Ken Trainor is a Writer/Editor at Wednesday Journal, Inc. He focuses on themes of culture and society, exploring topics such as cultural movements, pop culture, subcultures, current affairs, and geopolitics. Ken's work has also been featured in the BROOKFIELD BAR OWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC.
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In these times when anger / is turned into anxiety / and someone has stolen / the horizons and mountains, / our small emperors on parade / never expect our indifference / to disturb their nakedness. …
One of my responsibilities over the last many years has been editing the obituaries for our brood of community weekly newspapers. You might think this would be a depressing chore. On the contrary, I frequently find it affirming to read these final summations of other lives.
What were we saying, Saturday, with that gathering of so many souls and so many signs in so many spaces in this time that feels more like night than day? Were we saying that we oppose a president and his henchmen, who oppose everything we stand for and hold dear?
There’s a guy in my neighborhood who goes off on regular afternoon “F*** You!” binges at the top of his lungs. Over and over and over. Chant-like. He lives in earshot. I don’t know if he’s standing at a window or in his backyard, but it goes on a while. At first I was appalled, then annoyed, then it occurred to me. He’s suffering.
It’s the birds, first and foremost, a more audible than visible beauty. Here in the middle of the Midwest, we boast an abundance of songbirds, along with the occasional raucous raven or crow — still not sure about the difference. But how lucky we are to have birdsongs herald spring’s arrival. Cardinals and robins, chickadees and sparrows — and less familiar migrants, temporary guests, singing and winging their way elsewhere.
When someone asks, “How are you?” I’m conflicted. I don’t say that, but I am.
By: Ken Trainor
Youth baseball season is in full swing (so to speak), and for grandparents, that means sitting for hours on the sidelines, huddling in our winter parkas on 50-degree days or sweltering under the hot sun, monitoring the weather report for tornado warnings — and even dust storms! I’m a devoted fan, but watching a baseball […]
Youth baseball season is in full swing (so to speak), and for grandparents, that means sitting for hours on the sidelines, huddling in our winter parkas on 50-degree days or sweltering under the hot sun, monitoring the weather report for tornado warnings — and even dust storms!
Oak Park has an important story to tell — about showing grace under pressure, finding the courage to become a more open, welcoming and inclusive village, filled with people of all backgrounds. We still have wide lawns, as Ernest Hemingway probably didn’t say, but we stretched our minds — and opened our arms.
I don’t believe we will be able to move beyond Donald Trump and all he misrepresents, until we deal with the pre-conditions in this country that made his climb to power possible. I’m thinking specifically about the Supreme Court.
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