Autumn Poetry

Words for Wednesday

Abhijit Naskar

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A Prayer for Mabon.

(I love these; she publishes them each season. They seem powerful.)

This Is a Prayer for Mabon. This Is a Prayer for Resistance.

Clark State security finds suspicious package on campus, rules out threat

(I clicked on a Springfield New-Sun article the other day; they let you read everything if you start an account or register or whatever; email address, user name, and a password. Anyway, it’s a very polite paper, and the work, so far as I’ve seen, is exemplary. If you click through to the page, take a look at their headlines to see how things are going in Springfield, thanks to the Republican ticket. Some of it is good news for residents; there is balance.)

News By Brooke Spurlock 3 hours ago

Clark State is investigating after officials found a suspicious package this morning on the College’s Springfield campus.

The college’s security found the package around 8 a.m. on the Leffel Lane campus and immediately contacted police, according to a statement on the college’s website.

“Police responded quickly and determined that the package was not of concern and no threat exists,” the statement said.

Administrators and police searched the buildings and campus before the Springfield Police Division said the campus was safe at 11:12 a.m.

Clark State closed all of its campuses this week and moved to remote classes through Friday as a result of two email threats of a potential bombing and shooting from last weekend.

https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/news/clark-state-security-finds-suspicious-package-on-campus-rules-out-threat/4Z2NNWTAZRDS7MS4L7EUN76AFA/#

Last Kiss Presents-

I’m pretty sure it’s no secret, nor a surprise, that I read comics (considering I post several here.) I started reading Last Kiss on GoComics, and one day I had a little time so I went to the artist/author’s page, then went to his blog. I signed up for emails, even, though I read at GoComics most days in the week. Anyway, this one was in yesterday’s email. I thought of getting it and posting it, but I’m a little crunched with writing the GOTV postcards, and I didn’t get it done. I read the email again today, and decided Scottie’s is a good place for this one. I think everyone would enjoy these; they’re quirky but I haven’t seen a rude one yet.

https://www.lastkisscomics.com/

A Bit of Beauty

https://naskarism.wordpress.com/2024/09/15/naskar-2024-legacy-continues/?page_id=8583

Linda Ronstadt, Stevie Nicks, and Carole King speak out against Trump. The trifecta!

Robyn Pennacchia Sep 13, 2024

Linda Ronstadt: Not *Just* The Inspiration For Every Haircut I’ve Ever Had, But For Other Things As Well! by Rebecca Schoenkopf Read on Substack

In case you didn’t hear the good news yesterday — Linda Ronstadt is not very happy about Donald Trump holding a rally last night at a (2200-person capacity) building named for her in Tucson, Arizona! She is so unhappy about it, in fact, that she wrote a letter forcefully denouncing him and officially endorsing Kamala Harris. This is actually a pretty big deal for a few reasons. One, she hasn’t been in the public eye much in recent years, and two that her endorsement could possibly sway some fence-sitting Baby Boomers.

I mean, I love Linda Ronstadt, she is an icon and a musical/sartorial inspiration to me, but I don’t think I love Linda Ronstadt in quite the same way that men of a certain age love Linda Ronstadt. This is a tendency I have been made especially privy to, as a lady who some people think looks somewhat like Linda Ronstadt. (To be fair, I have had most of her haircuts at this point.)

She wrote:

Donald Trump is holding a rally on Thursday in a rented hall in my hometown, Tucson. I would prefer to ignore that sad fact. But since the building has my name on it, I need to say something.

It saddens me to see the former President bring his hate show to Tucson, a town with deep Mexican-American roots and a joyful, tolerant spirit.

I don’t just deplore his toxic politics, his hatred of women, immigrants and people of color, his criminality, dishonesty and ignorance — although there’s that.

For me it comes down to this: In Nogales and across the southern border, the Trump Administration systematically ripped apart migrant families seeking asylum. Family separation made orphans of thousands of little children and babies, and brutalized their desperate mothers and fathers. It remains a humanitarian catastrophe that Physicians for Human Rights said met the criteria for torture.

There is no forgiving or forgetting the heartbreak he caused.

Trump first ran for President warning about rapists coming in from Mexico. I’m worried about keeping the rapist out of the White House.

Linda Ronstadt

P.S. to J.D. Vance:

I raised two adopted children in Tucson as a single mom. They are both grown and living in their own houses. I live with a cat. Am I half a childless cat lady because I’m unmarried and didn’t give birth to my kids? Call me what you want, but this cat lady will be voting proudly in November for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz.

Ronstadt can’t sing anymore due to Parkinson’s (I cannot think too much about this or I will cry), but clearly she is still able to make her voice heard. (AW) (Snip-Much MORE, with music videos, too!)