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Inner Landscape

Inner Landscape©2013 by Alice WalkerFor S and CWe have not seen each otherin over a decade;your son is very tall, you say,your daughter, learningto ride horses.Later, savoring our chance meetingin the local ice cream storeI look about my landand see evidence of your helpfulnesseverywhere:the big sisterSycamore treethe one that remains of three saplingsyou brought to more »

The Magic of Women

Dear Sisters at the University of Michigan, I accept your invitation to visit with you in the coming year: I believe we have all learned something from our efforts to reach out to one another, and I believe also that – if solar flares or deeply unintelligent wars haven’t carried us off – it will more »

The Butler Did It

The Butler Did It©2013 by Alice walkerLee Daniels’ The Butler was received in my neighborhood by a packed house, all colors and kinds, almost all of them, at different points, talking back at the screen in some fashion. At the end, there was a rousing, heartfelt offering of applause. The enthusiasm is well deserved because more »

Later We Would Miss You So Much: Remembering August 28, 1963

LATER WE WOULD MISS YOU SO MUCH© 2013 by Alice WalkerFor Chelsea ManningLater we would miss youso much.But on that daywe had you with us& we were sowith you.Your happiness,of a manknowing he wason his wayto gloryto being shot down;a man beamingwith triumphto see usthe advancing crowds,caused us to cheer inwardlyin response to everyword.Later we more »

Taking Care of the Truth: #3: The Amazing Speed of Spin

An Israeli Peace Activist carrying a sign with an israeli and a Palestinian Flag©2013 by Alice WalkerIn times of war, Truth, it is said, is the first casualty. But that won’t remain a truism if we sincerely seek to know what the truth of a situation actually is. It has been interesting to more »

The Mud of Being

Alice carrying a sculpture of pregnant African women in a circle, dancing.Necks of Clay©2013 by Alice WalkerSomeone said to me:Oh, stop that! He has feetof clay.This person’s claywent to the neck.Can we listen to imperfecthumans?I’ve always preferred themmyself.Does this make us mad?Can we hear our ownsmall voicesmuffled bythe mudof being:pleadingfor release?

Necks of Clay

Alice carrying a sculpture of pregnant African women in a circle, dancing.Necks of Clay©2013 by Alice WalkerSomeone said to me:Oh, stop that! He has feetof clay.This person’s claywent to the neck.Can we listen to imperfecthumans?I’ve always preferred themmyself.Does this make us mad?Can we hear our ownsmall voicesmuffled bythe mudof being:pleadingfor release?

The American Holocaust (one of two**) Revisited: Sharing Strong medicine and Good news by Deni Leonard

OP-EDPublished: Monday 12 August 2013We are all connected and have only one home: Mother Earth.By Deni Leonard in NATION OF CHANGEThe Anglo-European arrived on Indigenous tribal lands as an illegal immigrant illegally occupying the new lands. They eventually swindled the Indigenous tribal people out of the island land now known as Manhattan and which is more »

The American Holocaust (one of two) Revisited: Sharing Strong medicine and Good news by Deni Leonard

OP-EDPublished: Monday 12 August 2013We are all connected and have only one home: Mother Earth.By Deni Leonard in NATION OF CHANGEThe Anglo-European arrived on Indigenous tribal lands as an illegal immigrant illegally occupying the new lands. They eventually swindled the Indigenous tribal people out of the island land now known as Manhattan and which is more »

Why Women Need Their Own Money

In Case You’ve Ever Wondered How It Is Done: Censorship by Purse StringAn Invitation to speakat the 50th Anniversary for the Center for Education of Women at the University of Michigan has been withdrawn I’m saddened to write this because I’m a proponent of free speech and have been brought up to allow everyone to more »