Poet, Activist, Humanist
Doann Houghton-Alico The following is Heather Cox Richardson’s Letter from an American, Dec. 30, 2023, copied here with her permission. It’s important, in case you didn’t read her email. “One day short of his first 100 days in the White House, on April 28, 2021, President Joe Biden spoke to a joint session of Congress, where he … Read more
With her permission I’m repeating Heather Cox Ricardson’s, Ph.D., email for today. Too many misinformation stories for me to work on at once! Please, folks, truth, facts, STOP THE INSANITY! Here are some documented facts for you. Last week’s court filing in the Dominion Voting Systems case proved that Fox News Channel personalities knew full … Read more
Ukraine, China’s spy balloons, divisive US politics fueled by the media (not just social), the far-right loonies and liars, the odd economy with low unemployment, inflation starting to come down, fear of recession abating, but public perception not changing—proof of our absurd world. All that aside, CLIMATE CHANGE is our number one threat. An existential … Read more
DAVOS MANIFESTO vs. OXFAM JANUARY 2023 BRIEFING PAPER, SURVIVAL OF THE RICHEST The revised 2020 Davos (aka, World Economic Forum/WEF) Manifesto sounds like a reasonable solution to the exploitative capitalism the developed world follows today. Nevertheless, like so much else meant to enable the super-rich to maintain their status and increase their already exorbitant and … Read more
This poem was published in January, 2018 in the Colorado Independent and included in the Columbine Poets of Colorado 40th Anniversary Anthology. It seems particularly relevant to the times in which we find ourselves. MIRROR WORDS A new year starts appearing as a blank slate, but its history is already written in the dust of … Read more