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Super Highway to War with Iraq
Posted by ceciliescott on 09/21/02, 9:48:18 AM Ever have that dream, where you're in a car and suddenly realize you have no brakes? Then you find the steering wheel doesn't respond. Problem is, it's not a dream. Stephen King horror pales before Bush & Company's race towards war with Iraq. We are being taken for a ride, and so far Congress shows no inclination to seize control. During the last presidential election Nader and the Green Party told us the Dems were no different from the Republicans. If Congress fails to stop the war against Iraq before it starts, the TweedleDum/TweedleDee claim will be all the more compelling. 
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The Return of Madame X
Posted by ceciliescott on 08/16/02, 10:06:23 AM Being Madame X is back on TurtleDreams. I'd taken it off in order to work on a print version for submittal. Mistake! It just plain didn't work without graphics and links. I hated the result. So I've revised it, adding more graphics, more links, and making better use of quotes that illustrate how this Sargent portrait, particularly its subject, has been pushing buttons ever since 1884.
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Bombing Afghanistan - Whose History?
Posted by ceciliescott on 10/21/01, 9:46:48 AM Histories have been traded and quoted in the last month - first in response to the attack on the WTC and Pentagon, then as we struggle to answer questions about reprisal, justice, and defense. Histories filled the editorial and letters columns of the online and offline press. 20th Century histories were reduced to sound bites on TV and talk radio and to slogans used by politicians - both aimed at replacing thought with instant certainties. Histories, yes. Clearly there is no single history. There are official histories, family histories, personal histories. Consider, for example, the differing histories taught to and experienced by a Palestinian refugee living in a camp in Gaza and a Jewish refugee from New York living in a settlement on the West Bank. I grew up on Leon Uris, on Kirk Douglas or Jeff Chandler playing the role of heroic fighter for a homeland for the Jews in Israel. My earliest memories of news photos are of those in Life magazine in 1945 - concentration camp survivors and mushroom clouds. Auschwitz and Hiroshima are forever and inextricably linked in my imagination. So my task has been to learn other histories. Here are a few Links that have helped me in this task. And Common Dreams is a good site for reading today's news from multiple perspectives - histories in the making. I'm still learning ... to live is to learn.
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Book List
Posted by ceciliescott on 08/18/01, 2:49:07 PM By Lora Lyn
Nancy also mentioned the impact it made on her reading when she discovered a young friend reading Les Miserables. The young girl told her, "The only trick to books like this is that it takes longer to read." When she heard this Nancy said, "It gave me license to read real books." Thank goodness! What would we do without 'real' books? If anyone wants to add to this list, please do. It's been a great way for all of us to get ideas about what we might like to read next.
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Poetry Daily
Posted by ceciliescott on 07/14/01, 9:36:59 AM While searching for Jane Hirshfield references on the web I came across Poetry Daily. A great website to start the day, with new poems posted frequently. (Daily posting, as with TurtleDreams, is a goal, not a promise.) In their Archive, a Louise Gl¸ck poem: Grace We were taught, in those years ...I printed out the last stanza and taped it to the wall behind my desk. Oh yes - I did find Jane Hirshfield's Red Berries, from Given Sugar, Given Salt. -cs
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