“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 swallows skim close to the surface of the knee high Johnsongrass and thistle, swallowing the insects rising with the sun’s morning heat. Six weeks after heavy plowing tore the fields apart, they have come back filled with green and with life. However, now about 80% of the ground is covered by either Canadian Thistle, Ragweed or Johnsongrass, plants whose unusually deep root systems give them an advantage in recolonizing […]
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You Can Listen Here A love of History begins with a picture. The picture weds us to amazement — this action happened before I was born. Human beings as real as I feel saw this. What does it mean, we say? What else happened, we say? Maybe it begins with a picture like this: He somersaults, a startling act in these wrenching seconds. This image catches something inside the memory of the American bomber […]
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You Can Listen Here We all have less hair but still a ropy strength in our bodies, veins riding over muscle, and our energy endures, but with more control now, the capacity to stop and listen, a quality we might have earned in age’s wearing away of fantasies and youthful musings, and through the long, painful deaths of some we loved. Sometimes an attentive silence is the only respectful response — attention, to any poor blasted friend, must be […]
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You Can Listen Here Hightailing it through the high grass and high sun, off track, water mad, ducking under the low branches of trees, the dogs avalanche down the cut bank to the stream and, I know, stand chest deep waiting for me to bring rocks. They will chase them (and seashells and frisbees) until collapse, but dog paradise is found in the water of a shaded section where I submit to their command […]
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