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POEM: The Backwards Geese (from the gate outside South Egremont School)

as if time could run backwards at their beckoning; as if winter could recede from my fingers and the white gate swing wide, with the fall riot returning to the bracketing treelimbs, thence to turn verdant and alive, the schoolyard now summer-empty.

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BRIGHT SPOTS: Week of June 18, 2025

Journalists are reporting on the constant chaos, but they are not featuring the Congresspeople who are speaking up. Here are a few; there are many more.

LEONARD QUART: My time in America

My being at odds with dominant American values in Ohio gave me a clarity that living amid New York's many complex subcultures had not.

CONNECTIONS: Bring back civics

If civics is dead, if the civility that underpins it and the citizenship that insists upon it are dead, then democracy is dead.

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