Seán Collins is a Saint Louis-based public media producer interested in community-building, cool lamps, photography, slow food, poetry, and the creative tension of already/not yet.
He's been a Benedictine monk, a bookseller, a network news producer, and a pastoral minister.
IA > NY
Again and again, over and over, Iowa astonishes me. The overriding thought I had learning of the vote in the New York State Senate today was: but in Iowa, marriage is legal for same-sex couples. Iowa.
Dar Williams knows it.
Rabbis James Stone Goodman and Susan Talve know it. So do the Saint Louis couples who traveled to Iowa to be married.
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Because You Asked About The Line Between Prose And Poetry
Big Bend & Forsyth 12/02/2009
Sparrows were feeding in a freezing drizzle
That while you watched turned into pieces of snow
Riding a gradient invisible
From silver aslant to random, white, and slow.
There came a moment that you couldn't tell.
And then they clearly flew instead of fell.
That while you watched turned into pieces of snow
Riding a gradient invisible
From silver aslant to random, white, and slow.
There came a moment that you couldn't tell.
And then they clearly flew instead of fell.
—Howard Nemerov
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World AIDS Day 2009
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Rally at the Cathedral
Several hundred people gathered peacefully outside the Cathedral Basilica of Saint Louis at midday Sunday to protest the discretionary spending of Archbishop Robert J. Carlson in support of efforts to deny civil marriage rights of same-sex couples in Maine. The gift of $10,000, donated by Saint Louis Catholics to a fund traditionally used by Archbishops for things such as disaster relief, came at the request of Archbishop Richard Malone, of Portland, ME.
Today's gathering at the Cathedral questioned that spending at a time when the needs of the poor and disadvantaged in Saint Louis are so great.
More info from the organizers of the rally, here: http://tinyurl.com/yclua3f
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Amy Goodman Talks With CBC About Detention
Listen to the interview.* (Link opens a new window.)
Amy Goodman, host of Democracy Now talks with Carol Off, the interviewer on the CBC broadcast As It Happens, about Goodman’s experience entering Canada to deliver a lecture this week.
* An aside: I always want to do The Frug when I hear the AIH theme music.
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1930s Bad Air in Saint Louis
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch has an amazing photo archive online: photos of Saint Louis in the 1930s, when residences and businesses here were still burning ‘soft’ coal mined nearby. The air quality was amazingly bad. Unbelievably bad. Off the charts bad. The photos are fascinating.
photo: St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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