“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 There is no balance to be found in dead bodies made so by the malignant authority of another. There is no balance to be found in the dead bodies of Lorne Aherns, Philando Castile, Michael Krol, Michael Smith, Alton Sterling, Brent Thompson, Patrick Zamarripa. Cross the red line and everything falls out of balance. Murder is the red line. […]
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You Can Listen Here In the daily list of barbarisms which engulf us, the electronic surge coming in from every direction as if every mother’s son and daughter of us must meet the news alone on a sinking reef, this story does not even possess the weight of “the shadow of a shadow”,* but those actions we see with our eyes hold on to us and occupy our minds. They belong to the here and now, to the physical world. […]
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You Can Listen Here The fields are split by a thick tree line that runs their length. Life fills that line — deer escaping afternoon sun, groundhogs — nesting birds — cardinals, catbirds, indigo buntings, field sparrows whose song rising in pitch lifts the spirits, and a few days ago Luna put her nose to a turkey fledgling trembling in high grass whose frightened cheeps brought forth its mother who burst from invisibility two feet […]
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