2+ hour, 43+ min ago   (355+ words) As the academic year arrives, a new beginning offers hope and excitement. In this setting, I am reminded of every morning sunrise that has a calculated schedule and naturally engages symbiotically with humankind. All living beings experience darkness and light…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (197+ words) While writing this piece, I came across Mary Oliver’s poem: In the film of Dachau and Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsenthe dead rise from the earthand are piled in front of us, the starvedstare across forty years,and lush, green, musical Germanyshows…...

1+ mon, 4+ day ago   (731+ words) Greenfield Recorder Not surprisingly, we are back to a time of scapegoats and scare words but before the progressive left gets too smug, they aren’t excluded. The Republican Party, however, now controlled and cowed by Donald Trump, has brought it…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago   (1007+ words) WENDELL — With the 71 voters in attendance at Saturday’s Annual Town Meeting expressing varying viewpoints, a citizen’s petition article to declare Wendell to be an apartheid-free community was defeated in a 13-40 vote. Residents made quick work of the 30 warrant articles, with…...

4+ mon, 3+ week ago   (836+ words) I began a week-long Caribbean cruise the same day that the Epstein Distraction War (some are calling it the Iran War) began and spent my first day on a beach where husky young American men, fresh off their yachts and…...

4+ mon, 4+ week ago   (334+ words) On Feb. 28 the United States and Israel launched a massive aerial attack against Iran. This column will ask if this war is in America’s best interests. Is this war justified? Yes. The Iranian regime has declared itself an enemy of…...

5+ mon, 1+ week ago   (342+ words) Humans have been dreaming of perfect places (e.g., Heaven, Jannah, Nirvana) and their opposites (Hell, Jahannam, Samsara) for centuries. Thomas More gave us “Utopia” in 1516 and its opposite, dystopia, entered the language about 300 years later. It describes a society or movement…...

6+ mon, 2+ week ago   (932+ words) Jane Goodall, the renowned primatologist and impassioned advocate for nature, founded in her later years an institute through which she launched Roots and Shoots. Young people in more than 60 countries were taught about preserving nature and how to work for…...

7+ mon, 2+ week ago   (704+ words) Greenfield Recorder In 1905, George Santayana wrote that “Those who cannot remember the past are doomed to repeat it.” In the 1970s, historian Russell Jacoby reexamined the American reluctance and rejection of remembering, and learning from, past events, calling it “social amnesia....