the years fall like dead leaves around my feet collect like flower petals and dandelion spores dirt and dust, forgotten and beautiful collect like a legacy, a nothingness existence floating on a cloud, water vapor here and nowhere, visceral and forgotten nothing more than the light filtering through the trees full as the ocean mighty as the ant life shoots from my fingertips lasers breaching ever further into the darkness, eternal and it sputters, fleeting inside of me no more than a seconds flash, a spark that dies, its absence announcing the darkness

Every morning, I check the vegetables growing in our shaggy garden. I pull aside the yellowed cucumber leaves their spines leaving silent traces on my fingers delicate pain. I caress the bumpy smoothness of the baby cucumbers, I squint at the mold spots on the tomatoes unsure what to do? …

Our despair is so great we must invent a new language of grief. Devise new words for the loss of our entire world. How does one mourn a glacier? Where does one hold a funeral for a coral reef? …

With impeachment proceedings beginning and a new scandal every day, it is easy to feel that Trump’s days are numbered. But there are many signs that, like that weird rash you got in college, Trump might not be so easy to get rid of. Here are a few of…

Why Bernie Supporters Don’t Care He’s a Grumpy Old Man With a Heart Condition Because we aren’t voting to pick the greatest overall human specimen. The objective or subjective merit or physical health of the president is ultimately irrelevant. …

Bernie Sanders’ Campaign Isn’t a Long Shot, It’s a Hail Mary. — “It is rarely acknowledged that capitalism itself might be the problem.” Chris Williams, Ecology and Socialism. Tackling the existential threat of climate change will require the reworking of nearly every aspect of American society. We must move towards zero emissions, and we must do so now. But to even begin…

Joe and Kamala’s underwhelming performances at the second democratic debate revealed an important fact: neither of them are particularly well-equipped to take down Trump. Contrasted with the one-two punch of Bernie and Elizabeth from the night before when the two progressive frontrunners electrified our small screens with their big ideas…

They’re called prisons and jails and they are in every city, county, and state in our union. — When I worked as a criminal defense attorney, I referred to the criminal courtroom as the gates of hell. Here was a place that swallowed men whole. People entered it, sometimes as free men, and left in chains, perhaps never to be seen again. I thought of this when I…