“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 After watching the cold, corporate, politician’s logic of Chip Kelly at his press conference last week — only bodies matter, not names, only control, power and money matter, not loyalty or grace — it felt like a relief to see another game afresh after so long. The years pass and something put away quickens again. Basketball remains for me the best of games. Harvard beat Yale at the Palestra on […]
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You Can Listen Here As lovingly tended as any cathedral, the Voyagers’ “65,000 separate parts”* were assembled by human hands alone. Launched in August and September of 1977, Voyager 1 and 2 are the fastest objects ever created. They took photographs and collected data from Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Because of their work, we know that Europa , a moon of Jupiter, hides an ocean beneath its ice surface that contains more liquid water than […]
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You Can Listen Here Eighteen geese walking on the water of French Creek, the ice an inch or so below the surface, a herd of many deer breaking from a grove of pine for the safety of dense wetlands, no birds, nothing in this dry and bluest of Pennsylvania skies, and the dogs roaming the fields of unbroken snow but being Borders always turning back to me, watching my hands and body. When I […]
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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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