Elaine Olund

How the screams echo in our hearts… It is hard to find peace during war.

How the screams echo in our hearts…

It is hard to find peace during war.

Rise and Fall On Rising, and Falling.

Rise and Fall

On Rising, and Falling.

Some days peace is harder to find! My feed was suddenly overflowing with posts about having babies--and my childrearing days are behind me. What is going on?

Elusive, alive, worth envisioning. Peace.
(Somedays it's hard to find).

Getting back into posting from my sketchbook... follow along if you like.

“The necklace of hours the window wears”

when a poem reminds you why you write poetry

Thanks for spreading the word, my friend! 💛 you are so right about first steps…

Climate Meditation & Writing Workshop

In May, 2025, the first session of Climate Meditation & Writing Workshop was held at Studio Kroner in downtown Cincinnati. It was part of All Else Pales 2, a month-long, multi-disciplinary exhibition exploring climate change, sustainability, and environmental…

America feels like a country on the brink of an authoritarian takeover | Francine Prose This is the news we should be paying attention to. At least for the moment, everything else is a distraction

America feels like a country on the brink of an authoritarian takeover | Francine Prose

One of the best things I’ve read in a while:

Dug this up for anyone who needs it. If you get the chance, please read about Frank Marble from Caltech, and take inspiration from him.

This is a man who openly defied the FBI during McCarthyism, even knowing it could kill his scientific career.

Never has a President wagged a dog harder than Trump and MAGA now.

To distract from Epstein, the explosion of health and homeowners insurance costs, and the tariffs that are decimating small businesses, Trump is plunging this country into a war and using our soldiers as pawns.

I'm boosting myself to say this:

You're going to see people On Here tell you calling electeds doesn't matter. That's not true.

Some are bots. Some are people who like being contrary to be edgy.

But calling moves the needle, especially against a blatantly illegal act by Trump and Co. ACT.

I mean, Jude Law.

“This morning I was writing—the words were just flowing and doing their thing—then I had a zoom meeting and the words died. They are gone. Such is the writing life with its daily graves.”

-- Alina Stefanescu

Lame duck or...insane duck? Discuss.

That’s disturbing!!

Release the Epstein Files The public deserves to know the extent of Epstein’s abuse and to hold accountable anybody—regardless of political affiliation—who enabled it. Add your name to the petition to demand the Department of ...

The public deserves to know the extent of Epstein’s abuse and to hold accountable anybody—regardless of political affiliation—who enabled it. Add your name to the petition to demand the Department of Justice and White House publicly release the files.
sign.moveon.org/petitions/ep...

NFL: No ICE at the 2026 Super Bowl! The @NFL must act NOW to stop Trump's ICE from targeting the Super Bowl LX where Bad Bunny will be performing at the halftime show before it’s too late. #SBLX #AppleMusicHalftime

The NFL must act NOW to stop ICE from targeting the Super Bowl LX where Bad Bunny will be performing at the halftime show before it’s too late. #SBLX #AppleMusicHalftime sign.moveon.org/petitions/su...

Ugh, the whole world has gone mad, feels like.

Reading Wendell Berry, from 1977. He saw all this coming.

Honestly this is the only logical, coherent thing I’ve heard him say. It is sensible to be mindful on the stairs, especially as we age. But everything else is batshit nuts.

Feeling wistful.

Help 18 yo Uday, 3 yo Kemal and their family survive Hi all, we are Sky and Ashley from the USA and Claudia and Brenda from the Netherlands and we started this fundraiser for our kind and caring friend Uday Banar and his family of 7.

Just donated in support of my daughter’s friends in Gaza…Help 18 yo Uday, 3 yo Kemal and their family survive chuffed.org/project/uday...

Every Every ditch or stream or river the train crosses. Every ploughed field, every row of trees. Every square church tower in the distance. Every minute of sunshine, every shadow. Every wisp of cloud in the wide, blue, East Anglian sky. Every day. Every day that's left.

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From 'Anecdotal Evidence' (2018)
—Wendy Cope

#poetry #poems #booksky

No Kings Cincinnati.

No Kings March, Cincinnati Ohio. Do you hear that thunder? That's the sound of strength in numbers ...

This is why people don't support big media. Greta Thunberg was kidnapped. Point blank. Was on international waters. Israel is not the world Police. They do not have jurisdiction in international waters. That is kidnapping. No denying it. And not a single […]

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