News & Views of Phillips Since 1976
Wednesday January 7th 2026
On Becoming Human Again
from the series Raise Your Voice…
By PETER MOLENAAR
At the corner of Lyndale Ave. and 31st St. there is a place called Redeemer Rehabilitation. Upon passing their examination, the facility saw fit to discharge me subsequent to my July 4th stroke event. As for the afterlife… let it be said, I never committed any great sins, except for my failure to adequately honor my mother and father.
But, MAGA-MAGA, why do the oceans now rise against us all? Whence the destruction of hurricanes? Were the ancient ones not free to respond to Nature’s stimuli? Do we not all descend from ‘primitive communalists’ who, after foraging, returned to the village to receive the honor of sharing? But now, MAGA-MAGA, we suffer your tariffs in order to fund a ballroom for billionaires!
Was Jesus not a communalist who sought to restore the human personality? MAGA-MAGA, let us begin again… by returning the Black Hills to their rightful owners.
PETER MOLENAAR advocates a broad united-front, even as he describes socialism as the future solution.
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Gallery of Loss Part III
Continued from December…
By HARVEY WINJE
Marti Maltby’s January ‘26 Peace House Community Column on page 4 is about “community as a form of spirituality.” This Gallery of Loss series of articles is about loss of trust, buildings, residential neighborhoods, and places of memories. All of those are vessels of community and losing them threatens community as spirituality. Thank you Marti for passing on the words and wisdom from Dr. Kelly Sherman-Conroy.
Review of Parts I & II
Gallery of Loss Part I October 2025 was reprinted from April 2010 as an example for others to write a personal loss, too, that has broader meaning.
That article prompted more details and analysis. I asked myself, “So what? Why is this of interest beyond my own nostalgia and some laments?”
The article grew into Parts:
Part I set the scene using a 1951 photo in the side yard of my boyhood home at 2512-14 Chicago Ave. where a brand new specialty hospital would be built north and across 26th Street from Northwestern Hospital 20 years later. It was to be one hospital on a large, new campus on which four existing hospitals would share some buildings centered at 25th Street and Chicago Ave.… Read the rest “Gallery of Loss Part III”
Keep citizen journalism alive!
Spirit of Phillips Jan ’26
An unpublished cartoon from August 1988! Part 12 of a 13 Part Series…
Dave Moore & Linnea Hadaway have lived here since the Reagan 80s and became life partners while originating the cartoon series “Spirit of Phillips.”
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