My poem, #EarthDay 2026, looks past the green slogans to the 'ghosts of intention' left behind by cancelled progress. It’s a critique of a world where drilling is treated like prayer & war remains the greatest consumer of all—yet, somehow, the earth keeps offering us another morning to get it right.
A Very Beautiful Photo of the Night Side of Earth from the ISS by Tom Pesquet.
We can have a little rule of law, as a treat?
"the rule of law, checks and balances and the peaceful transition of power..."
www.scientificamerican.com/article/ex-n...
Testimony of Rev. Black regarding ICE and CBP practices of violence & terror. democrats-homeland.house.gov/imo/media/do...
A photo of Earth taken by the crew of Artemis II.
Born in fire, battered by the wreckage of colliding worlds, covered for eons in magma, wracked by volcanoes, frozen and thawed again and again, and after everything went just wrong and right enough, here it is: our home. The rarest gift in the known universe.
Happy Earth Day.
Which book saved you as a child?
#BookSky
YES YES THIS
Trans invisible-ization (I’m sure there is a better word for this) is, if you know how to look, a huge red arrow pointing to the malevolent undercurrents of religious nationalism, USA-style.
So it is important to know how to look, in order to be able to see.
Max K. Strassfeld on the importance of religious studies:
"As a scholar of trans studies and religion, it is clear to me that the current moment demands nuanced, critical, and complex analyses about the role gender and religion are playing in our political lives."
#TalkAboutHumanities
It's written in the starlight
And every line on your palm:
We are fools to make war
On our brothers in arms.
--Straits 5:9
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.
White woman in black polo shirt and glasses; short cropped grey hair White woman with shoulder-length blonde, lowlight bob wearing black blouse "Studying religion as it is actually lived on the ground enables us to understand the different ways religion can be both a force of harm and a force of justice. It forces us to question our idealizations and grapple with the complexities of gendered power."
Ann Gleig and Amy Langenberg on why we need more scholars of religion:
"Studying religion as it is actually lived on the ground enables us to understand the different ways religion can be both a force of harm and a force of justice."
#TalkAboutHumanities
What’s the opposite of Oh My How Surprising
Honestly some days #amteaching rapid lesson plan adjustment under way
This is a supervillain monlogue. I will never understand how anyone can watch this man say things like “a whole civilization will die tonight” and fail to recognize evil when they see it.
Now it’s time to play a game! Everybody: what is a “consultant class Catholic?”
My guess: it’s a person who is very visibly Catholic in specific ways (correct bumper sticker, correct style of cross in tattoo, etc. ) & can thereby offer advice, assessment, etc. to pastors, experts in theology, etc.
Someone said, this world is so boring; we don’t have mermaids, werewolves, vampires or other mystical creatures.
Someone replied and said, yall can’t even handle people with different skin colors
🫢 I was gagged
Looks like even Trump‘s straw man is kind of fed up with his nonsense.
Only as the Day is Long By Dorianne Laux Soon she will be no more than a passing thought, a pang, a timpani of wind in the chimes, bent spoons hung from the eaves on a first night in a new house on a street where no dog sings, no cat visits a neighbor cat in the middle of the street, winding and rubbing fur against fur, throwing sparks. Her atoms are out there, circling the earth, minus her happiness, minus her grief, only her body's water atoms, her hair and bone and teeth atoms, her fleshy atoms, her boozy atoms, her saltines and cheese and tea, but not her piano concerto atoms, her atoms of laughter and cruelty, her atoms of lies and lilies along the driveway and her slippers, Lord her slippers, where are they now?
#poetry #writingcommunity
#nationalpoetrymonth #poem
Another exquisite one from Dorianne Laux
Emilie M. Townes on why we need more ethicists:
“More often than not, when someone finds out I am a college professor and asks what I teach, and I reply ‘ethics,’ there is a roll of the eyes and a somewhat hopeful sigh.
They then say, ‘Oh, we need you today!’ Exactly.”
#TalkAboutHumanities
This. Hurts.
Here’s a break from the horrors: happy annual Pizza day, to all whom celebrate.
youtu.be/ufSQMXLO95w?...
Pizzagate? The pizzapault? Do we have a name for this yet? Anyway. I miss Jerry Remy.
Today's Headline And then one day, while I read aloud to my husband the news and felt the widening hole in my heart, he raised his hand to quiet me. I followed his gaze out the window to see in the yard a small fluffy thing with black and white eyespots on its head. A northern pygmy owl beside our door, stout body slightly smaller than my fist. It turned its neck a full half circle to look at me with bright yellow eyes. In an instant, I shifted from disgust with the world to awe. Awe for this fierce bespeckled miracle, this wonder of feather and beak and claw, this small being in the grass looking back at me as if to say, Here is also the news. How surprising the world can be. How quickly, when I let it, amazement overwrites my fear and makes of the hole in my heart a home. -Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
Why do we even bother with endnotes--this is my personal pet peeve as a historian, I need to read the spicy, sassy, whiny footnotes immediately
So do we think Bishop Barron is weak or strong on crime?
I am loving these
THE DALAI LAMA IS WEAK ON MONETARY POLICY.
In Springsteen’s words: everybody has a Hungary heart
Gone to the zoo
[youth pastor voice] Do you know who else was weak on crime?