Barack made themselvesScarce.
When I was in PalestineAs an elder
Doing my job
Of keeping tabs
On Earth’s children I remembered my concernAnd how my friend
Had brushed it off.
“Israel needs that land to protect itself.” He said. As though this should be Self- evident. It wasn’t then;It isn’t now.
The land taken
Has never been returned. In fact, more stolen land Has followed the first assaultsAnd thefts.
Palestinian children, after yearsOf throwing stones
At grown up assassins In helmets and armored tanks Are killing themselvesThese days
To save their murderersThe trouble.
Unlike most Americans I have witnessed Palestine Under Israeli rule. It is demonic To the core. But where to lookFor the inspiration
For so much evil? Where To find the teachings that influence And sanction such limitless cruel behavior? Where to find that part Of the puzzle that is missing? We’ve intuited there must be one.And we were right.
*
We must go back
As grown ups, now,
Not as the gullible children we once were, And study our programming,From the beginning.
All of it: The Christian, the Jewish, The Muslim; even the Buddhist. All of it, without exception,At the root.
For the study of Israel, of Gaza, of Palestine, Of the bombed out cities of the Middle East, Of the creeping Palestination Of our police, streets, and prisonsIn America,
Of war in general,
It is our duty, I believe, to study The Talmud. It is within this book that, I believe, we will find answers To some of the questions That most perplex us.Where to start?
You will find some information, Slanted, unfortunately, By Googling. For a more in depth study I recommend starting with YouTube. Simply follow the trail of “The Talmud” as its poison belatedly winds its way Into our collective consciousness. Some of what you find will sound Too crazy to be true. Unfortunately those bits are likely To be true. Some of the more evasive studies Will exhibit unbelievable attempts At sugar coating extremely disagreeable pills. But hang in there, checking And double checking, listening to everybody, Even the teachers with the twisted pasts That scare you the most, And the taped rants of outraged citizens that sound Like madcap characters on Car Talk Except they are not laughing But are righteously outraged. Study hard, with an open If deeply offended mind, Until you can sift the falseFrom the true.
Is Jesus boiling eternally in hot excrement, For his “crime” of throwing the bankers Out of the Temple? For loving, standing with,And defending
The poor? Was his mother, Mary,A whore?
Are Goyim (us) meant to be slaves of Jews, and not only That, but to enjoy it? Are three year old (and a day) girls eligible for marriage andintercourse?
Are young boys fair game for rape? Must even the best of the Goyim (us, again) be killed? Pause a moment and think what this could mean Or already has meant In our own lifetime. You may find that as the cattle We have begun to feel we are We have an ancient history of oppression Of which most of us have not been even vaguely Aware. You will find that we, Goyim, sub-humans, animals -The Palestinians of Gaza The most obvious representatives of us At the present time – are a cruel example of what may be done With impunity, and without conscience,By a Chosen people,
To the vast majority of the peopleOn the planet
Who were not Chosen. Not chosen to receive the same dubious“Blessing” of
Supremacy over the Earth, Humans, and Beasts of this realm. As is Stated plainly in the first chapter Of the Bible we all read. The Unchosen who, until now, Were too scared of beingCalled names
To demand to know why. It is a “Blessing” Jesus did not want. One that, risking crucifixion, he refused. One reason he is loved By those who recognize a good And righteous person When they encounter one. Seen in this light he wasn’t even A spiritual progressive, but a committed Revolutionary: a Che Guevara Of the ancient past. A past as scary, if not scarier, than Our own time: A past that, Unfortunately, is not even past (quotingFaulkner).
We discover this
To our enlightened griefAs we study
The Talmud,
Our own ignorance,
And the devastating impact of both On our abandoned world.###
See: THE GENERAL’S SON: JOURNEY OF AN ISRAELI IN PALESTINE, by Miko Peled, introduction by Alice Walker Also interview with Miko Peled below. Your browser does not support native audio, but you can download thisMP3
to listen on your device. Source: posted on July 2, 2013, Interview on BFM radio during myvisit to Malaysia
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