…and This is Only the Beginning View From HereBy David Mark GreavesThe report from the International Panel on Climate Change is best described as terrifying. It says the earth, as we’ve known it, is changing for the worse due to human activity.We are just going into it now, with worldwide wildfires, floods, and droughts, being […]readmore
By David Mark Greaves Simone BilesWhat a class-act champion Simone Biles is. She did her vault and then, with a pensive look, walked to her coaches and then her teammates. She gives them all hugs and we hear her saying “I love you guys. This is your first. I’ll be fine.”After she said she realized […]readmore
View From HereBy David Mark GreavesWe are in the beginning of multiple eras in Brooklyn that span the city, nation, and the globe. In the city we have an unprecedented change in political leadership. With most of the city council being women, we’ll see what that female energy and intuitive connections bring to the table […]readmore
View From HereBy David Mark Greaves Which Way the Inflection?One year after the murder of George Floyd there is a lot of talk of the country being at an inflection point in race relations, and we certainly are. The question is “Which way is the inflection?”On one hand, there is hope that the outpouring of […]readmore
By David Mark GreavesWe see the emotional trauma inflicted on the witnesses to the death of George Floyd in the testimony they are giving in the murder trial of the officer charged with his death, Derek Chauvin. These onlookers were traumatized by having to stand helpless as one of their own, a citizen on the […]readmore
By David Mark GreavesThe mother buried with her child in the African Burial Ground in lower Manhattan looks up to us out of a grave carved from a harsher and meaner place, centuries ago. The Weeksville Lady, dressed and mannered for Sunday service, stops for a moment to capture onto tintype, a satisfied confidence, looking […]readmore
View From HereBy David Mark GreavesPresident Biden’s $1.9 billion American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 is rooted in a bottom-up strategy, where it is the masses of people who get the money and the services they need. This plan with its many parts will reset the nation’s trajectory, concentrating its efforts on the faith and […]readmore
View From Hereby David Mark GreavesBlack History month 2021 should be a celebration of how African Americans has saved this country yet again. What the insurrection in the Capitol has shown, along with their enablers in congress and the ascent of the racist, antisemitic, deranged conspirator Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene in the Republican party is […]readmore
