Dreamers Rise

A morning walk in the woods, January 2017. Below: white oak.

From George Herriman's Krazy Kat, April 23, 1921. Click to enlarge the full strip below. Source: the Comic Strip Library .

I am no poet— and have no religion, no creed, no faith except the little that I need to get up in the morning and dig in a few seeds (n...

I'm not sure of the origin of this panel, which I found on Tumblr with no further credit given. Herriman sprinkled a fair amount of Span...

I dust off this piece, which I wrote more than fifteen years ago, in celebration of Michael Tisserand's splendid new biography, Krazy:...

From top: a carved figurine at the site of a former encampment of the homeless; local fauna; a relic found among the roots of a fallen t...

(A poem from a different time and different circumstances — but like all good prophecies, it has broken the bounds of whatever impulses firs...

Robin Wall Kimmerer: I am trying to understand what it means to own a thing, especially a wild and living being. To have exclusive rights ...

Now that the leaves are off the trees it's the birches I'm noticing more, rather than the grander beeches, oaks, and tulip-trees...

It rains and keeps raining. My soul is wet from hearing it. So much rain. . . — Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet I will die in Pa...

Citing no evidence, our president-elect — and how ashamed, how defiled one feels, personally and as a citizen, having to call him that — has...

This rousing song by Los Lobos has been one of my favorites for more than thirty years. The video for it has a corny '80s feel to it ...

Goya's great series of prints Los desastres de la guerra (The Disasters of War) is renowned for its depiction of the horrors of the Pe...

Universal Music Ireland has released a modestly-priced CD & DVD package devoted to my favorite Irish trad band, Planxty. Entitled Betwee...

Teju Cole: Evil settles into everyday life when people are unable or unwilling to recognize it. It makes its home among us when we are kee...

Chalmers Johnson: As a goddess, Nemesis represents a warning that neither men nor women nor countries can indefinitely ignore the demands o...

I would have preferred to write about Tyler Anbinder's superb new book about "immigrant New York" under happier circumstances,...

Pharaoh he sits in his tower of steel The dogs of money all at his heel Magicians cry "Oh truth! Oh real!" We're all wor...

From the New York Times: [Expletive deleted] said he would quickly cancel a program Mr. Obama put in place by executive action that gave pro...

I first posted the following two years ago, in the wake of another electoral disaster. Everything in it still stands. I'm updating it to...