“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 Partially deaf, Willie half-shouts “eighty three” when I ask him his age. He has just hunched up from the rope machine where I watched him hand over hand pull down a hawser to his count of 100. He smiles at me. We shake hands and he asks again, as per our pattern, “Howm I doin”? “Like a million dollars”, I say. He smiles broadly, this short hobbity man who has […]
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You Can Listen Here: VN810595 The rush of air came from behind, from the thin line of the stream at a curve into deeper woods. I caught a moment, a flash immediately inscribed on the memory circuits, of a Great Blue Heron angling up, long wings side-extended in that wonderful pterodactyl imitation they do. Then it was gone, low along the water. The next day, another stream, the dogs belly deep, […]
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You Can Listen Here Loop the leash to your left wrist. This is the first step in faith: verify, then trust. Gently lock the right arm under the jaw and rest the hand on Petey’s flank where it might assure him that again, finally, all is right in the world outside his run. This is an embrace. Use the left hand to stroke his jaw and head and control any lunges which may come as he seeks […]
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You Can Listen Here The long climb over unshaded slickrock under a Utah sun seems to make many hikers sulky and prone to griping once they reach Delicate Arch , as if they are thinking “One more natural wonder. Why do we have to walk so far to photograph it?”, but the surprise that greets us today is one that lifts spirits and might banish cynicism for days at a time. Under Delicate Arch, whose corner bears […]
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