“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
Leaks and official communiques are appearing this morning reporting that progress has been made at the latest peace talks between Russia and Ukraine. Who knows? Aside from the demolition of cities and the targeting of hospitals and schools by Russian artillery and missiles, reports of more intimate atrocities are coming out – a video that may show Ukrainian troops shooting Russian POW’s, personal testimonies of rape by Russian troops. Individuals […]
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March 2022 Day 29 I watch the sky where I keep my eyes this March when I rake when I clip the stalks which crack like kindling filling minutes with any intensity anything to evade a tenuous life just shy of 70 I watch the sky scribbling this with redwings buzzing close above me under a hazy sun thinking no one should be granted quiet these universal yearnings peace impermissible […]
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The Old Norse root of madness means “to hurt, to maim”, the Gothic, “crippled and wounded”, and the High German, “foolish, vain, boastful.” Putin’s madness matches all of these definitions. He is bombing schools, churches, hospitals, kidnapping civilians and transporting them back to Russia. He is intent on making a desert. He cannot take the cities. He doesn’t have enough men. He cannot resupply […]
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Perhaps all kinds of courage can be arranged into 2 categories: See/Do and Think … Do. The ellipsis marks matter. See/Do occurs in the moment – the teacher who covers children with her body when the shooter comes into their classroom; the teenage boy who reaches into the burning car to pull out the stranger. In See/Do, there is no time for the imagination to do its insidious work and […]
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