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by Mike Power

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  • Trees

      I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is prest Against the earth’s sweet flowing breast; A tree that looks at God all day, And lifts her leafy arms to pray; A tree that may in Summer wear A nest of robins in her Read more

  • The Sun

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  • Common Man

      In 1985 Dave Alvin wrote the lyrics to a song called Common Man, sung by his brother Phil on The Blasters album Hard Line. It is another of those depressingly relevant songs that keep popping up these days now that a sizeable majority of US citizens has decided the way to Make America Great Read more

  • The Summer of Love Experience: Consciousness

    This is the final installment in a six-part series on The Summer of Love, inspired by The Summer of Love Experience exhibit at the deYoung Museum in San Francisco.                                                                       8,000 years before Europeans made their way to San Francisco, the people who lived there called it “awaste” or “place by the bay.” The city Read more

  • The Summer of Love Experience: Music

     This is the fifth in a six-part series on The Summer of Love, inspired by The Summer of Love Experience exhibit at the deYoung Museum in San Francisco.                                                                       Chuck Berry set off a time bomb in 1957 that took a decade to fully detonate. In the intervening years, Bob Dylan and Phil Ochs brought Read more

  • The Summer of Love Experience: Politics

    This is the fourth in a six-part series on The Summer of Love, inspired by The Summer of Love Experience exhibit at the deYoung Museum in San Francisco.                                                                      On the bright side, the Giants won 7 in a row On May 13, 1960 the House Subcommittee on Un-American Activities came to San Francisco to Read more