“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
You Can Listen Here: This ends well but begins in a nightmare. For me, cruelty mated to rage produces a pathological mystery. I understand something of the sociology and psychology of the two, of how history, both personal and societal, will play a part in the brew. But the thoughtful nature of such actions, their premeditation, their choice by ‘normal’ individuals, leaves me with nothing but a blank inside, an emptiness I cannot see […]
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You Can Listen Here: I heard the call, a loud kwarrkk! from deep in the wetlands north of the field, where I had seen them disappear twice before — wingspreads too big for a crow, black undulations beating-beating, not gliding, nor the tips uplifted like vultures, but enormous and purposeful and all black. I want to believe they are here — wilderness birds — tricksters — the fields and woods suddenly alight with another layer […]
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You Can Listen Here: Thirty one months have passed since the beginning of the Presidential campaign of Donald Trump, through his nomination and his inauguration and now just short of a year in office. For me, and many others, the actions he and the Republican Congress take on a daily and sometimes hourly basis register as crushing, enraging, and overwhelming in their capacity to inspire dread. The most recent action being the passage of […]
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You Can Listen Here: Forty-eight hours sometimes yokes disparate experiences together that remind you there are people out in this ongoing mess of a Republic who deserve recognition and thanks. On Thursday we listened to a man tell us of being suspended by one Kevlar rope 150 feet below a Huey as it traversed the Chesapeake Bay~. On Friday a play that asks its actors for a supreme emotional and physical effort was enacted […]
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