Mastodawn

I come back to this post every so often. We can't win with poetry alone, but without poetry what world are we hoping for? https://biketoworkbarb.blogspot.com/2023/08/we-are-ones-weve-been-waiting-for-poems.html

Personal blog with heavy doses of bicycling, public policy, social justice, and family life.

If you've never read Mary Oliver's poem "Of the Empire" you should. It's a heartbreaker.

We will be known as a culture that feared death and adored power, that tried to vanquish insecurity for...