“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 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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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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