Dedicated to twelve students attending Napa Valley College who I haven’t met yet… and to Alice Walker and Jacqueline Domac.

This is by way of gently introducing the idea that we all have a social/environmental responsibility as citizens and artists to support work which aims at addressing the major issues of our day to some degree.

See me as Tir na nOg, please.

I beg all those readers who are victims of apathy, cynicism, ignorance, resignation and atomization to invite me to a rendezvous at the earliest possible convenience.

Here’s to no more moving at an arthritic snail’s pace! How ’bout a New Year’s toast to acknowledging deadlines which really do exist. As much as we are alive.

It is no time — there is no time — to greet the turbulence in our social and economic life as an occasion to seek refuge in the interiority of the psyche or the home.

I can provide the necessary shock. But — first — you must acknowledge with me what the 99% is obviously not.

Approaching the Cuban Five and a lot more from a different angle….

It is no sacrifice to work 24×7… with only something like 5 years left… for us all.

Coffee, tea, milk or organic juice of your choice….