"....poverty and richness are not opposites in quite the way respectable life tells us. One can possess very little and still inhabit an existence."
www.counterpunch.org/2026/10/09/n...
by Peter Bach (@lyst.bsky.social)
Saturday reading: Peter Bach's article about @ccohanlon.bsky.social and his wife Given at Counterpunch.
No Fall Back But Land
www.counterpunch.org/2026/10/09/n...
"To have no map is frightening. To discover that you can still imagine a destination may be another name for hope."
Please read this beautiful piece by @lyst.bsky.social about my friends CC and Given, who are finding, in their 70s, that a place to call home is heartbreakingly elusive. "How little certainty can a life withstand and still remain a life freely chosen?" www.counterpunch.org/2026/10/09/n...
"CC and Given have spent years inhabiting the question most of us postpone: how little certainty can a life withstand and still remain a life freely chosen?"
My wife and I are grateful to be profiled with Peter Bach's (@lyst.bsky.social) poetry and empathy.
Geopolitics as couples therapy. www.counterpunch.org/2026/09/20/t...
"Economic decline. Betrayal by governing elites. Resentment of Ukraine. Distrust of established media... "An influence operation does not need to persuade a German voter that Moscow is right if it can persuade the same voter that Berlin is lying." – Peter Bach (@lyst.bsky.social)
26/09/03/when-the-world-stops-dreaming-in-american/
