Celebrating labor

Labor Day is about celebrating workers. Because if nobody worked, we wouldn’t eat, have anywhere to live or much of anything else. Labor makes life possible.

Inside out and topsy-turvy

Life suddenly became totally different, overwhelming. How do we cope? Move forward? To change or not to change and if so, what?

Independence Day

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”

Movies for a long, hot summer

Corruption and crime at the top. • Can we change society? • Peaceful protest, angry violence. • Bringing back great industrial jobs. • Friends forever, for a lifetime. • What if a camera could open up a new world?

Words, meaning, feeling, poetry

I sat at a well-worn table in what used to be a store, now turned into a cultural center of sorts. Listening to a poetry reading. I don’t even remember when I was at a live poetry reading before that.

Train 232 from Copenhagen

Darkening images fly past,
outside the softly vibrating glass.

There’s a draft from the window.
Bags stowed everywhere.

The comet

Black lands with black images,
skies of all absorbing velvet

Poem

Words in pictures
Pictures of words
Impressions captured in a moment

Meeting again and then…

Michael was looking forward to being back in the metropolis where he once lived. Stepping off the train there, he’d meet Jody. It’d been ages. And the last time had gone spectacularly badly.