The Leveret

Friday, March 28, 2025

Torso

Torso (TOR-soh): The main part of the body that contains the chest, abdomen, pelvis, and back. Most of the body's organs and the backbone are found in the torso. Also called trunk.

Images: Subjects/photographers unknown.

Thursday, March 20, 2025

Master of the Field

Artwork: Mark Langley.

See also the previous posts:
• Call Him Hare King
• A Still Moment
• Souls Alike
• Standing Hare
• Be Silent and Lsten
• Hares and Fieldfares
• Meadow Doorway
• Harvest Moon

Saturday, March 8, 2025

Bel Homme

Image: Subject and photographer unknown.

See also the previous posts:
• “It Is Time to Rewild”
• The Beauty of Nature
• Thomas Moore on the Circling of Nature as the Best Way to Find Our Substance
• The Divine Masculine Principle
• “We Are Still Mythical”
• I Call to Cernunnos

Friday, February 28, 2025

The People’s Union USA is a grassroots movement dedicated to economic resistance, government accountability, and corporate reform.

Founded by John Schwarz, the People’s Union is not a political party, but a movement for all people, regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, or political affiliation. The goal of the People’s Union is to unite Americans against the corruption and greed that has kept everyday citizens struggling for decades.

In response to the plutocratic coup currently underway in the United States, the People’s Union is calling citizens to participate in an “economic blackout.”

Following is author, lawyer, and political commentator Robert Reich’s thoughts on today’s economic blackout.

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Friends,

A grassroots movement is calling on all Americans to abstain from shopping with major retailers – including Amazon – [today], February 28, as part of an “economic blackout.”

The purpose is to send a clear message: We have the power. We don’t have to accept corporate monopolies. We don’t have to live with corporate money corrupting our politics.

We don’t have to accept more tax cuts for billionaires. We don’t have to pay more of our hard-earned cash to Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos or Mark Zuckerberg or the other billionaire oligarchs.

We don’t have to reward corporations that have abandoned their DEI policies to align themselves with Trump’s racist, homophobic, misogynistic agenda.

We have choices.

Most Americans are struggling to keep up. Most live from paycheck to paycheck. Most can barely afford housing costs, food prices, and pharmaceuticals – kept high by monopolies, and fueled by private equity.

If politicians won’t hear the voices of average Americans who are being shafted by corporate America, we have to deliver our message to corporate America directly.

From midnight tonight to midnight Friday night, please: No Amazon, no Walmart, no Best Buy, no Target, no Disney, no Google, no Facebook. Don’t spend on fast food, major retailers, or gas.

Avoid using credit or debit cards to make nonessential purchases.

Buy essentials such as medicine, food, and emergency supplies, of course, but make those purchases at small, local businesses.

Consider this a test run. If lots of people participate, I’m sure a longer one will be organized.

[Today’s] economic blackout is an initiative of The People’s Union USA, which describes itself as a “grassroots movement dedicated to economic resistance, government accountability, and corporate reform.”

I hope you'll join.

– Robert Reich
via social media
February 27, 2025

Saturday, February 8, 2025

On Your Shore

Strange how my heart beats
To find myself upon your shore
Strange how I still feel
My loss of comfort gone before

Cool waves wash over
And drift away with dreams of youth
So time is stolen
I cannot hold you long enough

And so this is where I should be now
Days and nights falling by
Days and nights falling by me
I know of a dream I should be holding
Days and nights falling by
Days and nights falling by me

. . . Strange how I falter
To find I’m standing in deep water
Strange how my heart beats
To find I’m standing on your shore