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Muriel and I Had A Terrible Fight But Love Remained

Muriel Rukeyser and I had a terrible, painful parting of the ways, so many years ago now that it seems impossible to imagine that we did. But speaking of her recently for her 100th birth year celebration, I found nothing in my heart but gratitude for her kindness, for her efforts to befriend a younger more »

Things We Can Do For Each Other: Honoring the Hopi by Protecting What They Believe

Things We Can Do For Each Other: Honoring the Hopi by Protecting What They Believe. AWSecret Bids Guide Hopi Indians’ Spirits HomeJoel Saget/Agence France-Presse — Getty ImagesAlain Leroy, owner of an auction company in Paris, surrounded by sacred Hopi spirit masks.ByTOM MASHBERGPublished: December 16, 2013291 CommentsThe auction in Paris was set to move briskly, more »

You Grew More Beautiful Still… Waving Goodbye to Nelson Mandela, in Sacred Flight

I am so happy that Nelson Mandela is at last truly free. I will wave to him as he transforms into Everything around me and on into the Cosmos.What a race to run, Life gave him. That he made it in such beauty tells us who we are, and who we can become.AW“I was called more »

Sweet People Are Everywhere

Sweet People Are Everywhere©2013 by Alice WalkerFor Young Brian Who Is Getting a PassportSome of the people in Turkeyare very sweet.Some of those in Afghanistanare very sweet.Some of the people in the Americasare very sweet.In Canada toosome of the peopleare sweet.In Mexicoyou will definitely findsweet people.Likewisein the Sudan.There are sweet peopleamong the Zuluin South Africaand more »

History as Friend: Engaging OBLIVION: The David Icke Epic

My love of story, my enthralled absorption in the study of History, as soon as I realized it existed, my delight in fresh ways of looking at everything, leads me to much of the new information that is becoming available in these amazing times. This rather short (for him) teaching by David Icke is one more »

Our grandmothers are blameless and moreover they are sisters

Malala and Nabila: worlds apartUnlike Malala Yousafzai, Nabila Rehman did not receive a welcoming greeting in Washington DC.Last Modified:01 Nov 2013 09:57“Nabila, a slight girl of nine with striking hazel eyes, asked a simple question in her testimony: ‘What did my grandmother do wrong?’” writes Murtaza Hussain [Reuters]It is almost unbearable to think of this more »

Filling Our Hearts With Beauty: The Legacy of Those Who Believed

Today I am in Atlanta visiting one of my oldest friends, Dr. Beverly Guy-Sheftall, who directs Spelman College’s vibrant and creative Women’s Center. We have known each other since our college days at Spelman when the movement to desegregate the city of Atlanta was in full flower. It has been an amazing half century. From more »

Change Overthrow to Outgrow & I’m With Him: Russell Brand ( new to me until this moment) making sense

See Video below. Published: Friday 1 November 2013“When I was asked to edit an issue of the New Statesman I said yes because it was a beautiful woman asking me. I chose the subject of revolution because the New Statesman is a political magazine and imagining the overthrow of the current political system is the more »

I’m With Him: Russell Brand ( new to me until this moment) making sense

See Video below. Maybe skip directly.Published: Friday 1 November 2013“When I was asked to edit an issue of the New Statesman I said yes because it was a beautiful woman asking me. I chose the subject of revolution because the New Statesman is a political magazine and imagining the overthrow of the current political system more »

Gathering Blossoms Under Fire: The Journals of Alice Walker

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEContact:Paul OlsewskiVP, Publicity Director212-698-7089paul.olsewski@simonandschuster.com For rights Information:Lisa Keim212-698- 7397Lisa.keim@simonandschuster.com 37 INK TO PUBLISH ALICE WALKER’SJOURNALS (NEW YORK) – October 7, 2013. Dawn Davis, Publisher and Vice President of 37 INK/ Atria Publishing Group, has acquired the journals of prize winning author, poet and activist Alice Walker. Gathering Blossoms Under Fire: The Journals of more »