Showing posts with label Ursula K. Leguin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ursula K. Leguin. Show all posts
Friday, June 19, 2026

"Sojourns in the Parallel World": Poems for the Solstice

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I woke early, on this longest day: the light rose among  the green conversation  of  trees, a fading star, exultant starlings,   two grey sq...
Tuesday, December 2, 2025

"The Sissie Strikes Back" - Ursula Leguin, and Old Age

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Rooted Saga (2023)  " I've lost faith in the saying "You're only as old as you think you are"  - ever since I got old...
Tuesday, June 10, 2025

A Quote for the Time........

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  "We live in capitalism.  Its power seems inescapable - but then, so did the divine right of kings.  Any human power can be resisted a...
Thursday, May 22, 2025

Remembering Ursula Leguin: Praise for "Realists of a Larger Reality"

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  "I think hard times are coming when we will be wanting the voices of writers who can see  alternatives  to how we live now and can se...
Thursday, October 31, 2024

Samhain (And the Day of the Dead)

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"Past Desire, Hope or Change, I Rest in You, A Seed" (1994) The air has a fragile, and Magical, quality at this time of year, and ...
Monday, February 14, 2022

2014: A HYMN by Ursula K. Leguin

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   Our prophets lead our people on Fast to the promised land, And where we pass, the green of grass Turns to bare brown sand.   So high our ...
Monday, December 9, 2019

"Realists of a Larger Reality" - Remembering Ursula Leguin

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 "I think hard times are coming when we will be wanting the voices of writers who can see  alternatives  to how we live now and c...