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October Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872 –1906) October is the treasurer of the year, And all the months pay bounty to her store; The fields and orchards still their tribute bear, And fill her brimming coffers more and more But she, with youthful lavishness, Spends all her wealth in gaudy dress, And decks herself in garments […]

Have You Ever Tried to Sell a Diamond? – The Atlantic (February 1982) sheds light on just how much harm the diamond industry has done overseas. If this much was known in 1982, why did it take so long to get a dialogue going with such works as Blood Diamond?

Edna St. Vincent Millay The Courage that My Mother Had The courage that my mother had Went with her, and is with her still: Rock from New England quarried; Now granite in a granite hill. The golden brooch my mother wore She left behind for me to wear; I have no thing I treasure more: […]