This blog started out to be a simple feature about an amazing speech that Martin Prechtel documented in one of his autobiographical books. The speech was made directly to him (Prechtel) by a spiritual advisor and mentor (A Sisay) in the Guatemalan village where Prechtel learned how to be a shaman and, by his own […]
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I originally wrote this as an appendix to my blog about my maternal grandparents emigration to the U.S. from Belarus in 1920, BELARUS to U.S.: 1920-2020, a family story. But now that I’ve updated—perhaps finalized—my Real Democracy webpage I think it useful to have My American Dream as a stand-alone blog. This is especially true as my […]
I had not thought to write anything about the late Supreme Court Justice, Ruth Bader Ginsburg. For one thing, I have never seen any of the films about or interviews with her. By the time she became a feminist icon, I had long stopped going to the movies and I had never been a TV-watcher. […]
In my June 14, 2019 blog on Presidential Politics + Food & Farm Justice, I quoted journalist John Nichols extensively about how the appointment of a U.S. Secretary of Agriculture was, for Trump, “an afterthought” (see Nichols’s book on all Trump’s cabinet appointments, Horsemen of the Trumpocalypse). In fact Sonny Perdue was the last cabinet appointment that Trump […]
Trista Hendren runs a publishing house for original work by women for women who celebrate the divine feminine—and who share practical ways to live that life. I believe that her enterprise started with a children’s picture book, The Girl God. Hence, the company and website name: The Girl God. I enjoy Trista’s semi-regular newsletters (3-4 times […]
Short-term, part-time job for someone who knows Illinois counties from a food & farm perspective.Involves site visits.Deadline to apply is Sept. 9, 2020. Part of a larger project:“Regeneration Midwest: Scaling up climate and health solutions in agricultural communities across twelve U.S. states” See PDF with details: RMW Job posting 9.4.20
According to our family history, September 1, 2020, was the 100th anniversary of my maternal grandparents’ arrival in Quebec, by boat, from Belarus. Because of the anti-Jewish pogroms, my grandmother, Rochel Chepelevsky, and grandfather, Moshe Eisenstadt, had been quickly married in Slonim (150 miles SW of Minsk) so that they could get out of town. […]
For decades of presidential cabinet appointments, the Secretary of Agriculture has often been one of the last, almost as an afterthought. I would say that August 2020 is not too soon to start thinking about who our next USDA Secretary will or should be—and not too soon to get some names out to the public, […]