Love After Love shorturl.at/uXk4I from WHAT BOOK!? – Buddha Poems from Beat to Hiphop | | | Paperback $15. ebook $6.99. Order from publisher tinyurl.com/388e4vucor or wherever books are sold. For more info: tinyurl.com/mr3byt9p
#NationalPoetryMonth #poetry #mindfulness #mindful #love

Monthly Report

#Poetry never sleeps. But every year it's given its #poetrymonth,
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May I End My Life With You?

a woman writes with candor about a friend's suicide
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/s...

wishing you a whole healing

Fragments of Beirut in Lana Daher’s Do You Love Me Rather than offer a linear retelling of Lebanon’s history, the film draws our attention to the internal rhymes and rhythms of collective memory.

As Israel’s war on Lebanon rages on ...
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Lack of actors trained in diplomacy is absolutely an important factor here. Likewise, the economic war ( dedollarization ) isn't part of routine US media coverage. Question: under the new agreement shall payment be $2B/ship – or is that amount to be denominated in Yuan ?

As you know, the economic war ( dedollarization ) isn't part of routine US media coverage.

Question: Is denomination of currency part of the current agreement? I.E. Yuan ?

Is denomination of currency part of the current agreement? I.E. Yuan ?

Is denomination of currency part of the current agreement? I.E. Yuan ?

Citizens in Iran line up around their power plants and along their bridges in hopes of fending off destruction.

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Paying attention is a form of reciprocity with the living world, receiving the gifts with open eyes and open heart.
–Robin Wall Kimmerer

What would it take ...

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@raphaelguintoli.bsky.social

today is the final day of the Season for #NonViolence,
.
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Beneath cherry blossoms
no one's a stranger

Please call me by my true names - Thich Nhat Hanh - Words of Wonder - Mindfulness Association Please call me by my true names - Thich Nhat Hanh - Words of Wonder - Don’t say that I will depart tomorrow —even today I am still arriving.

by Thich Nhat Hanh
from his book of collected poems, of the same name
& also included in my anthology WHAT BOOK!? ~ Buddha Poems from Beat to Hiphop
both available from @parallax.org

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#war #peace #mindfulness #compassion

ThIS JUSt IN: Trump Administration Orders Dismantling of the National Forest Service. Reporting by morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/breaking-t...

"Iran After the Fire"—a Speculative Ethnography A writer imagines Iran one year in the future, after the bombs have stopped falling, and the resulting political and social landscape.

Shahram Khosravi, professor of Anthropology at Stockholm University, imagines Iran one year in the future.
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Hegseth asks Army’s top general to retire immediately as Iran war rages The Pentagon intends to replace him with a leader aligned with Hegseth and President Donald Trump’s vision for the Army, an official told Military Times.

"You're fired." U.S. Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George.

www.militarytimes.com/news/pentago...

Hegseth asks Army’s top general to retire immediately as Iran war rages The Pentagon intends to replace him with a leader aligned with Hegseth and President Donald Trump’s vision for the Army, an official told Military Times.

Yet another who doesn't align with the vision of the administration – U.S. Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George.

That's all we are told.

www.militarytimes.com/news/pentago...

Bluesky's 2025 $100M Series B Lays Foundation for Open Social Web - Bluesky In April 2025, Bluesky raised $100 million in Series B funding led by Bain Capital Crypto. Since our Series A, we've grown from 13 million to over 43 million global users.

Last April, we raised $100M in Series B funding. This round gives us the ability to scale our team to meet the rapid growth of Bluesky and the AT Protocol. Read more: bsky.social/about/blog/0...

Prior to the speech by the US President, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian posted an open letter to the American public.

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The Supreme Court Has Never Heard a Case As Easy As This One This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis....

Crystal cllarity as to the argument before SCOTUS to undo #birthright #citizenship from
@talkingpointsmemo.com

* talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/the-sup...

* talkingpointsmemo.com/news/supreme...

And a liveblog:
* talkingpointsmemo.com/live-blog/su...

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"When does a war end?" | Br. Pháp Dung | 2026-03-29 YouTube video by Deer Park Monastery

Br. Pháp Dung ( pronounced Yung ) is Abbot of Deer Park Monastery, in the hills above San Diego.
This Sunday he offered this public talk, "When Does a War End?"
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#war #peace #mindfulness

411, but in any event i hear i hear

I speak with the future. We sit on our skeletons’ bones. / We hear with our skeletons’ bones.

#PoetryMonth bergins tomorrow so day-before here's a new poem by Jane Hirshfield
poets.org/poem/i-speak...

#poetry #poem

200 Ukrainian soldiers close the sky around Iran YouTube video by RFU News — Strategic Geopolitics

Role of #Ukraine in #Israel-US | #Iran #war.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCpU...

Hive Mind
Basic #Nutrition Question

Does food interact with our body in such a way that it could be said that in the process we ourselves are eaten ?

Iran Earning $139 Million a Day From Oil as Hormuz Crisis Locks Out Rivals

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Question: is that $139M the dollar equivalent of transactions conducted in Yuan (CNY) ?