Ray Levy Uyeda is a writer and reporter based in the San Francisco Bay Area. 

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Commentary

As climate tipping points loom, finding hope in the gray whale's comeback

Commentary: We're approaching climate tipping points. While we must turn the clock back on our own destruction, do we have the resolve? A poem from our past didn't think we could do what we needed to do.

Perspective

On Janis Joplin's 'Pearl,' hear someone who is deeply alive

Perspective: Affected by music, Janis almost seems possessed, by something other than herself. I have never been affected by anything that deeply. (How much do you allow yourself to be affected?) Most of the time I am hiding.

Perspective

Joni Mitchell's 'For the Roses' is the perfect balance of love and breaking up

Perspective: Contributor Ray Levy Uyeda uses poetry to explore the love and ache in Joni Mitchell's 1972 album "For The Roses."

Perspective

The messages of Ziggy Stardust: Do not believe in endings

Perspective: We can listen to David Bowie's 1972 "The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars" as if it were released this year, as if its messages were precisely of this time, urgent and unrelenting.