PS

Saturday evening's reading at Studio 26 Gallery in NYC was a fulfilling event. Rachel E. Diken gave a stunning debut reading of her poetry that had an obvious impact on the standing-room-only crowd, and I received a warm reception as well for poetry and prose I'd published over the past half century about my Civil Rights and racial justice activism since the 1950s, and anti-war, feminist, and gay rights activism since the 1960s, hopefully reminding people that the struggle for justice-for-all has been ongoing and peaks and wanes but has never been fully stopped or disappeared...

You may have noticed that I've been focusing on the various arts that sustain me and my spirit more in my posts since the inauguration of "the predator-in-chief" (as he has become known to many), because in order to maintain my strength—intellectually, spiritually, and emotionally—so I can take part in what we used to call "The Movement" in the 1960s and '70s and now is called "The Resistance" I need constant creative arts breaks, which is why on my car radio I'm listening to either my public jazz station or classical music station rather than NPR and other news stations constantly, to give my brain and heart a chance to re-energize....I recommend it...