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I’ve been thinking of these words from Grace Lee Boggs, as I see how my neighbors and my community, and neighbors and communities across the U.S. have been showing their love “for people and place” with their whole, brave selves.

Happy revolutionary Valentines to Minnesotans, to folks all over -

As Jimmy Boggs used to remind us, revolutions are made out of love for people and for place. He often talked about loving America enough to change it. 'I love this country,' he used to say, 'not only because my ancestors' blood is in the soil but because of what I believe it can become.' Love isn't just something you feel. It's something you do everyday when you go out and pick the paper and bottles scattered the night before on the corner, when you stop and talk to a neighbor, when you argue passionately for what you believe in with whoever will listen, when you call a friend to see how they're doing, when you write a letter to the newspaper, when you give a speech and give 'em hell, when you never stop believing that we can all be more than what we are. In other words, Love isn't about what we did yesterday; it's about what we do today and tomorrow and the day after. -Grace Lee Boggs, The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century (2011)

Black and white photo portrait of Grace Lee Boggs, by Robin Holland

"Love isn't just something you feel. It's something you do everyday...Love isn't about what we did yesterday; it's about what we do today and tomorrow and the day after."

-Grace Lee Boggs (1915-2015), The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the 21st Century
#everynightapoem #ofsorts

A Detroit icon.

As Jimmy Boggs used to remind us, revolutions are made out of love for people and for place. He often talked about loving America enough to change it. 'I love this country,' he used to say, 'not only because my ancestors' blood is in the soil but bc of what I believe it can become.'
-Grace Lee Boggs

I’ve been thinking of these words from Grace Lee Boggs, as I see how my neighbors and my community, and neighbors and communities across the U.S. have been showing their love “for people and place” with their whole, brave selves.

Happy revolutionary Valentines to Minnesotans, to folks all over -

As Jimmy Boggs used to remind us, revolutions are made out of love for people and for place. He often talked about loving America enough to change it. 'I love this country,' he used to say, 'not only because my ancestors' blood is in the soil but bc of what I believe it can become.'
-Grace Lee Boggs

As Jimmy Boggs used to remind us, revolutions are made out of love for people and for place. He often talked about loving America enough to change it. 'I love this country,' he used to say, 'not only because my ancestors' blood is in the soil but because of what I believe it can become.' Love isn't just something you feel. It's something you do everyday when you go out and pick the paper and bottles scattered the night before on the corner, when you stop and talk to a neighbor, when you argue passionately for what you believe in with whoever will listen, when you call a friend to see how they're doing, when you write a letter to the newspaper, when you give a speech and give 'em hell, when you never stop believing that we can all be more than what we are. In other words, Love isn't about what we did yesterday; it's about what we do today and tomorrow and the day after. -Grace Lee Boggs, The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century (2011)

Black and white photo portrait of Grace Lee Boggs, by Robin Holland

"Love isn't just something you feel. It's something you do everyday...Love isn't about what we did yesterday; it's about what we do today and tomorrow and the day after."

-Grace Lee Boggs (1915-2015), The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the 21st Century
#everynightapoem #ofsorts

"Ofelia was heroic and brave in the face of ICE's detention and threatened deportation of her father”…attorney representing Torres, said..”We mourn Ofelia's passing, and we hope that she will serve as a model for us all for how to be courageous and to fight for what's right to our last breaths."

1942 Life magazine illustration with four photos on “how to kiss”

“How to Kiss” Life Magazine, 1942

(#HappyValentinesDay, all)

so sweet - congratulations!

Thank you for being part of our twelfth anniversary, Mr. Mayor! It was an honor to have you officiate our marriage.

Mapplethorpe photo of a pair of entwined tulips

Folks, I'm telling you,
birthing is hard
and dying is mean–
so get yourself
a little loving
in between.

Langston Hughes, "Advice"
#everynightapoem #botd

[Robert Mapplethorpe, Tulip, 1985]

1942 Life magazine illustration with four photos on “how to kiss”

“How to Kiss” Life Magazine, 1942

(#HappyValentinesDay, all)

I studied with Joseph Brodsky the great Russian poet and how do I say this, he thought we were lazy American students. We had to memorize 500 lines a week and come in and write them out for him. He said, you Americans are so naive. He said, you think that evil is going to come into your houses wearing big black boots and climb up the stairs-it begins in the language. Look to the language. He said, in the Soviet Union, nothing is permitted and everything is important. In the United States, everything is permitted and nothing is important.

“He said, you Americans are so naive. He said, you think that evil is going to come into your houses wearing big black boots and climb up the stairs—it begins in the language. Look to the language.”

-Joseph Brodsky, as recounted by Marie Howe themillions.com/2018/01/tk-t...

THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM Kay Ryan The room is almost all elephant. Almost none of it isn't. Pretty much solid elephant. So there's no room to talk about it.

The room is
almost all
elephant.
Almost none
of it isn’t.
Pretty much
solid elephant.
So there’s no
room to talk
about it.

-Kay Ryan, “The Elephant in the Room”
#everynightapoem

congratulations!

i love them

Anticipating the year of the horse 🐎

halftime show

what a shot

YouTube video by Tribeca Beam Me Up Sulu | Official Trailer | Tribeca Films

In 1985, a young Trekkie named Stan Woo asked George Takei if he would d star in his low budget Star Trek fan film. Surprisingly, George said yes. Nearly 40 years later, the documentary BEAM ME UP SULU unearths this lost film. www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtqX...

My goal as a parent was always to raise better men than me

I just received a video from one son of my other son juggling dildos outside the Whipple Building

There are many things I could have done better but I can't really argue with the results

The picture and the frame If a picture frame gets broken, as the result of a minor earth tremor, you take the picture to a good picture framer and he makes it a frame that may be better than the original. But if a picture is ugly, as the result of some basic artistic flaw, and its frame remains intact, you will not need it unless you are short of wood for the stove. It is the same thing with an idea: if its frame is broken, you find a stronger, more solid one for it. But if the idea is broken, its sound frame will be no more than a sad memory you preserve like a frustrated shepherd who keeps the bell from one of his rams after it has been killed by wolves.

Mahmoud Darwish T. by Catherine Cobham.

JCPS students at J. Graham Brown School and Manual protest ICE policies. See photos from the walkouts JCPS students from J. Graham Brown School and Manual High School in Louisville held walkouts to protest ICE policies on Friday, Feb. 6, 2026.

Photos capturing walkouts at two Kentucky schools in protest of ICE. The picture of the young boy holding a sign that says "LIAM WAS 5" and "children are being taken away," written in such childlike handwriting, is going to stay with me.

Issue is people like to believe racism is some feature of the mind they can pull in and out of a box when they want to have a little fun and not a guiding philosophy in worldview with material consequences for everyone, not just Black people.

BREAKING: Boston Mayor Michelle Wu has signed an executive order that bans federal officials from using city property for immigration enforcement operations. #bospoli

Developing story by me for @bostonglobe.com

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David Gelernter - Wikipedia

His wiki page is a sentence by sentence horror show ("..the Linda programming system...he named for Linda Lovelace..of Deep Throat, mocking the naming of the programming language Ada in tribute to the scientist and first attributed computer programmer, Ada Lovelace")
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Every elegy is two elegies. One for the dead; one for the living.

Pursued by federal agents, suburban ICE observers remain resolved After a frightening pursuit by federal agents, suburban ICE observers say fear hasn’t stopped them from protecting their communities.

Suburban observers say ICE has only been more aggressive since Homan: “I think they’re getting angry that we’re winning and the country is rallying around us. We’re so organized and we act with such integrity. They don’t want to admit they feel threatened by us.”
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