“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
Jane Eyre begins life as a ward of the wealthy Reed family, “a dependent … who ought to beg,” an orphan, one to whom no one owes affection. Mrs. Reed is her aunt but that means nothing. Mrs. Reed is one of several brutes who blight her childhood. We come upon Jane at 10 years of age, under siege from a malevolent cousin, John Reed, 14, a budding sociopath who […]
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MAGA cannot be defined by stupidity. Seventy-four million Americans are stupid? That makes no sense, but continuing to support the lunatic Trump also makes no sense – this abuser of women, destroyer of democracy, demonstrated liar, vile human being. How to explain this? What makes no sense is this desire on the part of MAGA to smash everything – democracy, schools, libraries, the environment, the rights of women, the right […]
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I have been searching out the mystery of my mother and father for over a decade. Let me say it melodramatically – I have been reaching out to touch ghosts, and in traveling to Donaldson PA, my father’s ghost. In 1941 as a 24-year-old Pennsylvania State Trooper, he was the first officer present at a confrontation between several thousand ‘ bootleg ’ miners and their wives and children and a coterie […]
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I wrenched down a swinging 20-foot limb from our dead maple yesterday, a heavy beast which crashed and splintered and drove two branches a foot into the ground, and then I broke it apart with an ax that I sharpened and resharpened, and I hoisted its pieces and hauled them to a brush pile. Every day I’m trying to match the body to the mind. Read, write, bend, lift, walk, […]
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