Now that school is out you may have more time to spend with your family or more of a need to occupy them while you get on with important work. Take a look at this week’s five new activities to help! Then, revisit our 260 other activities through our “Every Activity” Index at the top […]
Monday’s Thought – with Rick Larios (7/1
“A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson Startling minds can be encountered in person through conversation (by listening!), or by books, art or media of various kinds. Attention is all that is required. Read yesterday’s Thought. […]
Friday’s Thought – with Rick Larios (7/1
Three Poems by June Jordan Drizzle spills soft air jasmine smothering a storm darkness surrounds me********Bay waters rolling birds glide above broken rocks I am not alone********Trumpet vine sneaks in dressing up the window screen tendrils wreck the wall from The Collected Poems, Directed by Desire (Copper Canyon Press, 2007) Jordan was a poet, teacher, and activist. She […]
Thursday’s Thought – with Rick Larios (7
“Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.” –Simone Weill The outcome should be not that everyone gets the same but everyone gets what they need. A just society takes care […]