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Photo by GEORGE DESIPRIS from Pexels Let Birds (Click above) I met Linda Gregg in silence first, through Jack Gilbert, through their poetry.Later, by telephone.In my world she’s one of the great disciples of real gut, romantic poetry,herself half burned by love. A survivor of love.Its angst, its grief, its grace, its longing. Without anger or bitterness. To […]

Sentenced to more than a chilling 43 years in prison. For being critical, on SOCIAL MEDIA, of THAILAND’s monarchy. A former civil servant in the Thai Revenue Department for nearly 30 years, Anchan Preelert, age 65. In response to, to silence, democracy-reform protests in that country. Demanding the King be held accountable under the constitution.

H2O = Water SiO2 = Glass KT = Ko Takamine Life = a Journey, a Promise, and an Environment Journey of the Spirit uniting the Soul. Elective.Promise of Service to a meaningful connection with fellow man. Elective.Environment. Everything else (98% of life). Broken and unbroken. Like a haiku or cherry blossom, KT’s Sacred Reunion captures

Verse 11: Love is the initial barrier to evil. We love before we move to punish. What has just happened asks as much for patient and careful understanding as it does for Lincoln’s words – These expressions, differing in form, are identical in object and effect – the supplanting the principles of free government, and

Pray for our Nation, such as it is. Pray for our World. No one said it better than Lincoln: Four score and seven years [before the Battle of Gettysburg] our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we