meaning could only be shaped in relation
“Lord, increase my bewilderment.”
(KA)
AG2025_DSF6661a or shaped in relation
Category: language
laser-focussed on the needs of ordinary people
“If anything, it is a very effective form of antifascist economic policy. We are at a moment where the crisis of economic security, of affordability, that comes with basic questions of dignity and identity are being used by the far right in ways that fuel the return of fascist tendencies. I think that having an agenda that is laser-focussed on the needs of ordinary people is what we need, and that is basically where the Democrats fell flat last year. At the federal level and the global level, we are dealing with the consequences of that lack of vision right now.”
Isabella M. Weber, a professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst on Zohran Mamdani electorial proposals. (New Yorker)
AG2025_DSF6194b or did we falter
It was summer when I found you
In the meadow long ago,
And the golden vetch was growing
By the shore.
Did we falter when love took us
With a gust of great desire?
Does the barely bid the wind wait
In his course?
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US says Haitians can be deported – days after ruling Haiti unsafe for Americans. (The Guardian)
I felt her presence, by its spell of might
I heard the trailing garments of the Night
Sweep through her marble halls!
I saw her sable skirts all fringed with light
From the celestial walls!
I felt her presence, by its spell of might,
Stoop o’er me from above;
The calm, majestic presence of the Night,
As of the one I love.
Hymn to the Night, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Glimpses ineffable of things divine
The subtlest strain a great musician weaves,
Cannot attain in rhythmic harmony
To music in his soul. May it not be
Celestial lyres send hints to him? He grieves
That half the sweetness of the song, he leaves
Unheard in the transition. Thus do we
Yearn to translate the wondrous majesty
Of some rare mood, when the rapt soul receives
A vision exquisite. Yet who can match
The sunset’s iridescent hues? Who sing
The skylark’s ecstasy so seraph-fine?
We struggle vainly, still we fain would catch
Such rifts amid life’s shadows, for they bring
Glimpses ineffable of things divine.
Limitations, Henrietta Cordelia Ray
Polls are now closed in New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary, a crowded race that has largely narrowed into a contest between Andrew Cuomo, the state’s former governor, and Zohran Mamdani, a state assemblyman and democratic socialist. ??
AG2025AG2025_1011608aas but they were there
There were no photos of them, but they were there in the pictures of trees behind their houses, the fields where they worked, the river they fished, the church where they testified, the joints where they drank. (TM)
AG2020_2000430-2 or what we do
The beauty of what we do is its secrecy, its smallness. (TM)