The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Sunday July 10th, 2022
The Sea #ShortStory #Fiction by Abigail George
Yes, two writers, and a poet, Emily, a poet half-formed by the sea. My father is one of the Washington-lucky ones. This is a story about a man but not about any man. It is a story about my father. Fathers are special people. Mostly they encourage you. You tell them about your list of goals and in return, they inspire you to fulfil them.
They are the ones standing on the side-lines. They are the ones who give you that standing ovation. They are the ones who mouth the words ‘I love you’ and ‘I think that you are brilliant’ when you feel like you did not do as brilliant as you should have. They are the first ones you go to when you feel sad or when you are happy.
All my life that is what my father did. He was not all of those things all of the time. Sometimes he was sad and as a child, it made me feel very angry and confused when daddy cried or was upset. Now, I imagine him as a young adult as a hunter. A lonely warrior whose head was bursting out of his skull, his brain cells tormented by the Periodic Table, smashed up against elegant words like bilateral symmetry, biology, anatomy, dissect, zoology and mitochondria surrounded by a mountain of books, hills and green valleys of physics and chemistry textbooks, my beautiful shadow that always lingered in my presence. We will talk for hours on everything and nothing at the same time. I do think that I am a poet because of him because are not all writers are poets at some stage in their lives or at least have the potential to become poets within them.
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Stardust #poem & #painting by Nikos Laios
“Do not despair for
We carry the light within us,
We carry the burst of stars in creation,
We carry the surge of the summer sea,
We carry flowers in bloom in the spring”
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Rex Tugwell: Planning and Action for Rural Reconstruction by Rene Wadlow
As world-wide climate change has made the issues of land use, water, desertification, and land reform vital issues, it is useful to recall the contributions of Rexford Tugwell whose birth anniversary we mark on 10 July. Rex Tugwell (1891 – 1979 ) was an economist and an advocate of government planning. He did his PhD studies at Columbia University in New York City. He was influenced by Scott Nearing in the Economics Department and John Dewey in Philosophy. Scott Nearing was a socialist very interested by the efforts of planning in the USSR. Nearing was also a follower of Leo Tolstoy. He gave up university teaching, bought a farm in New England and became an advocate of “back to Nature” and simple living.
Rex Tugwell started teaching at Columbia, and his writings on the need for economic planning was quickly noted after the 1929 Wall Street “crash” and the start of the Great Depression. He was asked to be a member of the early circle around Franklin D. Roosevelt, then Governor of New York. The circle of economists became known as the “Brain Trust”, and they prepared proposals and drafted speeches for Franklin Roosevelt’s campaign for President in 1932. Once elected, Roosevelt named Tugwell as Undersecretary of the Department of Agriculture to work closely with the Secretary of Agriculture, Henry A. Wallace.
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Insert Brain Here 2.0 #015 #cartoon by Paul Woods
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