Greetings for better times  Joe
I read most of Fante's
I had to stop very quickly after beginning most
BUT
”Ask The Dust” & “The Road To Los Angeles” were Light  for me

“bland” you say compared to Fante
not your books and poems i say
i came to view my many bland periods & phases as rest stops ... collecting & absorbing  historical... i wasn't dead
Os  Bill
commondreams.org
beyond words
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Bill Dane

response to Guggenheim solicitation:

It is always a pleasure thinking of you all  who twice  literaIly  helped save my lives  art and psych.
NancyDulberg and I have taught in public schools  and then  Nancy taught college  future teachers.
We are Very Lucky by any measures.
Like regular USAers  small money.
Not a complaint. 
We hope you all will go on saving lives
These times are Life-Planet-Destroying.
We are a Jewish Family
our grain of sand pains...
Os  Bill Dane++++
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beyond words
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Bill Dane


when  BLACK LIVES MATTER  we All will
empathize  cooperate  climatize  democratize  socialism
entitled  privileged  lucked+  Os Bill

Bill Dane


. . . and I am not able to know what I would do in another’s situation. . .

Bill Dane


’21 ‘22 ‘23 knees hips back head have had enough . . .
this is not a complaint
not in this life with others
this website for you is my project
good luck for all of us

Bill Dane
Response to an an academic's article going around n around...

Response to an an academic's article going around n around...

...it is important that we strive to find and read pieces that actually get deep into the history and context of this horrific moment and provide complex intersectional insights as we are forced to witness & reckon with this--and there are MANY brilliantly written things available to read and I respect the intention of learning and sharing and seeking out relevant analysis and news.

BUT, I am disheartened and sad by having to read this based on recent conversations because I think this article actually and very clearly completely misses the root and core issue in all of its paragraphs. my first and best response would be to not respond, but I'm going to go ahead and speak my piece on this one.

..i don't think he meant for the article to be just one big typo but he accidently said, " first we need to condemn what happened on Oct 7" instead of saying "first we need to condemn the occupation of palestine by Israel for 75 years" oops he has it backwards--because in fact what happened on Oct 7 was born of decades of elimination, land grabbing, abuse, trauma, occupation bombing violence and parallel acts inflicted on palestinians by Israelis so in fact..there is concrete justification for the occurrence of a violent act against Israel at some point as resistance movements against occupation must be inherently violent to gain liberation from their violent and heavily militarislzed and US funded and backed opressors..from a violent oppressive state acting as a proxy for the US imperialist military white supremacist zionest project (no one is denying that people dying isn’t very sad, may they all rest in peace. Im sure many of them were great people but..hey if you have to say "Full Stop" about the oct 7 killings First and Not Full Stop for hundreds of Palestinian children murdered by israeli soldiers in recent yesrs with gunfire bombs during raids and forced displacement--check the stats-- OR 75 years of deep intergenerational trauma and violence and 75 years of Palestinian children dying and wetting their beds and losing their parents and getting garbage hurled at them and not thinking they will make it to age 13..then there is a major problem.) 

unfortunately, this appears to be yet another Israel-centered, why can't we all get along, wishy washy article by likely a white jew that in no place, written or inferred, demands an end to Israeli apartheid or names the genocide of Palestinians for what it is and focuses on that.

Quote "Israel must prevent the already massive humanitarian disaster that is UNFOLDING in Palestine from expanding further"

this is a passive sentence without an actor..the disaster isn't unfolding, Israel caused it. how and why would a state purposefully enacting genocide on a group of people randomly decide to stop and  "prevent it"  ..it has not been only unfolding this week, Israel has been violently trying and succeeding to exterminate and control and wipe out Palestinians for years. This author cleverly lifts and quietly pushes aside any clear accountability & responsibility guilt and shame from Israel for the massacre of over 5000 Palestinians, making it easy for especially white Jewish readers to continue to get behind the rhetoric of "before we address what's happening in Palestine we have to address the brutality of the hamas attack" which is a PR /news tactic that directs attention to the violence of Hamas and makes it easily to call Palestinians(and Palestinian children) terrorists as they are slaughtered and bombed their grocery stores and hospitals watching their children be charred and crushed under concrete rubble and amputated or resuscitated by doctors with no electricity or supplies or anesthesia  on the cold ground in a room full of other childrens’ dead bodies, and absolves Israel, Israeli jews, christian zionists, and the US government and population, of responsibility for doing the only meaningful act of : Pulling all money from military aid to Israel and stripping them of their power and retracting support so they cannot finish off the Palestinians which is what their doing streamed on the world stage.

This perspective is not helpful ( for me), insightful innovative nor politically/analytically complex and just is more of the same talking in circles without decisive messaging toward truth and justice...

I could make the analogy that it's like if a woman covered in old bruises, past never healed, broken ribs, head trauma, ptsd whose been made to stay in a tiny closet when she actually owned the house before her husband moved in, and living in this closet under threat without proper basic resources to meet her physiological, social, emotional needs, scarred and wrecked from years of domestic violence and control and threats of murder, finally comes back with a knife and stabs her abusive husband in the leg or the groin or god forbid the NECK but he recovers and so now he may need a cane to walk, and the cops or the news or the woman's neighbors or the government or whatever or this writer guy say ..First we have to acknowledge the brutality and horror of the knife attack on the leg of this man FULL stop Before we can address the human safety and right to Life of the abused woman , because her hands’ act of violence was not justified by all the years of abuse (??) and hopefully we can just come to a solution that works out for everyone..Lol no

Any group, news story, city, government, school, etc that does not unequivocally call for an end to the genocide of Palestinians is complicit with each Palestinian death, and therefore the deaths of the Israeli citizens...whoever forgot people die in wars, violence occurs under totalitarian oppression. Palestinians have been under siege for years. Free Palestine. End The Siege. Ceasefire Now. End US military funding of Israel anything less is garbage and we know it. 

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The best/only good thing I've heard today is that the City of Richmond passed a resolution in support of Gaza and Palestinian Freedom they are the FIRST US city with its mayor and city council (thanks to Arab Resource and Organizing Center and Asian Pacific Environmental Network) to call for an end to the genocidal war Israel is raging on Palestinians.

thank you
(EDD, Jewish usa woman, RN)

Bill Dane


our little in-law apartment sink-frig-2burner thing gave it all up
it disintegrated by bits over 60+ years
the front panel fell off
Sara called the view a fright
me entertaining
bless tiny frights these days

Bill Dane
Tom Garver died


DAM death

Dear Willie Williams at Haverford

I met Tom​ Garver in '78

then  I literally bumped him at a rural nor California railroad museum

I went to photo

He went to ride

Tom created the most engaging show of my photo-history at his Madison Art Center '81

it traveled to Santa Clara University '82

wish i had a visual!

We did emails until this sad year

You really knew Tom

I hope Photography does

Love  Bill at billdane.com

Bill Dane

decisive moment

so many kinds

Bill Dane