“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 They did not know it was a manganese stain. They did know it chipped off and left a rich sandstone base beneath, the perfect surface. No one knows who in all these tribes made the figures — the Archaic Peoples, the Ute, the Anasazi, the Navajo; shaman, warrior, weapon-maker, young men or women on a lark. Some go back 2000 years. The three figures we saw high on the east […]
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You Can Listen Here And the LORD set a mark upon Cain, lest any finding him should kill him. 16 And Cain went out from the presence of the LORD, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden. Genesis, 4: 15-16 King James Bible Today I drew from memory the kinds of kids I taught for 36 years: white kids of various ethnicities — Irish, Russian, Italian, Portuguese, Scottish, Brits, French; then […]
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You Can Listen Here As with so many of my age, Ali’s death prompted memories, but for me too, an ambivalence I did not feel as a young man. Ali (then Clay) had entranced me. He delighted me. His other-worldly athleticism and his supreme confidence seemed like a spellbound thing to me, an awkward 11 year old, a shy kid, just beginning to handle a basketball. I did not see his blackness, just as I […]
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You Can Listen Here A few days in Monument Valley is not enough time to separate what the eye sees from what the movie eye remembers. One would have to be Navajo or a white man like Harry Goulding who drove sheep here before WW I, and on his return bought 640 acres, a square mile, for $340, the only white man to own land in 1.7 million acres of the Navajo Rez. He saw this land when […]
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