The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Wednesday May 25th, 2022 – WHY? Gun control NOW!
Nineteen young children and two adults have died in a shooting at a primary school in south Texas. The gunman opened fire at Robb Elementary School – which teaches children aged seven to 10 – in the city of Uvalde before he was killed by law enforcement, officials said. The 18-year-old suspect had a handgun, an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle and high-capacity magazines, investigators say. The teenager is suspected of shooting his grandmother before the rampage.
“Do you want us to bring your children in?”. Signing false confessions. by Zulfikar Shariff
I came awake with the Gurkha officers around me. Chang was in the opposite chair. He told the officers to send me back to the cell.
“No, I’m ok. I’m ok” I told him. “We carry on.”
I was desperate. I had to get the interrogation period over as quickly as possible. Let’s get it done. Whatever they wanted me to say. Get it done, so I can get out of detention and to my children. I needed to tell them to leave Singapore.
That was all I thought about. Get my children and my family out of Singapore where the ISD could not get them.
“Send him back to cell” I heard Chang say again. “Next time don’t interrogate him after dinner.”
“I’m ok. Let’s carry on.” My body was weak.
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Saskatchewan Sky #poem by Michael Lee Johnson
“Saskatchewan
sky,
just a preview of love,
chip off
an edge of
prairie”
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: A bridge to the Spirit of the World by Rene Wadlow
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) whose birth anniversary we mark on 25 May, stressed the need for thinking and writing in an American style, separate from that of England which dominated American culture at that time – an early voice for “America First”. He called for a poetry “of insight and not of tradition”. Yet at the same time, he knew that the “Oversoul” – the ‘Thee’ for which Walt Whitman sang, transcended all frontiers.
Emerson was a leader of what is often called “American Transcendentalism ” – a vision of a cosmic force whose immanent nature courses its way upward through all creation toward its source. The Transcendentalists held that the sacred, which transcends the world but manifests itself in this world, thereby sanctifying it and making it real. God’s immanent presence in the creation is an ongoing process of progressive spiritual evolution. Walt Whitman that Emerson recognized as a intellectual and spiritual kin, gives these ideas a more poetic form. Evolutionary theory and democratic thought led Whitman to a new understanding of the divine-human relationship.
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Screws & Chips #032 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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