Here is more on the 54th Regiment: African Americans led by Shaw fighting on the Union side. Also an image of the the plaque Lowell refers to. If you haven't seen this in person, be sure to visit it...

1925 Jeffers published this--before the Depression, before Joseph McCarthy, before the Vietnam War, before 1968, before Nixon, before shock and awe! I would like to take some sadly smiling comfort in...

"Right now we need . . . truth sayers"!
Thank you for introducing me to this performance poet new to me.

Yes, today I'm mute sand, apprehensive sand, waiting for the frail foam to drop, and most unfortunately I can see no castles in my foreseeable future. Today I'll be sand.

Poets and Nature--my priests and chapel--offer the respite of beauty, grace, peace, & freedom
(from despair, grief, fear, the ugliness in the human news)-"-For a time." (And these small periods of...

Wow. Robinson Jeffers got it! No point in being ANGRY with the sun for setting, etc., etc. Maybe sad and regretful. Not angry.
Thanks, Larry.
Janet

"We come in the age's most uncertain hour and sing an American tune"--Yes.
Thank you, Larry. And thank you, Paul Simon.

What rough beast, indeed. But not slouching, strutting.

This is the LETTER TO THE EDITOR in YESTERDAY'S PD


FROM THE DAUGHTER OF THE LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT WHO HAD THE REDWOODS PLANTED<section class="article-text" style="clear: both; color: rgb(0, 0,...

I second that!
Janet

And here are Jason Nutt's responses (in purple) to Richard Canini's questions. After Canini sent the questions, Mr. Nutt took 2 months to respond, sending his responses 5 days after the city began...

MORE FODDER FOR OPPOSITION


Following is a summary of points fully detailed and substantiated elsewhere by civil engineer Richard Canini. He sent a similar version to City Council:

A. Santa...

I'm with you, diaba! Today in Kinko's I saw this flyer (which I suspect was made by Norma)--which tells us the month and year each council member next comes up for a vote. I kept a copy and will now...

Re: Edenman's call to occupy Courthouse Square


TOMORROW, SATURDAY, 1:00, MEET AT COURTHOUSE SQUARE

to OCCUPY/ RALLY/ PROTEST

THIS SICKENING TRAVESTY

AGAINST THE PEOPLE'S TREES

Important Addendum:

In my exhaustion, I neglected to say that I was getting phone instructions from Jennifer about taking those uncharacteristically assertive actions and calls of moral support...

At 8 am yesterday/Wednesday morning in a cold wind promising rain, one other protester and I arrived at Courthouse Square. The other protester had an emergency situation at work and soon had to...

Jennifer, My Nextdoor.com site prohibits postings of a "political" nature. I don't know about others.
Sorry, Janet

Thank you for your sharp eye & observations, Jennifer.

And don't forget this, everyone. Those 5-8 majestic Redwoods are being sacrificed to make room to construct and pave streets and parking...

A bunch of us were at the Santa Rosa Square all [tuesday] morning, including a young woman (and small business owner) who has hired a very good lawyer to contest the cutting, and a young man who is...

THE TREECUTTERS ARE AT THE SQUARE. PLEASE COME TO THE SQUARE.

(This is according to an e-mail I just got from someone in our group 11 minutes ago. I'm writing at 9:37am, Tuesday.)

Janet

We NEED your help, and we need it right away!


Did you e-mail and/or speak to the Santa Rosa City Council in opposition to aspects of the Courthouse Square project before their disastrous vote...

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No, Sara, that's not the way I meant it or the way it was always translated in...

Dies irae, Dies illa

[translation: "Day of wrath and doom impending."]

PLEASE DON'T GIVE UP

As far as I know, we still have two ways to have our voices heard:

1) Send a compelling e-mail to city council: [email protected] (all city council members). ...

BRIEF REPORT ON COURTHOUSE SQUARE RALLY


The weather cooperated! And many many people of all ages showed up at the SAVE THE TREES rally this afternoon at Santa Rosa Courthouse Square. At its...

SOMETHING ELSE WE CAN DO TO TRY TO STOP THIS!

I'm thinking how much impact we could have it we bombarded the PD with compelling letters to the editor in the few days--so many letters that they...

34366As I've never been to a City Council meeting before--and I've certainly never spoken at such a meeting before, it's hard for me to judge. But I think there was a pretty decent...

KEEPING THE PRESSURE ON!

COME TO TOMORROW'S SR CITY COUNCIL MEETING


SR City Council meets only twice before they approve this plan: TOMORROW, Tuesday, the 19th, & next week Tuesday, the 26th...

A TIME CHANGE!
For those who plan to pack the next (and last?!) Santa Rosa City Council meeting on the Courthouse Square issue, I just checked the website for the agenda...

URGENT ACTION PLAN

Save the Heritage Trees (and more) in Santa Rosa's
Old Courthouse Square


Santa Rosa City Council has planned a project, behind closed doors, to reunify Old Courthouse...

We don't have much time, and we need to keep the pressure up. The chainsaws are scheduled for Feb.1st at the latest.

According to the City’s website, the City Council is expected to see and...

Thanks, Barry, for the PD story on yesterday's hearing.

It appears that the tree removal is scheduled for Feb.3 (not Jan. 27), but so far the date remains a mystery. Again, I'll post when I have...

I attended the public hearing this morning. The room was packed to overflowing with citizens who've just learned about this and were outraged--especially about the plan to remove 91 of the 128 trees...

I've seen that possum! And his excommunication document with my name on it! But it wouldn't have reached my conscious awareness without your original vision, Billy Collins. Thank you, Larry R. and...

Just listen to those veggies HOWL!
Janet

Oh! Such wisdom, its images & narratives so strong they might actually stick, for once.
If We Knew. (If we remembered.) Thank you, Larry. Janet

Hear how the poet, the real poet, so full/ of longing for the world, gives the world shape and sound, through the labor of love. Thank you, Mark Doty--and Larry. Janet

This one is just pure fun--all the wordplay and luscious echoing sounds (without getting all / sociological about it, which I'd rather not, too). Thanks, Larry. Janet

Oh, YES, thank you for this, Larry--one of my favorites of all time--surely one of the greatest, loveliest poems of all time. Janet

Oh, no, I certainly don't EXPECT rides from anyone, and MOST people here have been more than kind in offering a ride when they know that I can't get somewhere by foot, bike,or bus. And I always help...

Here's my second! Please, an opinion piece in the Bohemian and PD, Rustie. And I'd love to see you go back to your original alternative proposal--several small (electric, was it?) shuttle buses to...

OK, I'm going to weigh in for the first time. I just moved to Santa Rosa from Boston, and I love it here (especially the kinder, gentler culture). I also knew there would be some adjustments. What I...