July 28, 2025 I recently came across a Facebook site and web page called "We Choose Welcome" https://www.wechoosewelcome.com/. This group created itself in the face of hostilities and draconian procedures being carried out by the Trump Administration in relation to our immigration situation. Today, a poem was posted that moved me to tears because ofContinue reading "Resistance and Resilience: I’m Sorry, too"
Resistance and Resilience: Photography
Botanical Garden Iris (c) Ellen Hudson July 25, 2025 As of this particular date, July 25, 2025, 47,000 people per month are being deported by the Trump Administration (re: Rep. Dale Strong/Alabama)while 1,000 are caged in Alligator Alcatraz, an inhumane concentration camp in the swamplands of Florida. So much for due process. Our own presidentContinue reading "Resistance and Resilience: Photography"
Resistance and Resilience: Words
July 14, 2025 Recently, a follower of this blog sent me an essay written by Phyllis Cole-Dai (The Raft on Substack) who wrote: “According to The New York Times, the current US administration has now restricted or outright banned the use of hundreds of words and phrases in government documents ranging from agency memos toContinue reading "Resistance and Resilience: Words"
Resisting and Resilience: Rootedness
July 1, 2025 In honor of Canada Day and in deep regard for our neighbors to the north of the USA, I am pleased to post a poem by Canadian poet and photographer Monique Heintzman. Today seems a particularly fitting day for this poem after our Senate has just approved (by one vote) a billContinue reading "Resisting and Resilience: Rootedness"
Resistance and Resilience: Dragon Princess
June 19, 2025 This current blog continues to explore the themes of resistance and resilience in the arts, especially in the context of the current upheavals across the globe and in the USA. Recent contributions may be found at https://spirit-reflections.org/blog/ under "Writings." This poem is a response to E. Reid's poem from May 27 whichContinue reading "Resistance and Resilience: Dragon Princess"
Resistance and Resilience: Plowshare Prayer
June 9, 2025 All art is a form of resistance. We are living in a multi-chaotic world where all sorts of actions call for resistance: abuse of power, authoritarianism, bigotry, fascism, poverty, racism, nationalism, sexism, etc. I would add that all art is also a form of resilience when we ground ourselves in creating, inContinue reading "Resistance and Resilience: Plowshare Prayer"
Resistance and Resilience: Love
June 2, 2025 Art in any form is resistance. This blog is an invitation to submit any works of art that speak to resistance against the injustices of these current times and to resilience that keeps us grounded in hope, truth, and love. Former submissions can be found here under "Writings" : https://spirit-reflections.org/. Today's submissionContinue reading "Resistance and Resilience: Love"
Resistance and Resilience: Grow
(c) Photo by Teresa Culbert May 30, 2025 As a poet and novelist, I'm fortunate to meet regularly with a group of diverse creatives: a poet/photographer, a poet/photographer/musician, a prose writer/poet, a watercolor artist, and a quilter. Most of us have never met personally, our group a blessing that grew out of Covid 19 andContinue reading "Resistance and Resilience: Grow"
Response to “Liberty”
May 27, 2025 As those who follow this blog know, the theme has shifted to how the creative arts can guide and ground us during these turbulent times around the world, but especially in regard to the current administration in the United States. Resistance and Resilience are the key guidelines. Over the weekend, I postedContinue reading "Response to “Liberty”"
Resistance and Resilience: Liberty
May 24, 2025 On this Memorial Day Weekend in the United States, we remember and honor those countless men and women who gave their lives for our freedom and who fought to safeguard our democracy throughout our unfortunate history of war. With those freedoms and our democracy being threatened this very day, I am pleasedContinue reading "Resistance and Resilience: Liberty"
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