Continue Reading Black Friday Do we really need more stuff? Instead of shopping today I am linking to two long articles that made me think hard…
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Continue Reading Artists’ Reactions After Pandora's Box opened Progressive artists make statements via their art, often in ways that are stunningly creative; sometimes they are complicated enough that they need serious…
Continue Reading The Power of One We need any reminder we can get that individual action can make a difference. Some reminders come in form of memorials or…
Continue Reading Old town Rebus On my walk the city started to whisper to me: They want to go back to and are willing to play to do it. you need…
Continue Reading Antidote Why would I possibly think about poison? Could it be those poisonous voices spewing their brew of racism, anti-semitism, sexism and bigotry? Why…
Continue Reading Utopia We started the week with a poem and we’ll end it with one by the same author. I read this one as…
Continue Reading Images without Words If Mendelsohn could have Lieder ohne Worte, I can have Bilder ohne Worte. How they relate to this week’s topic of “bright spots” is…
Continue Reading Lessons from Austria Tablet is a daily online magazine of Jewish news, ideas, and culture. It is not even 10 years old but has grown…
Continue Reading Free Speech, my Hat Do you know that feeling when so may things simultaneously vie for attention in your brain that you can’t formulate a single,…
