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by Lo
Editor, Dandelion Salad
May 7, 2023
Dandelion Salad is coming to an end. A big thanks to all the readers and writers over the almost 16 years of publishing on Dandelion Salad.
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Sent to DS by the author, David R. Yale
by Diane Donovan
Midwest Book Review Bookwatch, Aug. 10, 2022
April 3, 2023
The Real Paul Makinen?
By David R. Yale
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by Kenn Orphan
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Halifax, Nova Scotia
July 26, 2022
What is it about this photograph that is so intriguing? This is the Carina Nebula taken by the James Webb Telescope (NASA). We are looking at a nursery of stars, many far bigger than our own sun. And we are also looking back in time. Deep time. Yet there’s something intimate about it, even though there aren’t any pareidolic references for us to easily latch on to.
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with Chris Hedges
Originally on RT America on Feb 3, 2022
The Chris Hedges YouTube Channel on Jun 29, 2022
Chris Hedges discusses James Joyce’s Ulysses with Professor Sam Slote on the centennial of its publication.
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by Kenn Orphan
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Halifax, Nova Scotia
February 17, 2021
KO: I wanted to begin by disclosing that I had the great honour of working with Cheryl in hospice care as medical social workers and grief counselors for several years. Her compassion, intuitive empathy and healing manner taught me invaluable lessons on how to approach death and grief.
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with Chris Hedges
Depth Psychology Alliance on Sep 14, 2016
In this depth psychology oriented discussion powered by Pacifica Graduate Institute, Pulitzer Prize Winning Journalist Chris Hedges speaks with Depth Psychologist, Bonnie Bright, Ph.D, about how, as both individuals and civilizations, we encounter cycles of growth, maturation, decadence, and decay, and death.
by William T. Hathaway
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Germany
January 14, 2014
This photo of my parents reveals much about their personalities (hers vivacious and outgoing, his withdrawn and closed off), their relationship (little real contact), and also the times (could be captioned Gender Roles in the 1950s: The Bathing Beauty and the Soldier).
The typicality of their lives reveals much about the USA. My mother was a farmer’s daughter whose father lost the farm to the banks, and they had to scrabble along in the slums of the big city, St. Louis. All her life she yearned for her bucolic childhood when everything was “nice.” My father was a coal miner and the son of a coal miner from West Virginia. He hated the mines so much that after the Second World War he stayed in the military as a professional soldier.
Noam Chomsky interviewed by Michael Kasenbacher
New Left Project
December 24, 2012
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In this often personal interview, renowned linguist and political commentator Noam Chomsky outlines a libertarian perspective on work and education, arguing that freedom is the root of creativity and fulfilment.
The question I would like to ask is what is really wanted work? Maybe we could start with your personal life and your double career in linguistics and political activism? Do you like that kind of work?
by Mark A. Goldman
Guest Writer
Dandelion Salad
www.gpln.com
August 5, 2011
Thinking about happiness and unpleasantness
By Gary Corseri
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
March 29, 2011
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(for J.B.)
This one—tack-witted, sharp of tongue—
thinks he’ll die soon, and so,
smokes on (although he loves his wife).
He has made peace at 62 (my age)
with demons, destiny, and even
the C.O.P.D. that will
kick him in.
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By Gary Corseri
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
January 8, 2011
1.
Half of what I know, I do not know—
And half the time I don’t know
Which is which.
Truth is a bandit, Truth is a screech-owl
And the polar winds are howling.
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By Gary Corseri
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
September 12, 2010
Sometimes the grapes really are sour!
The wonder is … how you eat them!
At some point you convinced yourselves–
Wow! This is delicious!
You developed a taste for sour.
You ate lemons straight–the more sour, the better.
You puckered up for a kiss
And your lips were sour.
By Gary Corseri
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
September 12, 2010
Sir, how do you write a poem?
Simple, my boy.
I will tell you. …
Set up a sturdy blackboard,
And scratch your nails across it.
Take your sharpened nails
And carve a hundred niches
Into your arms and thighs,
Into your chest and belly.
By Gary Corseri
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
September 12, 2010
“Why should I worry about posterity? What has posterity ever done for me?”
–Groucho Marx
The Sun is blazing, blazing, blazing.
A thread of the Sun pulls me along.
(I cannot say “forward.”
Like everyone, I’ve lost my sense of direction.)
by Chris Hedges
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
Truthdig
July 5, 2010
Earl Shaffer, adrift after serving in the South Pacific in World War II and struggling with the loss of his childhood friend Walter Winemiller during the assault on Iwo Jima, made his way to Mount Oglethorpe in Georgia in 1947. He headed north toward Mount Katahdin in Maine and for the next 124 days, averaging 16.5 miles a day, beat back the demons of war. His goal, he said, was to ‘‘walk the Army out of my system.’’ He was the first person to hike the full length of the Appalachian Trail.
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