The Wild Reed

My “ season of listening ” continues. As I’ve mentioned previously , one writer whose words I’m using as a guide throughout this season i...

See also the previous Wild Reed posts: • Urbanscapes – 6/28/23 • Urbanscapes – 11/20/22 • Spring Light in Skylight • “Sm...

The following 6-minute video is an excerpt from a much lengthier interview that Yanis Varoufakis conducted with author Naomi Klein this pa...

See also the previous Wild Reed posts: • Let the Greening Begin • New Spring Green • Green Destiny • Welcoming the Return of Spring ...

I am an 83-year-old American Jew. Whole swaths of my family were wiped out in the Holocaust. When Israel was born, my community celebrated....

W e are all tired. Really, we are. It’s a hard road, but it’s also a beautiful one. Perhaps we expect too much from ourselves and from oth...

T hese reflections of what I feel There’s no use hiding it The thing inside of me still Is undeniably real Something inside me says I...

For a while now I’ve been disappointed by the actions of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. In the past I’ve been energized and inspired by her prog...

I’m on the mailing list of author, philosopher and all-round visionary thinker Jean Houston . Earlier today I received the following messag...

A nyone who walks out of your life, this is a gift. You do not want people who are half in, half out. And you are such a lovely and beaut...

See also the previous Wild Reed posts: • In This In-Between Time • March Vignettes • Spring Light in Skyway • Welcoming the Retur...

Earlier today author and activist Marianne Williamson joined the We the 66 podcast to discuss her experience as an “outsider” presidential...