Gabby Giffords and the Gun Lobby

From yesterday’s NY Times Op Ed page: A Senate in the Gun Lobby’s Grip By GABRIELLE GIFFORDS SENATORS say they fear the N.R.A. and the gun lobby. But I think that fear must be nothing compared to the fear the first graders in Sandy Hook Elementary School felt as their lives ended in a hail of bullets. The … Read more

Today

Smile today. Love life. Embrace all, love it, knowing it is all fleeting. Eat. Sing. Sing old songs, new songs. Songs to spring. Draw a magnolia! Anything that threatens to kill you, smile it away. Buy flowers. Read Neruda. Read Whitman. Read Krishnamurti. Laugh at the silliness of life. Rejoice in the victories. Rejoice in … Read more