“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 Up two hours before sunrise to see the Perseids, but the ambient light from outdoor vapor lamps dimmed the bowl of sky and made me think hooligan thoughts about taking a hammer to those bloody lamps and smashing every one, and then moving south to Eagle and Lionville and Exton and passing over like an avenging spirit until every unnatural light adjoining this spot had been banished and stars alone might dazzle. Hooligan thoughts and […]
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You Can Listen Here Defying gravity the dot rested in mid air three feet from the grass under open sky. It did not hover nor waver. It did not move. It was alive. I had to bring my face to within a foot and then closer to configure it, to ‘see’ it — a tiny spider, shaped like half a throwing star with legs, a quarter the size of my thumbnail. It hung from […]
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You Can Listen Here These days, who finds anyone admirable in the course of one experience? The media universe is drowning in celebrity selfies and other nonsense; giraffe killers; anti-climate-change gun crazies; absurd politicians; ranters and cynics of every stripe. Every kind of ephemera, in one way or another, seems to be trying to position itself as enduring. Watch The Salt of the Earth and you come across a person who has lived his life traveling to wretched and beautiful places so as to […]
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You Can Listen Here Most children are no longer “brought up by hand”, the Victorian era being long past, and many parents, by and large, have made their children the centers of their lives, but Pip may still show us to never underestimate the secretive nature of children, their watchful, observant presence among adults, and how easy it can be to patronize or intimidate them. Their sense of injustice can be acute, but we […]
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