“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
The video is of poor quality, grainy, badly focused and framed, but for me it captures the power of theater to rise up in one moment on one night, a scene never to be repeated, and offer beauty and catharsis and a sense of gratitude that you had seen this. Sondheim’s lyrics show us a park and water, grass, trees, and light, especially light, filtered through the painter’s perception. In so […]
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I love crows and their corvid cousins, ravens. They are not cute. They grow plentiful around battlefields and garbage dumps. If I fell in the woods or fields, they would eat me and spread the word “Here we feast!” They are omnivorous and will gobble down baby birds. Beautiful and smart, the brightest of the birds, they are tool users and capable of recognizing individual human faces, capable of mourning […]
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I like talking to strangers. I do observe the fine, intuitive line that tells me who wants to have a conversation and who does not. Pushing beyond that line is rude. That said, the weather always makes for a good opening or ‘did you see that?’ or ‘what do you like to read?’, as in my current job at a bookstore or simply “good morning!” Loneliness is the great affliction […]
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A Mixed List Of Interests, Obsessions and Pursuits Organized Generally But Not Purely By History, Nature, Poetry, Biography, Greece, Women, The Brits And The Sea, Fiction And Drama: This being a selection of the books I have read these past two years that may merit your attention; the titles have been culled from a much longer list. Among other things, I’ve spent the last 2 years trying to figure out […]
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