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Published March 9, 2022 by Nan MykelExactly! Am re-blogging.
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Published March 9, 2022 by Nan MykelLegislation to defund gender and women’s studies at the University of Wyoming has stoked faculty fears about how far lawmakers will go to stop public colleges from teaching courses they don’t like. See Diane Ravitch’s blog for more. [Barf, excuse me.] Shame shame shame.
1982 Poem
Published March 9, 2022 by Nan MykelON WRITING POETRY
Embracing chunks of life,
trying to convey the experience
in thin black words
on a cold white page,
failing
because
words can’t breathe,
won’t bleed
don’t whimper
in the dark.
They just lay there,
impotent fosils,
barren husks,
dropped spoor,
not the real thing at all,
not the rustle in the weeds
nor the shrill screech
of the wild boar.
Veterans Going to Ukraine?
Published March 8, 2022 by Nan Mykel“Sanctions can help, but sanctions can’t help right now, and people need help right now,” said a former U.S. Marine, one of a surge of American veterans who say they are now preparing to join the fight in Ukraine, emboldened by the invitation of the country’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, who earlier this week announced he was creating an “international legion” and asked volunteers from around the world to help defend his nation against Russia.
As Dave Philipps reported in the March 5 nytimes, the risk of unintended escalation has led the U.S. federal government to try to keep citizens from becoming freelance fighters, not just in this conflict, but for centuries…
NO COMMENT….
Published March 8, 2022 by Nan MykelAll
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Who Is Zelensky?
Published March 6, 2022 by Nan Mykel
Gabby Says…
Published March 6, 2022 by Nan MykelA PLACE FOR POLITICS
politics – in a civilized society
“When peace like a river attendeth my way; when sorrows like sea billows roll….”
A young friend and his wife stopped by to help Jim with a plumbing problem– the wife and I sat to talk for a while. They have two children, 7 and 8, in school. We were able to agree that all this hullabaloo over covid-19 has become by far too politicized. She doesn’t want their kids to grow up ‘scared of the world’ nor unable to socialize normally. I understand her point and agree. If only she and I could be examples of what our political process needs to be – a give and take kitchen table chat…no name-calling, no diminishing of the other to make a point.
“…….whatever my lot, Thou has taught me to say, “It is well, it is well with my soul.”
HORATIO SPAFFORD
Whatever our lot may be – social distancing, self-isolation, masking or unmasking, differences in political opinions – we must maintain a civil conversation for the health of our soul, both personal and collectively as a nation. If we can’t speak our truth with kindness, then we are destined to repeat the history of great societies before us which have failed. It starts with you and me. What are we doing today to nourish healthy and vibrant souls?
TOO MUCH
Published March 5, 2022 by Nan MykelTHE SPOONs they go round and round
in Someone’s hands, I hope, stirring up
just too much to digest. Craziness,
wherefore art thou shrink?!
Let’s Keep a Perspective
Published March 3, 2022 by Nan Mykel
See the entire post in an excerpted opinion piece in the New York Times: Jay Caspian Kang <nytdirect@nytimes.com> Scraps of footage of blown-up television towers, Russian helicopters coming under what looks like antiaircraft fire, apartment buildings being hit with missiles and the stirring footage of the citizens of Kyiv arming themselves have been seen around the world. Many of these are real, but many more have not been confirmed or verified. We might see what it looks like when an airstrike hits an apartment building, but we do not really know anything else. Where is this building? Who fired upon it? How many people are dead? Is it even in Ukraine? |
| Predictably enough, some of the more stirring footage out of Ukraine has been debunked or had its veracity brought into serious question. This includes video of the so-called Ghost of Kyiv, the purported fighter pilot who took down six Russian planes, and the reported deaths of the soldiers stationed at Snake Island who Zelensky said had died heroically but in fact are all still alive. Widely circulated video that purportedly showed a young Ukrainian girl confronting a Russian soldier actually showed Ahed Tamimi, a young Palestinian activist who was filmed near her home in the West Bank. The footage was shot in 2012. |
| We choose which videos we care about and which ones we do not. This seems simple enough. Our relative acceptance and the timbre of our emotional responses, of course, rely on a mélange of previously held beliefs. In this case, our understanding seems right: One should abhor Vladimir Putin and feel outraged by the invasion of a sovereign nation. As Americans, we should also applaud and feel inspired by the bravery of the Ukrainian people as they defend their homeland from a tyrannic invasion. |
| But we should be able to hold two thoughts in our heads at once. One: The invasion of Ukraine is a humanitarian catastrophe and a uniquely destabilizing event that will destroy lives both in Ukraine and in Russia. Two: So much of what we’ve seen about Ukraine — the images and videos that have inspired the public — are not real. Last week, Sophie Pinkham, an expert on Ukraine and Russia, came on the podcast I host with two of my friends. She estimated that roughly 75 percent of what’s being said about what’s happening in Ukraine is either unverified or just flat out false. |
KEEPIN’ ON
Published March 1, 2022 by Nan Mykel
Image: Pixabay
KEEPIN’ ON
Don’t say why, say how.
Why presupposes an
unattainable degree
of reason, as in truth.
Happiness happened
in graduate school, with
wonder and growing edges
always in process,
Connecting in the same
tongue searching for the
how, puzzled by all the
unsolved mysteries
All the learning not
yet used! The flying bishop,
prophetic dreams, who,
what when where how
The tip of the plow
still unearthing that
which might be now
or in the future.
Could quantum mechanics,
going with the flow, free us
to occupy a niche in
our haunted cave?
I’m still curious and
not willing to leave my
lust for understanding
back with my bones.
Should that occur, I shall
go out hollering and hope
to transition into someone
else’s Muse.
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