Podcasts and eassys

Some interesting essays and podcasts to check out. Amazing as to the things one can discover.

Enjoy and learn. Just click and then open at the site.

Steven

 Podcasts

https://aeon.co/videos/what-would-american-fascism-look-like-a-1939-new-york-rally-offered-more-than-a-hint



https://aeon.co/videos/the-deeply-held-religious-convictions-that-kickstarted-capitalism


Essays



https://aeon.co/essays/why-the-western-philosophical-canon-is-xenophobic-and-racist





https://aeon.co/ideas/would-the-world-be-more-peaceful-if-there-were-more-women-leade

First December picture

December poem

At the Window

The old woman stares

out perching her weight

against the sill and perhaps

sees what I do not.

The cold air of fall

makes her grimace

as her body crunches

and folds together to keep

the warmth safe.

She does not flinch

as birds pass and sunlight

filters its way

through the dirty glass

nor does she change position

to the sounds that come

from the street.

Like an outline drawn

at a crime scene

there is both emptiness

and memory looking

straight out at the sickly sky

making her a witness

to something hidden,

to something she is afraid

to let go of.

My mother once stood

at the foot of the bed

where my grandfather

lay covered in a white sheet.

A sheet as deep and as full

as any cloud could be.

She too

did not move

and only stared down

and across him

as if some hill to climb.

Steven Pelcman

Iodine Poetry Journal USA