Volume 10 sustainABILITY Issue 1
climate crisis and eco-economics
The BeZine | 10:1 Spring 2023 | sustainABILITY
Volume 10 sustainABILITY Issue 1
climate crisis and eco-economics
Category: BeZine ToC
The BeZine | 9:4 Winter 2022 | Life of the Spirit and Activism
Volume 9 Life of the Spirit and Activism Issue 4
fuel for change
Introduction
Life of the spirit
fuel for change
Remaining Awake
So much seems off course—climate crisis, Ukraine war, rising fascism, depleted energy for resisting—where do we find fuel to keep up the struggle for change? In the pages of this issue glimmer hopes, stars in dark nights, dreams—alongside outrage, compassion, and the fire that makes us all (as Youssef Alaoui says early in this issue). That star-sun-moon fire—the Holy Spirit to some, the light of Creation to others, stardust to many, Enlightenment shining forth for still others—this spirit moves us all to love, to care for our siblings and cousins, to awaken and rise up from ashes of despair and sing our songs.
The political right attacks “woke” and wields the word as a weapon against “…any left-leaning policy that it [wants] to condemn,” Professor Esau McCaulley writes when discussing the last Sunday sermon given by the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., “Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution.” Prof. McCaulley tells us that “…although King doesn’t say the word ‘woke,’ he uses the concept as it was understood by many Black folks then…” (NYTimes “The Kind of Revolution That Martin Luther King Jr. Envisioned” 13 Jan 2023).
Citing the story of Rip Van Winkle, Dr. King points out that a little noticed sign in the story is of great importance. When he goes up to the mountains to sleep, it shows King George III; when he comes down it shows George Washington. The change leaves him feeling lost and confused, not knowing the world. Rip Van Winkle slept through a revolution that changed that world. King warns that too many people are sleeping through three revolutions—technological change, weapons of mass destruction, and the social revolution of human rights.
Sound familiar?
While Dr. King talks about how in 1968 the geological world had shrunk and time quickened through modern jet travel, how our word balanced on the brink of nuclear destruction, but also how a great outcry for freedom was being heard around the globe. He reminds us that our neighbors had become global, not just down the street. That we had to care for our neighbors everywhere there was oppression and injustice.
Sound familiar?
The BeZine | 9:3 Fall 2022 | Social Justice
Volume 9 Social Justice Issue 3
listening, learning, reaching out
The BeZine | 9:2 Summer 2022 | Waging Peace
Volume 9 Waging Peace: personal & global Issue 2
The Bezine | 9:1 Spring 2022 | sustainABILITY & Ukraine Peace special section
Volume 9 sustainABILITY & Ukraine Peace Issue 1
sustainABILITY
—with a special section—
Ukraine Peace
The Bezine | 8:4 Winter 2021 | Life of the Spirit and Activism
The BeZine
Volume 8 Life of the Spirit Issue 4
Life of the Spirit
and
Healing
The BeZine | 8:3 Fall 2021 | Social Justice
The BeZine
Volume 8 September 15, 2021 Issue 3
Social Justice
and
Hunger
Cover art: Exchange 1900–2021
Digital Landscape from Photos (Winona, MN, USA, and Jerusalem, Israel)
©2021 Michael Dickel
The BeZine | 8:2 Summer 2021 | Waging Peace
The BeZine
Volume 8 June 15, 2021 Issue 2
Waging Peace
through finding common ground
Cover art: Still Life with Goldfish and Lotus
Kat Patton
Digital Image
The BeZine | 8:1 Spring 2021 | SustainABILITY
The BeZine
Volume 8 March 15, 2021 Issue 1
SustainABILITY
Cover art: Sadness of Water
Kat Patton
Colored Pencil, 11″ X 14″
The BeZine December 2020, Vol. 7, Issue 4—Life of the Spirit and Activism
G Jamie Dedes
Introduction
What a year 2020 has been: global pandemic, international instabilities, U.S. election turmoil. So much. We here at The BeZine have suffered a personal loss, as well, with the passing of G Jamie Dedes, our Founding Editor and Editor-in-Chief emerita. Jamie led us with light, gentleness, and love.
Jamie may be gone, but her light shines on in her influence and inspiration, which we at The BeZine honor and mark. John Anstie, one of our core team of contributors, has curated a collection of tributes, eulogies, and elegies for this issue, in a section “for Jamie…”, where writers and artists from all over the world have joined us in remembering Jamie. This section also includes some of her writing and artwork.
Some of her photographs are also sprinkled throughout the rest of the issue, as well, as we continue the project that is The BeZine in Jamie’s name and spirit. The theme for this month, Life of the Spirit, chosen for this issue by her over a year ago, was especially close to her heart. She wanted to be sure that each year The BeZine would focus on this important aspect of our lives, activism, and work. Spirituality is the linchpin that holds together the other three themes of the year: Peace, Sustainability, and Social Justice.
So, read about and be inspired by Jamie and by Life of the Spirit as interpreted by artists and writers around the world.
Table of Contents
for Jamie…
Introduction
An Appreciation of G Jamie Dedes — John Anstie
The Voices of G Jamie Dedes
Unforgettable — Corina Ravenscraft
victory is mine by Jamie Dedes — Jamie Dedes
Her Light Continues — Corina Ravenscraft
Wanderer — Jamie Dedes
The View from My Place by Jamie Dedes — John Anstie
My Favorite Poem by Dear G Jamie Dedes — Anjum Wasim Dar
Additional Tributes
Tribute from Priscilla Galsso — Priscilla Galasso
Tribute from Irma Do — Irma Do
Tribute from Artist Peter Wilkin — Peter Wilkin
Elegies & Eulogies
Finding G Jamie Dedes — Anjum Wasim Dar
Unforgettable, Gifted, G Jamie Dedes ~ Yes, In Heaven — Anjum Wasim Dar
Grace — Brian Shirra
Mentor Never Met — Chrysty Hendrick
So What Do You Do? — Dewitt Clinton
Goodbye Jamie Dedes — Isadora delaVega
I Am Not Here — Jane Spokenword
Anti-Dystopoem — John Anstie
Eulogy for A Beautiful Soul — Mbizo Chirasha
For Jamie—a poem — Michael Dickel
Jamie by Mike Stone — Mike Stone
A Bulgarian Dedication to G Jamie Dedes — Miroslava Panayotova
Music
A Eulogy and a Song — John Anstie
Stories
The End of the World — Naomi Baltuck
Not The End
A Natural Continuum — Antoni Ooto
Life of the Spirit and Activism
Poetry
The Secret of Life — John Anstie
Dawn after Pandemic—4 poems — Obinna Chilekezi
After Toto—3 poems — Judy Decroce
Breathing — Michael Dickel
Wrestling the Guru of Divine Energy—3 poems — Milton P. Ehrlich
Among the angels—3 poems — Pat Leighton
Saturday Paper Pietà—3 poems — Kate Maxwell
Two Poems from TD Nelson — TD Nelson
Give Us New Hope—5 poems — Robert Priest
Gulls in an Hour Glass — Kathryn Sadakierski
The Truth Is and 4 Other Poems — Mike Stone
Essay
Do You Regret or Rejoice — Corina Ravenscraft
Web Inspirations
Arts, Activism, and Spirituality Inspirations Online — Bardo Group / Beguine Again
Coda
The Evanescent and Two Other Poem-Psalms — P. C. Moorehead
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