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Video: Amid crime and blight, Natalie Thomas plants peace and community

Posted on October 21, 2017 by randomyriad

Originally posted on Vox Populi:
. Since 2011, Natalie Thomas has been the caretaker of the Unified Positive Effect Community Garden at the corner of Climax Street and Estella Avenue in the Betzhoover neighborhood of Pittsburgh. Thomas, 57, said the…

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Drums of Passion

Posted on October 16, 2017 by randomyriad

At some point in my late teenage years, I was looking through a bin of miscellaneous foreign music in the Tower Records store on Broadway in Sacramento, and I came across this album. I don’t remember what about it caught … Continue reading →

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An August Morning in Bandon, Ore

Posted on September 6, 2017 by randomyriad

The usual chill breeze did not blow in until after noon.

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Painted Rocks Traveling North

Posted on September 4, 2017 by randomyriad

We were walking in downtown Bandon, Ore on Saturday 8/19, and I found a rock painted like a strawberry and camouflaged on a fire hydrant when I turned it over I saw #WCPR painted on the back. I put that … Continue reading →

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Video: Martín Espada reads “Imagine the Angels of Bread”

Posted on April 29, 2017 by randomyriad

Maybe not this year, but sometime soon. Let’s make it so. Or as close to this as possible.

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