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Jesse Jackson’s prophetic words to the Democratic party 42 years ago
What I loved about Jesse Jackson was his appeal to the Democratic Party to embrace his coalition of “the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected, and the despised.” Isn’t it ironic that Trump later demagogued so many of Hilary’s “deplorables” — the same desperate, damned, disinherited, disrespected, and despised people? He cynically seduced so…
Christmas 2025
For the past 60 years, I have been sending out a Christmas message to as many people as I had addresses for. But now that I am almost 97 and have just moved into Assisted Living at Casa Celeste in Seminole, Florida, I am fighting the temptation to “fageddaboudit,” as they used to say in…
AN ADVENT MEDITATION FOR DECEMBER 2025
Here is a beautiful piece borrowed from Mirabai Starr of the Center For Action and Contemplation: Saying Yes to Our Lives Mirabai Starr recounts how she came to say yes to God in her life as it is instead of how she imagined it should be:”All my life, I have been enamored of the God-intoxicated…
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