A Spirit-Being
He lurched towards me on a quiet street. “Sir, sir,” he said, “a red rose for your sweetheart.” He looked as though he lived nowhere, This man with wild hair and eyes deep as the Cumberland Mine. His...
View ArticleNotes on the Sacred
My hope is that people from different traditions can share with each other. These are dark times in which “fair is foul and foul is fair.” We need each other. I have learned something about the...
View ArticleA Hug
Two big guys at the Carnegie with long hair, denim pants and jackets. One guy goes up to the other and gives him a hug. They hold each other for a long minute. “Hey man, I needed that, “ one says....
View ArticleBeauty Brings The Gift of Hope
The Alhambra is an ancient Arab palace in Granada, Spain. I knew a little of the history of the palace, but nothing prepared me for the beauty of the intricately carved stone archway at the entrance....
View ArticleKeep Fighting, Friends
We keep fighting for a better world, and sometimes we get depressed. We don’t seem to be moving toward a more democratic society. In fact, our political and economic leaders preach the...
View ArticleWhat the Luddites can teach us
The Luddites were skilled workers in the English woolen industry around the years 1810 to 1814. New machines such as power looms and shearing frames were taking their jobs, and they demanded...
View ArticleLonging for Light
“Is there a light at the end of the tunnel?” a thoughtful person asked at a gathering of people telling Downtown Eastside stories. (1) How many times have we asked ourselves that question, “Is there a...
View ArticleNo Justice, No Dinner
On March 9, 1994, Jean Swanson and I traveled to Seattle, Washington to take part in a trilateral (United States, Canada, Mexico) demonstration against the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)....
View ArticleThe Year of Jubilee
Sheila Baxter has written a book on homelessness called Under the Viaduct that describes a society in which the accumulation of wealth has taken the place of compassion. Some of us are homeless...
View ArticleJustice and Beauty: Poems and Essays by Sandy Cameron
What follows is the contents of a little book of Sandy Cameron’s stories and poems that I put together recently. Preface When I would write something and ask Sandy to edit it, he would usually say...
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