“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: The Apostles had many doubts. One yearned to place his hand within the wound so as to believe. One denied Him three times when He most needed aid. They were often thick, too worried, lacking confidence. But they also saw the dead rise from dirt floors; a roof torn away, a suffering body lowered to Him, the sick man, healed, walk out the door; the astonishment of the loaves and […]
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You Can Listen Here: Many years ago, in a movie theater that has since closed, in a part of my life that feels as if some one else had lived it, we were waiting in the lobby for the doors to open. We were part of a crowd, more than a hundred in a small space. I do not remember the movie, only that it was one that was ‘hot’. Abruptly, behind us, a […]
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You Can Listen Here: At 24 the natural world opened for me like the door in the Arabian Nights, and I stepped out of some kind of heedless space made of inattention into the forms of this life made up of animals and weather and landscape and sky. At 24 I spent 6 weeks in Montana in the Beartooth Mountains, and I read Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard. Montana taught me how to be awestruck and Dillard how […]
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You Can Listen Here: It is a relief to write about something beautiful. Nothing else looks like a scarlet tanager . This is only the second I have ever seen. Emerging into a small clearing from deep woods, quiet and slowing to look up, it caught my eye 40 feet high on a broken branch of an ash tree. Scarlet and raven black. It hop-flew from branch to limb to the crown and away. The male tanager […]
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