by Babette Deutsch Silence with you is like the faint delicious Smile of a child asleep, in dreams unguessed: Only the hinted wonder of its dreaming,  The soft, slow-breathing miracle of rest.  Silence with you is like a kind departure From iron clangor and the engulfing crowd Into a wide and greenly barren meadow,  Under … Continue reading Silence

We all have human rights. That means we also have responsibilities. The right to a private life is also the obligation to respect the privacy of others. The right to freedom of expression and thought is also the obligation to be generous and make space for others to be heard. The right to be treated … Continue reading Rights

BY ERIKA L. SÁNCHEZ According to a report from the University of San Diego’s Justice in Mexico project, 138,000 people have been murdered in Mexico since 2006. They call it the corner of heaven: a laboratory, a foot at the throat of an empire. Before the holy dirt, the woman with the feline gait waits … Continue reading Kingdom of Debt

Peace is more than just the absence of war. Peace requires respect for the worth and dignity of our fellow human beings, tolerance among individuals and harmony within each person. It also requires global justice in place of global inequities, not least the elimination of hunger and thirst in a world of produces plenty. Article … Continue reading Peace

On the birthday of the world I begin to contemplate what I have done and left undone, but this year not so much rebuilding of my perennially damaged psyche, shoring up eroding friendships, digging out stumps of old resentments that refuse to rot on their own. No, this year I want to call myself to … Continue reading The birthday of the world