“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 Just before all this waiting life breaks out is the time to see where to look. The long, dry grasses crushed to the ground by the snows are soaking up March warmth and holding it for the herd of deer who gather here below the crest at night. Their pellets are everywhere. Place your hand to the flattened turf and a low heat rises to meet it. A fox has […]
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You Can Listen Here On February 20, birds of several species began their morning territorial songs here. Red Wing Blackbirds have been back at the Park for more than a month — Robins too in large flocks that materialize on lawns and vanish. With the exception of a dreadful two weeks of mud-skies in December, the Sun this winter has been out more than normal. The news continues to be crazy, but I feel […]
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You Can Listen Here Some force from a center began to whirl us outward. I do not know where it started — perhaps with FDR and the New Deal. Maybe with the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Maybe it goes back and farther back to our origins, to a flaw in the Constitution, and all this time has been picking up speed and expanding from the core. Our political systems and their ability […]
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You Can Listen Here Gather together one hundred teachers who have worked in the same two buildings. Add food and drink. Make it a celebratory evening — two of their own are retiring. Make it personal. It is personal. These people are one tribe. Not they. We. I am one of them. We share stories and worries, we run along the same lifeline of rumors, and we know the names of the families and […]
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