The author Julian Aguon with Hawaiian activist/artist Meleanna Meyer
Everyone Must Go
©2019 by Alice Walker
It is a great sadness that any American should be denied entry to Palestine, and particularly those, like Representatives Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, who wish to go in solidarity with the people, one of them a relative, a grandmother, not simply as tourists. Years ago, a… Continue reading
Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened. – Anatole France
You Died, And Then I Understood
Copyright © 2019 by Alice Walker
Charlie Larson Walker/June 17, 2019/3:15 AM
You died in my arms, and yes,
My heart felt crushed.
Another dog, much younger than you,
Was frisking about
As dogs do.
I was annoyed. How dare she live… Continue reading
Film Trailer [2:30 min]
RENEGADE: THE LIFE STORY OF DAVID ICKE, a #1 documentary film in England and climbing the charts in other countries. An example of perseverance over daunting odds from which we might draw strength.
Do we need strength? We do.
Beautifully directed by Stephen Peek and gracefully edited by Maria Demeshkina Peek. Music by Jake Hull.
Be Nobody’s… Continue reading
Más Pruebas: ¡Somos Quienes Hemos Estado Esperando!
More proof: We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For!
Sometime in the late 1980s or early 90s I was arrested for- I believe, not recalling specifics- insisting that the University of California divest holdings that supported the Apartheid state of South Africa. One joy in the event was being held in custody with the… Continue reading
I’LL SEE YOU WHEN YOUR TROUBLES GET LIKE MINE (Traditional Blues)
© 2019 by Alice Walker
for John Shipton
I’ll see you when your troubles
Get like mine… lord, lord,
I’ll see you when your troubles
Get like mine.
I was thinking about this song
While watching Julian Assange’s
Father
Being interviewed
By 60 Minutes Australia.
The woman interviewer
Wanted him to
Admit… Continue reading
READING “OUR NIG” (Or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black) DECADES LATER
Copyright 2019 by Alice Walker
Our Nig, the 1859 novel by Harriet E. Wilson, is the saddest book I have read. It was challenging to read as a young woman. Decades later, I find I must read it in fits and starts. Grief… Continue reading
A wish for you. -AW
China Lands on the Far Side of the Moon
Reading Evan Osnos: The Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China
©2019 by Alice Walker
When I visited China in 1983 women held up half the sky. … Continue reading
An Open Letter to Paris Jackson
Dear Daughter, Dear Paris, Dear Kindred,
Take a look at this:
Her lowest moment came in 1948, when a vindictive neighbor accused Hurston of sexual relations with her 10-year-old son. The charges were patently false — Hurston had been in Honduras at the time, and the boy was mentally unstable — but she… Continue reading
Medicine Art: The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
Copyright 2019©by Alice Walker
Medicine art has a way of showing up
just when you need it most.
And so it is with this great film
that lets us see man and woman
mother and father
children and teachers
a chief, and politicians,
as who they really are. Poor hopeless folks
in Africa… Continue reading