Peace

Finding your inner peace and outward strength. Posted May 22, 2020 Source: Pixabay I wrote this poem for a dear friend — and now with their permission, I would like to share it with you: People will ask “Where were you when the world was lonely?”  I was always here While…

Finding your inner peace and outward strength. Posted May 22, 2020 Source: Pixabay I wrote this poem for a dear friend — and now with their permission, I would like to share it with you: People will ask “Where were you when the world was lonely?”  I was always here While…

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas waves in Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank - MOHAMAD TOROKMAN /ReutersThis article was originally published in Letter from Jerusalem, our weekly newsletter which takes a deeper look at the people and places of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. You can sign up for free here.Late on Tuesday night,…

“We’d like to offer you the position,” she said, meeting me with a broad, expectant smile. I had thought I was coming in for a final interview, but was instead met with a job offer. I was stunned. I had applied for the position on a lark, thinking I was…

Jes Macallan, Caity LotzPhoto: Jeff Weddel (The CW)Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Tuesday, May 19. All times are Eastern.Top pickDC’s Legends Of Tomorrow (The CW, 9 p.m.): It’s an inevitability in a time-travel story: Eventually, your heroes will find themselves in an apocalypse. So here are the…

Roger Waters released a socially distanced rendition of Pink Floyd’s “Mother” Sunday, with the bassist performing The Wall classic with his touring unit via video. “Social distancing is a necessary evil in Covid world,” Waters tweeted. “Watching ‘Mother’ reminds me just how irreplaceable the joy of being in a band…

Along with everything else, the coronavirus has upended pop culture: Movie theaters are closed, concerts and other live events are canceled or postponed, TV production is all but shut down. But the powers of the internet and digital media prevail! Whether old or new, there are still plenty of movies…

Zalmay Khalilzad, US envoy for reconciliation in Afghanistan has blamed ISIL for the recent attacks, saying Afghans must come together to fight this 'menace'. The United States on Thursday blamed ISIL (ISIS) - not the Taliban - for an attack on a maternity ward in Afghanistan this week in which…

In the spring of 2019, when David Byrne (b. May 14, 1952) took the stage at the third annual Universe in Verse to read a science-inspired love poem to time and chance titled “Achieving Perspective,” I introduced him as one of the last standing idealists in our world — a…

EXCLUSIVE: Orlando von Einsiedel, whose short doc The White Helmets picked up the 2017 Academy Award, is teaming with National Geographic to launch a series of short films celebrating Nobel Peace Prize Laureates from around the world. The five docs will launch on Nat Geo’s YouTube channel on May 20. Three…