“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
Y ou Can Listen Here It is the Christmas Season and all the nests have come out in the Field, in its wildways (yours too somewhere near you, in woodlots and city wild spots). The hidden places have been made bold. A cardinal’s nest and a sparrow’s and high up in a tree close to the road, big as a box, a crow’s nest, unknown until now (for in Spring they go quietly back […]
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Y ou Can Listen Here The curse of the teacher who remembers the faces that came through the years of his classrooms is that those lives so directly translate to the faces of children in danger, and all those pictures call forth a protective fury and a desire for justice that is raw and stands right next to vengeance. When I look at the children of Aleppo, I see my students, not their faces but their […]
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Y ou Can Listen Here Hedgerows does not seem accurate enough, and I am unaware of another name for them, so this one will do: wildways, a derivation of highways and wild, the strands of hedges, vines, trees, brambles, and old rock fences that skirt and sometimes divide fields. They are the paths for all creatures wild to go from point a to b. They are habitat, food source, hunting arena, nesting spot, shelter, […]
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Y ou Can Listen Here On November 27 Trump tweeted that “In addition to winning the Electoral College in a landslide, I won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally.” Within days the uncertain “millions” became 3 million as pushed by the loose affiliation of devotees and propagandists that make up the world of Trump true believers and trolls. Why 3 million? Because Clinton’s lead in the popular […]
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