“In such a world of conflict, a world of victims and executioners, it is the job of thinking people, not to be on the side of the executioners.”- Camus
Last week a friend of mine asked me to concisely list everything that has brought us to this present political moment. Another friend also offered his additions to my incomplete list. This is the result: Begin with an underlying distrust about government, a distrust that is 250 years old, and that has now metastasized into a profound cynicism. Add an underlying American race hatred that is 400 years old and that […]
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The American reporting on Pope Leo XIV’s election has been parochial and narrow and most often pitched in terms of him being chosen as a counterweight to Trump. The Pope must be a politician. A prime example of that is John Paul II and his support of Solidarity in defiance of the Polish Government and the Soviet Union, but the Pope is first and foremost, the leader of 1.4 billion […]
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I want to do more than remember. I wish to be of use. One must act upon life, not always be acted upon, enter it, not be apart from it. The struggle comes between available energy and intent, between striving after purpose and the delivery of results. We are all in a race with entropy. Older waitresses have begun to call me “Honey” and give me the side-eye check to measure whether […]
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I have been dreaming of one river for over a month, a river that remains mysterious, but it is always dark, its current powerful. Sometimes I am in the pull of that current and moving with great speed. I am never afraid. I cannot explain that. I love the ocean in Maine where the granite coast and islands always provoke wilderness in my imagination, a coast that promises to crack […]
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