A Tulsidas poem that we need at the fractious moment.
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Monthly Archives: February 2026
Dante’s Inferno and My Cancer Biopsy
Undergoing a biopsy for prostate cancer has sent me to Dante’s ninth circle of Inferno for imagery that captures the experience.
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Ralph Chaplin’s Poetic Call to Action
In a poem perhaps written in prison in 1917. Chaplin calls out the “cowed and the meek” who “see the world’s great anguish and its wrong and dare not speak!”
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged “Mourn Not the Dead", GOP legislators, Ralph Chaplin, resistance Comments closed
How Homer Would Judge ICE
When ICE agents arrested people who had served them in a restaurant, they broke a taboo that goes at least as far back as Homer.
Standing Up to Trump’s Nazgul
Battling Trump feels eerily like the hobbits battling Sauron.
Posted in Uncategorized Tagged Donald Trump, ICE deportations, J.R.R. Tolkien, Lord of the Rings Comments closed