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The Green Pen

Michael Abkin

An evolutionary perspective on these revolutionary times...plus a little whimsy.

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Plea for Peace

Dear Fellow Human,

I send this postcard to you from Hiroshima, home of the hibakusha (atomic bomb survivors), who won the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize. I came here expecting to visit a war memorial but find only a monument to peace, the Hiroshim...

3 days ago
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Writing Pluringular

I penned these thoughts thirty years ago, inspired by an article in the 5/19/96 San Jose Mercury News (by Rob Kyff).

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Sunday we found in the paper
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14 days ago
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Empty, Undeveloped, Weedy

In a recent story in the San Mateo Daily Journal about a hotel development in nearby Half Moon Bay, a member of the California Coastal Commission referred to the parcel as a “developable piece of empty land”.

I am always struck when a parc...

a month ago
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How Can America Be Great?

À propos of my Fourth of July post, friend Jacquie today sent a poem written in 1935 by Langston Hughes, “Let America Be America Again”. Here are a few opening lines. I encourage you to click the link and read all of it.

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a month ago
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Two Worlds on the Fourth of July (revised)

(Today is July 5. I wanted to get the original version of this post out on the Fourth itself, so hurried it a bit. This revision is, hopefully, a little more polished.)

July 4, 2026, marks 250 years since signing of the Declaration of Inde...

a month ago

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    A former systems engineer and peacebuilding volunteer, Mike enjoys exploring the intersection of science, social systems, and spirituality as well as spending time with family, traveling, walking in nature, and musing in prose and poetry.

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