“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 Geography becomes home when we no longer need a map to find our way. I can close my eyes and see another landscape converted into working memory. St. Francis Drive, which is also 84 and 295, curves around the west side of Santa Fe and St. Michael’s drive cuts into it. Take St. Michael’s west to the Old Pecos Trail and you reach Tony’s cut off street. Over the mountain lies St. John’s College , […]
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You Can Listen Here Look down. Do not look for the top. Count breaths. Slow steps, steady progress. Shift hands at the landing, right to left. Ignore the crowds. Ignore everything else except the feel of the weight of the bag, balanced, placing a lovely strain on the lats and pecs and the forearm muscles. Up one step, the next, never stop until the long corridor to the next terminal opens up like a […]
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You Can Listen Here A friend has died. This is what we saw, now, and long ago. In an airy, light-filled space, the main sanctuary of a synagogue near a large Midwestern city, his three children told stories about D as he had been as a father. When his oldest daughter did her residency in the busiest emergency room in the city, he came, sat amidst the chaos of all that speed and blood […]
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You Can Listen Here August 11, 1965: Rioting broke out in Watts in Los Angeles after a confrontation between Los Angeles police and a black motorist being arrested for drunk driving. The looting and fires went on for six days. They resulted in 34 deaths, over 1000 injuries, and the destruction of over 2000 stores.* August 18, 1965: Fifty two marines died in the battle of Van Tuong in Vietnam. The number of American […]
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