Buy and fly the UN flag Fly it as a prayer for peace, speed the day when all wars cease. Fly it as a vote for Earth, by a midwife for global government’s birth. Fly it as an earthly embrace, give a healing hug to the whole human race. Fly it as a flicker of … Buy and fly the UN flag
Bill and Mary Lee spent much of the their married life without a car, but they did have this license plate on the Volkswagen bus they had for 10 or 15 years.
In 1979, Bill was arrested at a protest against Cruise Missiles at Lockheed in Sunnyvale, CA. This was Bill’s first arrest in a protest (although he was a lifelong protestor for peace and civil rights). His middle son, Lee, had been arrested the year before at Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant (near San Luis Obispo, … A letter to his son after being arrested at Lockheed in 1979
The following are letters to the Berkeley Daily Gazette written by Bill in 1971, published in the “The open forum” section. (Information on Reverend Doug Smith’s Vietnam War Protest on Mt. Shasta can be found here.) From the Mountain Top (published August 20, 1971) Tuesday morning I watched the sunrise from the summit of Mt. … Two letters about hills and mountains
I have finally scanned Bill’s book in as a PDF. A few of the pages are missing (November 2012), but I hope to find them soon. Download it here.
Bill wrote this poem “it must have been in the 60’s.” I recorded him reading it in 2008, then added the images to create this video.
Bill distributed these four poems on a flier in March of 1991. His introductions are in above each. Dear friends, Poetry has been good for me lately. This first day of spring seems right for collecting a few and sharing them with some of you. I owe some of you written copies of one or … Four Poems — distributed 3-20-1991
I retired April 1st [1990]. For years I planned to begin retirement with a walking bridge between the world of work and a world beyond work. I would push a mail cart from San Francisco to the United Nations in support of peace and the U.N., from April 25 to October 24. But on April … Retirement and Unretirement (An April 1st Tale) 1990
Ogunquit, 11-6-1993 The museum is closed, winterized. Benches and some of the sculpture garden critters are wrapped snugly in blue plastic, cocoons, hibernating until spring, with here and there a head, tail or toenail showing. Some statues, pieces of scupture, have been released from their concrete anchorages and hidden away somewhere in deeper hibernation. The … Five Ogunquit Poems, 1993