She just told me how to be a real ally. (groan) It’s what I was afraid of.

The woman was recording her podcast from Australia where she’d just immigrated. She was laying on her bed and trying to get her pillow comfortable.  That’s what she was doing when she said this.  It rattled me so completely that I forgot her name.  It’s not an exact quote either.  It’s what I can remember. … Continue reading She just told me how to be a real ally. (groan) It’s what I was afraid of.

The disappointment is painfully deep

I’m feeling deep disappointment about the explosive situation in the Washington County Court.  What are the sick motivations of that handful of county Justices who see themselves as keepers of the purse and deciders of who deserves help and who should suffer?    Our homeless population (roughly 2000 souls) is 30% long-term homeless, 33% veterans,… Continue reading The disappointment is painfully deep

NOW Rules in Agonizing Ways

We want a future that works for everyone.  But NOW still rules in agonizing ways.  People are suffering and there’s too much blindness to it. I hope you’ve contacted your Quorum Court members. (scroll down the page to find them) Many people have, and more messages are needed.  The pressure is being felt.  (Maybe you noticed… Continue reading NOW Rules in Agonizing Ways

Distressed beyond measure

Since I’m roiling inside and can’t really think of much else the topic for today has to be public leaders who don’t care.  Yes, I’m still distressed at the Washington County Quorum Court, and the disdain that was shown to people in need at Thursday night’s meeting. JP Eva Madison tried very hard to make… Continue reading Distressed beyond measure

Dear HARK, Don’t Sit On The Money Please

“The poor we have always with us…” the holy book says.  But sometimes things happen that are just so beyond the reckoning of men that lives and communities are destroyed.  Wars and insurrection in our backyards, change of climate, and pandemics, for instance.  All of which happen to be threatening, at the moment, or already… Continue reading Dear HARK, Don’t Sit On The Money Please

The Nuclear Monster Living in Fayetteville

Somewhere deep in the halls of the College of Engineering at the University of Arkansas there’s a lab designing nuclear weapons.  It’s true.  We know it because of a publication recently released by ICAN: “Schools of Mass Destruction:  American Universities in the US Nuclear Weapons Complex” https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/ican/pages/430/attachments/original/1574113227/ICAN-Schools-of-mass-Destruction_nov2019.pdf?1574113227 ICAN is the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear… Continue reading The Nuclear Monster Living in Fayetteville

A Hope that armed insurrection was the last loud climax

Wednesday Jan 6.   We won’t forget that day very quickly. In spite of their protestations today that all the violence was from BLM and antifa, (what?) the Proud Boys and Q-Anon people showed their colors.  It was, I guess, the “storm” Q-Anon has been planning for since 2017. For awhile all their fantasies got played… Continue reading A Hope that armed insurrection was the last loud climax