“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 theoreticians of the German Staff called it “the feel of the cloth”; this was their description of the tendency of men on the attack to close the distance between themselves so that they finally walked shoulder to shoulder towards the enemy position. German, French and Russian tactical directives called for men on the attack to keep a minimum distance of three yards between themselves. No bunching up. A French ‘Human […]
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You Can Listen Here I saw her skate across the glaze of water. All in one movement, arms out for balance, she bent, pushed off her left foot and skimmed for three or four feet before stopping. She came back and did it again. Her mouth thinned to a line in concentration. I walked into her peripheral vision. She shook her head, embarrassed, and smiled. We were alone. I too smiled and set my items on the counter and […]
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You Can Listen Here Beginning in April of 1789, William Bligh sailed over 3600 miles in a 23 foot cutter. Eighteen men from the Bounty, cast off by Fletcher Christian, accompanied him. At its center the boat was six feet wide and was overloaded; seven inches of freeboard separated them from being swamped. They endured terrible storms, enormous waves, chilling sea-cold nights, a relentless sun, hunger, thirst, boils. Forty eight days later they arrived in Timor in what […]
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You Can Listen Here Two dragonflies flew just above us. Catching the sun, their wings looked like translucent, metal sheaves. They too are migrating now; vast clouds of them, invisible to us, are moving south along with warblers and hummingbirds and eagles. No one knows where they go. We walked in big, flexible circles in the fields under a sun that had just the right, sharp edge to its heat like a blade on the […]
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