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Illinois Governor JB Pritzker delivered this state of the state address on Feb. 18, 2026 . Full address here .  Excerpt: "I have joked ...

The Sun Magazine   July 2013 Garden Bees Traffic stop

Everything is beautiful and I am so sad. This is how the heart makes a duet of wonder and grief. The light spraying through the lace of the ...

This poem summarizes the downstream impact of City Councilors saying no to every possible policy solution to the upstream causes of homeles...

Today's sermon by visiting minister the Rev. Nathan Ryan from Baton Rouge challenged us not to be distracted by the intentional overwhel...

Five times a day, I make tea. I do this because I like the warmth in my hands, like the feeling of self-directed kindness. I’m not used to i...

 Today, life seems impossibly complicated. And hard. (Warning: whining ensues.) While you would think that the awareness of good things happ...

Most of the leaves are gone from the maple. Other years it's glowed with color but in drought the leaves just turned brown and dropped. ...

Who would be a turtle who could help it? A barely mobile hard roll, a four-oared helmet, she can ill afford the chances she must take in ro...

When I can no longer say thank you for this new day and the waking into it, for the cold scrape of the kitchen chair and the ticking of the ...

 7/12/2025 Part 1: Be Where You Are Once poetry has entered your soul, it will always have a place there. Poetry didn’t find a way into my h...

There is no end to love. We may tear ourselves away, or fall off the cliff we thought sacred, or return one day to find the home we dreamt o...

  Maxwell Frost (D-Fla.): “Republicans would have us believe that the person most likely to steal from you is a Black person in a hoodie or ...

 We Don't Know - Strumbrellas We've Got You - Vienna Teng Level Up - Vienna Teng One Moment - OK Go  Catch & Release - Matt Simm...

 From  Innocence Regained: Christmas Poems So much is missing now, so much is taken from us. We define our lives by absences, by cannot-have...

You get to be 49, and you realize there's not TOO much more time to shape your life. As the kids get older, more independent, and, perha...

I used to pretend to believe in God. Mainly, I liked so much to talk to someone in the dark. Think of how far a voice must have to travel to...

“We have enjoyed fine dreams; we have dreamed of unifying the world; we are unifying it—against us.”

I'm attending a conference in Denver. In a session on power dynamics, the presenters made the suggestion to journal about where you are ...

“At some point the press needs to stop adopting right-wing framing that this is a 'DEI purge' and call it what it is — white suprem...