“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 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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You Can Listen Here Crow-sized, the Cooper in the small tree turns *her small head left, then straight ahead one, two, three, four twitchy times before she chooses, launches, turns a full silhouette towards me, wings extended, threading branches, cutting onto the snow, small birds scattering like shrapnel. Her talons empty — back to a worktable, to the top of a birdhouse, to the tree again. She hunts the yard and the tangled field […]
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