“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 Coming west from Monument Valley on a Sunday, we crest a desolate rise and Las Vegas appears cupped under a haze that makes it seem as if the smoke of a fire has been trapped under glass. On cue, the traffic flow increases in volume, all of us suddenly caught in a 75 mph clip as if snatched up by a maelstrom, and we all hurtle into the city. Every design of […]
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You Can Listen Here I have never seen one. I turned my head and it was there, soundless, its head elevating and stopped when it saw my movement. We matched each other in stillness. It broke first, chancing a slow slow crouch up from the pond where it had been hunting peepers and frogs. Streaked in brown stripes, it matched the grass, and only its closeness brought it home to my eyes. It raised […]
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You Can Listen Here The dogs are twin furnaces who must be fed. Whatever the weather, each morning we go out for a long time. They must run. They must think. Almost no one walks in the rain. Hundreds of acres at a time are left wide open for us. We see so much, but birds, birds more than anything. Here, nuthatches, starlings and gray squirrels are nesting in the catalpa. Twenty feet away, […]
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You Can Listen Here They came steadily. A couple or one person would appear at the door minute by minute. In the early morning, at lunch or after dinner, they came in bunches. There are 1100 registered voters in this precinct of Warwick Township. It is overwhelmingly Republican. Almost ½ of them appeared today, up from 18% for the 2012 Primary. Very few smiled as they walked to the registrar’s table — they might […]
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