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I've been thinking about The Peculiar Institution, as American slavery was called.  I'm reading a book,  Lives Bound Together , whic...

Dear friends:   Most important first:  If you can give some money to the survivors of the disastrous Camp Fire, that would be a great thin...

My dear friend Rosalia in Morocco  sent me this video tribute to Kashoggi from a close friend.  Kashoggi longed to build democracy in t...

Yesterday I went to the wonderful  march in San Francisco, protesting the insanity of our country's suicidal policies concerning climate...

Every year a different town in Holland is chosen for the national last-weekend-in-June Gay Pride parade -- named Roze Zaterdag (Pink ...

The view from my friends' apartment.  Note the flower-bedecked bicycle in the lower right corner.   There are many scattered through...