Karen Laslo

Dear Family, Friends, Democrats, Green Party Members, Independents and Anyone Else:

Are you worried, depressed, confused and just plain scared of how a Trump presidency will affect you and your family? Are you wondering what you can do to mitigate Trump’s impending policies against the environment and the planet, people of color, women, the disabled, poor people, Social Security, Medicare and our civil rights? Or do you feel so cynical that you just want to give up? Then please watch or listen to this interview of Bernie Sanders by Amy Goodman recorded right after the presidential election. Bernie has some important things to say to all of us – the beleaguered “Middle Class.”

Please watch or listen to the whole interview. What bernie has to say may make you feel better. Pass this message on, far and wide.

Here’s the link to the December 26th program of Democracy Now! heard on KZFR 90.1, Chico:

https://www.democracynow.org/2016/12/26/bernie_sanders_the_democracy_now_interview

Bernie in Chico, June 2016

Bernie in Chico, 2016

I wrote this poem in the cold winter of 1997. Now each successive winter is “the warmest in recorded history. When the president-elect of our country is a “climate denier” determined to forfeit a healthy planet for the sake of corporate profit, one loses hope for any return to a pattern of normal seasons. Still, in the warmest of winters, the emergence of February’s daffodils give me heart and show me the way to a better world.

WINTER SOLSTICE POEM #2

The long dark night _mg_9146
bears down on me
as heavy as
my old wool coat.

The shortest day
bundles me up –
long underwear,
hat, gloves, scarf,
stiffened jacket crackles
in the frosty air.
The sun casts my shadow _mg_9159shadow
wan upon the garden path.

Winter colors-
grey, brown, dark green –
shall wear,
not tomorrow,
soon,
the yellow of the daffodil. _mg_4228

by Karen Laslo 12/97

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WINTER SOLSTICE 2016