“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 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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You Can Listen Here The essential nature of things is to accumulate, both physically and virtually – the virtual world promises a counterfeit wider world –touch a key and ‘see’ anything, anywhere, and the physical world sometimes seems plunged so deeply into random piles and displays of unused possessions – furniture, papers, electronic gadgets — that one achieves a state of wonder as to how much could be gathered by a few people, as […]
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