“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 The teacher standing before the young knows their faces never change. Year by year they ache and dream the same desires — for wandering love to visit — for their ferocity to be settled and released — to please go; no please stay. They awaken to the searing happiness of all their senses all at once — precarious as a cataract of fresh-poured bronze. For years I stood and marked thousands who grew into weighing what they would make and become. […]
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You Can Listen Here In cooperation with the French, we must go into Syria with elements of the Marines and Army and eliminate the geographical safe haven of ISIS. The fundamental lesson of 9/11 is that the West cannot allow terrorists to occupy ground secure enough to train jihadis, gather men and resources and have the luxury of time to plot attacks like the one in Paris. That means sending Americans into war. Again. […]
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You Can Listen Here Under a luminous April sky, this, another small bounty for the soul — to sit on a Paris street drinking coffee and pulling a croissant to pieces slowly to make it last. The shopkeepers smiled, and the waiters. In the middle of the Rue de Honore we met a troupe of couples whirling through tangos, insisting on the goodness of life. Each day we followed the great curve of the […]
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You Can Listen Here Luna reclines on a windowsill keeping watch on the territory, her eyes flickering to movement — bird, leaf, walker, a grazing horse across the road. She ignores cars unless they belong to the Russian she first knew as a puppy and then rushes to the door and turns round and round in answer to her soft murmuring sounds. Wolfie looks up from under two perfectly positioned yellow eyebrows, a dog wondering about […]
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