“Turning and turning, in the widening gyre/the falcon cannot hear the falconer/Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold/Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world/the blood-dimmed tide is loosed and everywhere/the ceremony of innocence is drowned/The best lack all conviction/while the worst/are full of passionate intensity. (W.B. Yeats “The Second Coming”, 1919) Published in 1920, this … Continue reading The Center Cannot Hold
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Men and Boys are in Trouble
This isn't what I expected to write when I sat down today. But here it is. A rant. This subject has been chewing on me for awhile now. Honestly, I wish I didn't have to write this blog. But I have been waiting for men to speak publicly about why men and boys are blowing … Continue reading Men and Boys are in Trouble
Mother Africa
Friends, if you are like me, you are on the verge of vomiting from anymore political news coming out of the clown administration in Washington D.C. It comes thick and fast everyday. The perverse surprise is that this administration's actions actually have left no stone uncovered, no sector of our economy untouched, most human classes … Continue reading Mother Africa
LETTING GO
So much is dropping away. Everyday. We are in a time of both—the awakening and the darkening of the imagination of humankind. Paradoxically, these two things always seem to happen at the same time throughout the human story. For those in power in the U.S. today, the idea is to destroy the levers of democracy, … Continue reading LETTING GO
Anita Amstutz 