Author Archives: Richard Guzman
Peace
For Hirsch Diamant and the 2007 Peace Festival, Oregon Peace is choosing peace Ploughshares and pruning hooks Could be beaten Back to what they were Choose not to We dance the tai chi We … Continue reading
Emmanuel House Becomes “The Neighbor Project”
In 2016 Emmanuel House was named one of the “Top 100 Most Innovative” social change organizations in the world. On April 6, 2018, it held by far its most successful fund raiser, a Gala at the Aquaviva Winery in Maple … Continue reading
Coffee, Ambien, Race
Caffeine speeds us up, Ambien slows us down. Fast or slow, in America race is always there, much as we still spend huge amounts of energy denying it, trying not to face it. Is Starbucks’ closing of 8000 stores “facing … Continue reading →