Sharing My Love of Shamanic Huichol Art
The name of the shaman/ creator of this art – partly depicting animals responding to earthquake – is on the back of this “painting,” that is too heavy for me to take…
How is it the whole world cannot stop evil?
Nir Hason Haaretz Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya is now in immediate life-threatening danger. We knew this moment was coming but it does not make it any easier. Nir Hasson of Haaretz הארץ reports:…
The Polygamist
Saving Menzie, in The Polygamist, a story/series on Netflix. Book by Sue Nyathi It is perhaps ironic that after much rumination about the indelible Netflix production “The Polygamist” in which three, maybe four,…
Mother Earth Teaching by Wendsler Nosie Sr – Apache
Exactly. ~aw Interview: Wendsler Nosie Sr – Apache, San Carlos Arizona @wisdom.keepers
Whom Does the Grail Serve? AI and the Loss of Us
The AI future for humanity and for nature looks more than bleak. Terrifying, actually. It will feel liberating not to be here for its flowering. This talk offers a deeply human response to…
To the Cuban Reader
To the Cuban Reader ©2014 by Alice Walker Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart is my seventh novel, and, unless I am mistaken, it is my last. I wrote it toward…
Our Wandering Lives: Thoughts About The Color Purple
Our Wandering Lives: Thoughts About The Color Purple ©2017 by Alice Walker My most free-spirited niece, who was born in Boston, thanked me recently for writing The Color Purple. She said it gave…
Thank You For Your Book
Alice Walker August 12, 2005 Karla Simcikova Mongolska 1427/14 70800 Ostrava –Poruba Czech Republic Dear Karla Simcikova: At first I thought your name was difficult to pronounce, because it was unfamiliar…
Missed Opportunities: From the Archive
Recently I Wrote a Letter ©2012 by Alice Walker Recently I wrote a letter to Yediot publishers in Israel declining an offer they’d made to publish my novel The Color Purple. Though…
Who was Paule Marshall
June Who was Paule Marshall? A fierce, determined, daughter of immigrants from “the islands;” a writer of novels that explore worlds previously unknown, not even guessed at, by this Southerner. We met,…
Happy Birthday, Robert Allen, May 29th
Happy Birthday, Robert Allen, May 29th. Thank you for editing The Black Scholar all those years; for helping to build housing in Cuba, and encouraging me to visit; for writing amazing books about…
