“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 field next to us is for sale – 24 and ½ acres for $600,000. I have the same chance of walking on the surface of Mars as I do of touching that price. Someone recently wrote that “envy is the least pleasurable of the deadly sins”; well, I covet that land and will envy whoever levels the slopes and installs the same, stark carpets of grass and embeds some colossal, cheap, […]
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You Can Listen Here There are hundreds of stones left in the pile and summer is here, the light stays longer, and I can work in shorts and shirtsleeves; the energy I have must be burned and all those stones are ready, but I build to make something that is merely a pattern upon the landscape of the yard — unlike real craftsmen and women and unlike the farmers and their wives from the […]
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You Can Listen Here Each day a half-dozen neighbors walk or drive by the yard and stop to talk. Nothing of great substance is exchanged. Depending on the tenor of the relationship, we kid each other, share anecdotes about the weather, swap stories about recent visits we have made to other parts of the country. Joan will be riding horses descended from a Viking line in Iceland soon. Jack, an old friend, stops to […]
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You Can Listen Here The stars we can barely see with the naked eye have a magnitude of 6, the brightest a 1; using that astronomical device, the dim sun-light breaking through our clouds this dismal week might require a new number – a 7 or 8 at least, yet under the canopy of big trees and amidst the lush rain forest density of the understory, one walks into a place made expectant by […]
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