Live Life Deliberately
At that time Jesus went through the grainfields on the Sabbath. His disciples were hungry and began to pick some heads of grain and eat them. When the Pharisees saw this, they said to him, “Look! Your disciples are doing what is unlawful on the Sabbath.” He answered, “Haven’t you read what David did when…
From Publishers Weekly: Good Books Young Troublemakers, a book club for middle graders that highlights potentially controversial content, began as a local venture at Dog-Eared Books in Ames, Iowa. Now that the organization has been granted nonprofit, 501(c)3 status, founder Tanvi Rastogi plans to establish chapters across the U.S., directing kids and caregivers to book…
I remember joy It was a long time ago When the sun shone brightly And you wore a halo glow The flowers were in full bloom And birdsong filled the air Under an azure sky we laughed In our world we didn’t have a care I awoke with you in the morning Each and every…
From Women Writers,Women’s Books: Who remembers 2012? Major news that year: the shooting death of a Black teenager named Trayvon Martin, a hurricane named Sandy that flooded the East Coast, and a mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary that took the lives of 18 schoolchildren and 9 adults. It was the literary year of Gone…
Imtiaz Dharker, photo by Ayesha Dharker Imtiaz Dharker is a poet, artist and video film maker, awarded the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry in 2014, Chancellor of Newcastle University. Her seven collections, all published by Bloodaxe Books, include Over the Moon and the latest, Shadow Reader. Her poems have featured widely on BBC radio,…
Those who care not for thereafter care neither for judgement today, their sentence evoking mere laughter as they shuffle their coil away. Measure for measure the scales dip and rise a pound of flesh can mean naught, to the debtor who plucked sight from his eyes and was blinded to what he had…
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U.S.A. For Africa We Are the World U.S.A. for Africa We Are the World – by – Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie There is a time when we should hear the certain calls ‘Cause the world it seems it’s right in this line ‘Cause there’s a chance for taking in needin…source
Builders? Yes … War Mongers? … No ©2024 Bob Atkinson Al Jazeera how can this human race travel into deep dark space where our penchant for wars of aggression follows us closely to bright starlit sections War Monger this would seem biological infection ant…source
how long have these tongues been training, gathering miles in this march?all sinew and song now, seeding a note long overdue, stitched in the scarsof familial bones, now wind at broken backs where you fire at newborn ghosts haunted by the children of the children you meant to unwrite but their nameswere in the same…