“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
Most of us think about events in terms of stories. We may not know the terms, but they take the form of a narrative structure of exposition, ignition, rising action, climax, aftermath, resolution – questions answered, endings ended, and time for the next narrative. That life does not really look like this doesn’t matter – much of the time we do not know how something begins or what sets the […]
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Ligaments cushion joints, tendons connect muscles to bones. Our skeletons keep us upright. Together, they give us movement, strength and flexibility. If they are torn asunder by accident or by torment, we come to a halt and sometimes collapse until, if we are lucky, surgery can repair the damage. In other words, we come apart at our seams. Every day seems to deliver more examples of the connective tissues of […]
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I have not listened to much music for years. Contemporary pop sounds like heaps of over produced, synth based slop, and streaming services, Spotify and its ilk, are one more expense, but a Times story on Patty Griffin that linked to some of her songs caused me to remember how much I liked her first album, Living With Ghosts and her big voice and that booming guitar and sharp lyrics. In listening to her again, […]
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Democracies do evil, directly, with malice aforethought, as the US did with slavery and the destruction of Native Americans and Jim Crow, or as a byproduct of terrible policies as we did in Vietnam and Iraq. However, healthy democracies have the moral and legal amplitude for reflection, correction and sometimes even redemption. We are no longer a healthy democracy and have not been so for some time. Now, as I […]
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