Rob's Blog
The Million Women’s March – January 21, 2017
What happened? This was not a protest. It was a clarification. A realignment. It was not an aggrieved victim struggling to have her lonely voice
Rob’s Report from Bozeman
Robert Shetterly was invited to Bozeman, Montana for Martin Luther King Jr. Day, 2015. He spent four days there, visiting schools, working with students at
Torture: A modest (satirical) proposal
Advice to readers: Read all the way to the end! I have expended a lot of energy condemning torture. Not because of the efficacy argument
Commercializing the Christmas Truce: Spinning Hay into Dollars
Artist Robert Shetterly reflects on the commercialization of the Christmas Truce of 1914.
The Myth of Accountability and the Death of Michael Brown
“The law will never make men free; it is men who have got to make the law free.”— Henry David Thoreau I remember the hilarity
A Symphony of Courageous Action
AWTT education director Connie Carter reflects on her afternoon at the symphony.
Nature’s Common Core: Why Rachel Carson should be taught in schools
This is what you shall do: love the earth and the sun and the animals . . . – Walt Whitman Rachel Carson wrote Silent
Contemplating Logic
When I play with my grandson, we suspend the logic of reality. Toy dump trucks fly, giraffes talk with polar bears, gravity is a joke,
A Sigh Heard Round the World
How the Chimney-sweepers cry Every blackning Church appalls, And the hapless Soldiers sigh Runs in blood down Palace walls.— William Blake, London A friend asked