Voices

A Message from Oksana Yakushko Dear Pacifica community, Thank you for all the support and wishes and care many of you have offered to Ukraine and Ukrainians. As a Ukrainian immigrant with [...]

Kira Rudyk Calls on Artists & Scholars to Help Ukrainians Fight Tyranny Kira Rudyk, leader of the Ukrainian opposition party, joined Mythouse this morning to call on artists, scholars and [...]

PGIAA condemns the ruthless aggression and baseless invasion of Ukraine by Russian President Vladimir Putin. As we write this, the capital city of Kyiv, a historic, sophisticated European city [...]

Dark Times – A Response Using Tarot Cards By Chris Miller I read the essay “Dark Times” (posted in these pages on September 10, 2021) and immediately saw in it my own experience of “powerlessness [...]

Dark Times by Beth Anne Boardman Well, it’s been quite a five years. Quite a six years. Quite a year. Two years. However long you trace your suffering back, I hope you have found some rays of [...]

The Grieving Tree Project The Grieving Tree project provides participants with a safe space to grieve, mourn, and reflect on their losses under a mulberry tree on the Pacifica Graduate [...]

COVID-19 and the Black Santa Barbara Community A talk and Q&A with Dr. Robert Wright, Pulmonary and Critical Care Physician and Head of Cottage Hospital’s ICU Sunday, January 17th from [...]

Through the Thicket: Distance Learning by Shannon McCabe   At the start of the 2019-2020, I was an ordinary English Language Arts teacher having the best year since early in my teaching [...]

A Poem and Q&A with Diane Coffey   Heart to Heart   I believe in people People with dreams and without dreams People offering everything and offering nothing   I believe in [...]