Ina Coolbrith was the first California Poet Laureate, the first librarian in Oakland, where she met a young Jack London and inspired and encouraged his reading. 🥹Her story is peppered with famous names (Mark Twain, Isadora Duncan, Benjamin Ide Wheeler, and more!) and her poetry earned her acclaim.
Emmanuel Galvan's mission to spread masa and other traditionally made Mexican foods has grown from a pop-up into its first permanent home, taking over the former Standard Fare space.
Farm bill discussions resumed in Congress last week, but experts say the existing proposals won’t address the complex challenges facing farmers and rural communities.
When the Oxford children's dictionary discarded dozens of nature-words—"dandelion," "fern," "starling"—as irrelevant to children's imagination and replaced them with words like "broadband" and "cut-and-paste," this inspired act of resistance was born: www.themarginalian.org/2019/06/17/t...
Berkeley festivals don’t just happen. People make them happen.
If you organize a cultural festival, you could receive up to $7K to bring it to life.
Deadline: March 11 at 11:59pm. ⏳
Events must be free and open to the public in Berkeley.
At my library, I'll pick up today
I think you should. Your print of Freda ( the cat) was lovely
Yeah!!!!
How about a lobster or some other sea critter?
#booksky
And it's beautiful!
Epstein came to the East Bay for the same reasons so many dickheads in history sought out the Pacific: fragrance, tea, more efficient routes for the conduct of trade.
Always love your colors
Survival isn’t justice.
Love how Bay Area writers shine light on each other!
If you haven't learned about Abigail Adams this might be the time to read about a prominent woman in United States history. A famous abolitionist and feminist, she had a strong influence on John Adams' presidency and politics.
On March 31, 1776, Abigail Adams wrote to her husband, John Adams:
Found a less image heavy version of it so deleted and reposting.
#Haiku #Poem #Poetry #Grief
by Gwendolyn Brooks
❤️🩹
Celebrating Women's History Month
That looks yummy! Is the fruit apricot?
“When I get sick of what men do, I have only to walk a few steps in another direction to see what spiders do. Or what the weather does. This sustains me very well indeed.”
~E.B. White, Letter to Carrie A. Wilson (May 1, 1951)
#Nature 📷©vivibene1
“Rollins is … neglecting the incredible diversity of small farmers, farmhands, fruit pickers, beginning farmers, and small business owners who ... make California’s agriculture the powerhouse that it is,” write professors Adam Calo and Madeleine Fairbairn in an op-ed.
There wasn't an empty seat left at Henry J. Kaiser auditorium, evidence of how beloved the nation's oldest park ranger was.
War: humanity’s default setting.
Every time I watch it, I see something I haven't seen before. 20 years later I still feel the beauty of it all.
One of my favorite movies! I watch it every year
When debate is futile – Bertrand Russell's remarkable response to a fascist's provocation www.themarginalian.org/2016/10/06/b...
