“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 We might have been a half mile away from another human being, a big deal here in packed southeastern Pennsylvania. In the middle of a grassy field between two square sections of high corn — the dogs, the clouds blinking the sun open and closed, a good breeze running through the grass and stirring the corn and cooling us. For a few fine seconds I am able not to think. […]
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You Can Listen Here Almost every day I come across a sentence, an image, a line of poetry, or a sharp piece of dialogue, and I try to remember it. The inclination to think in terms of how I might use it in a classroom lesson has never left me. I turn down pages, underline, write in margins, tear newspapers to pieces and stack fragments on my desk for later use. Sometimes I add […]
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You Can Listen Here On one walk only Luna found the snake skin next to the water, a three foot brown length of material as delicate as fine wrapping paper, Wolfie found a small bone at the base of the swamp maple, scratching at it to uncover it from the leaves, and I picked up white pellets and fingered them loose of their fine dried dust and held balls of fur and a crush of […]
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You Can Listen Here Cashmere weighs about 30 compact pounds, and until released from restraint into the fenced pasture at the Refuge, she had been shut down, a wired torpedoed muscle, a girl who ignored the person who held the end of her leash; she only wanted to move forward, head as rigid as a carving, an image of aloof, determined energy. Pits seem especially sensitive dogs, more prone to a kind of kennel […]
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