This poetic image depicts the woman who was the model for the beautiful Mrs. Ramsay in "To the Lighthouse", Virginia Woolf's great novel of 1927.| Vox Populi
Divinity must live within herself: Passions of rain, or moods in falling snow; Grievings in loneliness, or unsubdued Elations when the forest blooms; gusty Emotions on wet roads on autumn nights| Vox Populi
Enough already! My sister says.. I can’t bear to watch you anymore. I know she’s right. But I can’t stop. I mean where would I put my sorrow?| Vox Populi
Interweaving fiction with documentary testimony of sugar babies and sex workers, Side Hustle follows a young dancer making rent with the financial support of her sugar daddy.| Vox Populi
In the distance our great leader Crowed like a rooster from a balcony, Or was it a great actor Impersonating our great leader?| Vox Populi
He ate what would kill a man in the normal course of his life: leather buttons, cloth caps, anything small enough to get into his mouth. He ate roots. He ate newspaper.| Vox Populi
Donald Trump’s gleeful response to the show’s cancellation, and his suggestion that others will be “next up,” shows just how seriously some political figures take comedic critique.| Vox Populi
The Trump administration is setting the stage for election subversion. This power play poses a grave threat to the future of U.S. election infrastructure. It is also, in many respects, illegal.| Vox Populi
Bad Dog licks killers’ bloody hands, leaps with joy for rapists, fawns at politicians’ crooked feet. “He’s an awful judge of character,” the owner tells kind-hearted strangers who scuttle past…| Vox Populi
When those who seek to help resolve a conflict are captive to one side’s definitions and perspective, it’s a recipe for continued tension and ultimately disaster.| Vox Populi
…when Margaret Thatcher took voice- lowering lessons, she was told to speak as if she had a penis and a cold.| Vox Populi
More than offering an escape, fantasy worlds can also show what courage looks like when the odds are stacked against you.| Vox Populi
I don’t want to be back in love with Erica, driving to some quaint upstate town, windows down, in complete control of the tape deck and we’re both singing along as loud and as off key as we please…| Vox Populi
If Mark Twain were alive today, he would certainly have written a novel about Donald Trump. After all, his 1873 novel, The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today, distinctly caught a nineteenth-century versio…| Vox Populi
The Trump administration revives institutionalized torture.| Vox Populi
Always that moment when I wake up in the dark before dawn and the first birds| Vox Populi
Smyrna, Delaware—Bald eagles descended to pose on the banks and boulders on the mudflats. Shorebirds bobbed in shallow pools. Great blue herons, great egrets, and snowy egrets snapped up fish along…| Vox Populi
We are still ripening into our bodies, still in the act of becoming. Rejoice in the day’s long sugar. Praise that big fat tomato of a sun.| Vox Populi
Poetry is the remembrance and avowal of loss and is accordingly pushed aside.| Vox Populi
I am writing not to send you light, but to let you know you are not alone in the darkness. I am here, too, scribbling with no sight, no certainty| Vox Populi
you cannot separate the job from the house from the rent from the earth from the food from the healthcare from the water from the transit from the war from the schools from the prisons from the war…| Vox Populi
“It was a massacre,” said one witness, adding that Israeli troops continued firing on people as they fled.| Vox Populi
I tell my wife about the young woman who covered herself in leaves under a tree, did not move, and barely breathed for hours. I tell her about the girl who escaped.| Vox Populi
A new framework for planetary health reveals that our Industrial Age mindset—not human needs—is the real driver of environmental collapse.| Vox Populi
Let us be like my friend Rick’s grandma, who Rick remembers trotting alongside the car as his dad drove him and his brother down the long driveway from her house, tapping on a window until one of t…| Vox Populi
The results could be catastrophic, especially in states that have experienced unprecedented fires in recent years.| Vox Populi
as the late noise of traffic, of shrill birdsong, dies away, do I always recall those brief summers, when the old folks reclined in the grass on the hill| Vox Populi
I wouldn’t call you back—not to a body that would be unable to walk the mountains freely. Even though I miss you— even though the hole you left in me is vast—please— trust me.| Vox Populi
The foreman led me into a cavernous room that took up most of the ground floor, where three huge machines unspooled 16-ton rolls of tin plate into sheets to be turned into cans. The machines resemb…| Vox Populi
The Good and the Bad in Media Coverage Now| Vox Populi
“Imagine if federal worker unions and Democratic Party officials showed up at the plant gate of a company that was about to close its doors,” said one labor advocate. “Why aren…| Vox Populi
The Pernicious Price of Global Reach, Global Power, and Global Dominance| Vox Populi
Performed by Wienananda, a group of Sahaja yogis in Vienna.| Vox Populi
