“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
My favorite color has been yellow, the color of light, of sunflowers, the color that shows up across a valley in a coat, in a chickadee, but now blue has become the color that pops with such bright vigor because my cataracts are gone, and the blue sky is a wonder. My new lens invites in a blue I have not seen since childhood. The experts say it cannot last, […]
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The Greeks knew, and Shakespeare too, that tragedy is inevitable, and that it springs from our mortality, from our flawed characters and from our intersection with an inhuman, unforgiving natural world. Too often we follow our desires blindly and take actions whose full range of consequences we could never have foreseen. Too often, an accident will take its toll. Through a series of thoughtless and innocent choices, we end up […]
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Nations do not care if you believe in them or reject them. We live within their domains of alliances and enemies and must choose accordingly – either in rejecting their supremacy and finding a way to live with that choice or to make a choice to accept our nation’s (every nation’s) often egregious actions and act within that world. What is possible? What is merely an implausible dream? For […]
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“The mysteries of artistic creation are such that even the artist may have only the foggiest notion of what the work is aiming to be. A poem ends up on the page. But it’s not an utterance like a message or a telegram. In this respect, every poem is susceptible to Prufrock’s refrain, “That is not what I meant at all.” What The Thunder Said: How The Waste Land Made […]
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