“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 A realist Western, even feral, The Homesman has no welcoming forts in Indian Country or John Wayne as an honorable officer set there with Union Cavalry of humorous Irish and courtly Southern persuasion, nor does it have Maureen O’Hara and other soldiers’ wives who run the place with a no nonsense mannerly toughness. In the Nebraska territories of The Homesman, townswomen dry up into hatchet-eyed gossips and the frontier women go […]
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You Can Listen Here This is the twenty-fifth iteration of this list, twenty three of those for graduating seniors over twenty three years, the twenty-fourth in March of 2013 . My last class graduated four years ago. My audience has changed. So has my reading. I have little patience anymore for light reading. I know good mysteries and thrillers are out there, but I just cannot read them — something in them no longer clicks into place […]
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You Can Listen Here First, let me thank you Molly, Maddi, Matt, Megan, Olivia, Lyons and Sydney, Sean, Vincent, Victoria, Brandy and Bobby, Abby, Alicia, Amy and Cole, Kalie and Tyler for taking the time to thoughtfully respond to the issue of torture. I will answer your observations by reacting to sentences from your remarks. I apologize that I am unable, one by one, to give you individual replies. Quotations 1 to 7: “Some […]
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You Can Listen Here The French Creek is frozen bank to bank but for the dams where it spills out from under the ice. Fox cross it and raccoon. Tonight the ice will grow so thick that deer will try it. Three mornings ago it was 4 degrees here when I filled the bird feeders in the dark. I keep them stocked all day. Birds, like us, are endothermic. Our warm blood needs food to […]
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