What Crosses My Mind

  • Silent Emotions (No Kings Day)

    The day will fill quickly, those with tired souls, aching hearts, shattered ideals. The want will be heavy with the weeks of confusion, lost apathy. What happens tomorrow, when international bedlam conflicts a birthday, a fascist pig, while all the pain and suffering is background to his own failure. Find our peace tomorrow. The resistance,…

  • Predictable Love

    Hurting people line the streets tonight, much like any night across America, many years, so many lives lost, waiting to be heard, always a slamming door, the same is ever preset yet people tonight are saying this time is different, this ‘is the season’ says the reverend, Al Sharpton stirs the world acknowledges his verbosity…

  • What Happened in America?

    In the wake of the death of George Floyd at the hands of the Minneapolis Police Department – more specifically an individual in the police force, rhetoric is being tossed around with ignorance and thoughtful dialogue. The unfortunate nature of protest has turned ugly after the sun goes down across the country slowly burying the…

  • Minneapolis

    Tear down the city Tear gas is a ‘solution’ Tears are not enough © Thom Amundsen 5/2020

  • Why I attended a Trump rally

    I was recently given tickets to attend the Trump rally in Duluth, Minnesota last night. Given the controversy around the issues occurring on our southern border, I felt like this was my closest opportunity I might have to put myself in a place to show resistance to his actions and the impact he is having…

  • If They Are Just Kids

    If everyone knew the correct answer, then why would the children be so annoying. If the adults might only listen for a reason, then perhaps they might never again tease.   There seems to be a worthy cause on our horizon, kids are speaking up, and there’s a faction of human beings, still want to…

  • Lest We Forget, Again

    For we do that, oh so often, we do decide upon a beautiful sunset, perhaps the rising moon, a sweet snowfall, even the rain of a heated summer day, lets our mind return to the numbing nature of a human condition built upon, the product of denial.   But we cannot, simply look alive people,…

  • Our Violent Humanity

      It would seem we haven’t had enough, Watching our neighbors fall to the sword, The world around us eschewing the evil Of a nation lost in a swirl of self-pity. – No one to blame but ourselves, Yet that never comes into play, We are soon to discover some outlet, Easy to say we…

  • Peaceful Resistance

    What led the world to respond, with not only a few, enough to stop the presses or perhaps filter the pond, that place with which he will empty he stresses.   There this movement spoke with urgency offered the eyes of millions to understand we are framed within our own clemency, to know the bounds…

  • I Turned Off The News

      Yesterday, I made a conscious decision to turn off the news. Having watched the now ‘idle’ banter of prognosticators and candidates for the last year, the outcome in hand, I wasn’t excited about hearing any theory, any ‘told you so’ antics, or any patronage from the winning side of an ugly defeat. I told…