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Category Archives: environment
TCS: Guerrilla Gardening – Making Sense in a Senseless World
Good Morning! ____________________________ Welcome to The Coffee Shop, just for you early risers on Monday mornings. This is an Open Thread forum, so if you have an off-topic opinion burning a hole in your brainpan, feel free to add a comment. ____________________________ … Continue reading
Posted in environment, Poetry, The Coffee Shop
Tagged Gardening, Guerrilla Gardening – Making Sense in a Senseless World, Sunflower Guerrilla Gardening, TCS, The Brussels Farmers, Urban Blight
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Polar Bears at Abandoned Weather Station
Abby E. Murray, poet and creative writing teacher, served as Poet Laureate of Tacoma, Washington from 2019 to 2021. She became a pacifist during her years as a college student, but married a soldier in 2004, and is confronted daily … Continue reading
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Tagged Abby E Murray, Polar Bears at Abandoned Weather Station, The Right to Joy
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TCS: The Frost-Fires Kindle – Winter Poems
Good Morning! ____________________________ Welcome to The Coffee Shop, just for you early risers on Monday mornings. This is an Open Thread forum, so if you have an off-topic opinion burning a hole in your brainpan, feel free to add a comment. ____________________________ … Continue reading
Posted in Holidays, Poetry, The Coffee Shop, Winter
Tagged December, I heard a bird sing in the dark of December, TCS, The Frost-Fires Kindle - Winter Poems
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Old December’s Bareness
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English playwright, poet, actor, and theatrical company partner; widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world’s greatest dramatist. He is often called England’s national poet and the “Bard of Avon.” To read William … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Winter
Tagged December, Sonnet, William Shakespeare
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Winter Solstice Day 2020
This is a reprise, with some editing, of a story I wrote six years ago about the Winter Solstice. In the northern hemisphere, this is the day with the least amount of sunlight and most hours of darkness. The southern … Continue reading
A Poem for the 50th Earth Day
Today is Earth Day #50, but it will not be a celebration of our planet’s beauty and bounty. Nor will we march in protest of the many governments still lacking the political will to turn us back from our current … Continue reading
Posted in environment, Poetry
Tagged A Poem for the 50th Earth Day, Earth Day, Jane Hirshfield, My Debt
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TCS: Journeywork of the Stars
Good Morning! ________________________________________________ Welcome to The Coffee Shop, just for you early risers on Monday mornings. This is an Open Thread forum, so if you have an off-topic opinion burning a hole in your brainpan, feel free to add a … Continue reading
The fogs that shroud the Congressional Review Act … GOPredation
By ann summers This Congressional Review Act bill is important: It restores federalism and is pro-life. https://t.co/fnPMG8Q0Pi â Paul Ryan (@SpeakerRyan) February 15, 2017 Sam Bee had a segment on Full Frontal regarding the Congressional Review Act (CRA), another of … Continue reading
Posted in 2016 Election, Congress, Conservatives, environment, Government, Presidential Elections, Presidents, Uncategorized
Tagged Congress, congressional review act, Media, Paul Ryan, Politics
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Your home heating prices will go up because Giant Yam won’t bring back coal jobs
By ann summers Clueless natural Gasbag’s “post-truth” promises to cull votes with more coal jobs will now make your home heating prices go up with little effect on returning coal jobs to the US coal belt. But that was … Continue reading
Fracking WikiLeaks’ “right circumstances”
By ann summers WikiLeaks is continuing to publish more emails from the account of John Podesta, the chair of Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign. One newly published email revealed that Clinton privately bashed environmentalists opposed to fracking and the Keystone XL … Continue reading