Imagination: The Prophetic Act of Living an Alternative Narrative, Poetry for Building Community, Reader, Significance Of Place “Wholly Earth” Mrs. Lincoln was known throughout her career for sticking close to social themes in her music. As a songwriter and performer, she always had something to say. This unforgettable track…
Leaving Egypt and Pharaoh, Reader, Significance Of Place Decolonizing Our Cities, Reclaiming Our Streets We won’t build livable, connected neighborhoods using extractive, colonizing means. Architect and activist Mark Lakeman, in this podcast, offers some deep thinking on decolonizing our cities, and moving from extractive…
Reader, Sabbath: Time for the Unexpected, Significance Of Place, Structure Of Belonging Jeff Gold on the Paradisical Jazz Club One underrated quality of the jazz scene in the 1940s and 50s was its racial integration. Music does that – it draws people together into common spaces. That it no…
Possibly: Freedom for A New Story, Reader, Significance Of Place The City Where Jazz Is Love One of the brilliant musicians in the jazz tradition who often goes overlooked is the pianist Mary Lou Williams. Williams (1910-1981) put together a long career that saw her writing…
Eliminating economic isolation, Imagination: The Prophetic Act of Living an Alternative Narrative, Reader, Significance Of Place Spurred by Tragedy to a Life of Female Empowerment Yesterday marked the anniversary of the start of Greta Thunberg's climate protest, a day when the world once again noticed the perilous state of our environment. People all over the…
