“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
I needed the tags with our senior photos and names until I began to look into individual’s expressions, and then I saw the face beneath the face of what time had rendered. With most of us, that is all that was necessary for the old circles within circles of the tribe of 1970 to fracture, and for the warmth of individuals to emerge, a welcoming, a genuine happiness at speaking […]
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I thought I would write about the possibility of third acts in American life, about how some people’s prosperity and good fortune allow for a meaningful time after they finish a career, but the inexorable press of events made that essay subject absurd. Kabul will soon fall to a theocratic tyranny. The bodies of the murdered from the Ethiopian Civil War are washing up on the banks of the Tekeze […]
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In a few weeks a handful of us, about 25% of our graduating class, will stand in front of mirrors and hope for the kindness of gentle lighting. We will stand in front of mirrors and look at the outline of our sagging faces and slopes of flesh letting loose and see again in our mind’s eye what we were at 18, members of a lucky species, the sons and […]
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I attended a local school board meeting on Monday evening out of curiosity and loyalty, this the District that gave me the opportunity to teach kids for a long time, and any school district now a venue where the polarizing forces at play in this country find an expression on an intimate level. Monthly school board meetings, like small town councils and township supervisor meetings have become the equivalent of […]
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