“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 sun in the open is very hot on the skin, almost searing, but underneath the big maple, its 96 degrees simply shuts down the activity of the busy, artificial world so that a reasonable quiet takes over – an occasional truck rattles by, an air-conditioner 100 feet away hums – nothing more. I like working in the heat. I am building another stone wall, a coiling serpentine structure to […]
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You Can Listen Here It sounds like a comic book sound effect – THAWPP – and the six foot roller slams into the side of your head, and down you go and the foam fills your ears and then up and into laughter at the Buster Keaton pratfall the sea just executed on you. Seven or eight of us are standing chest deep facing out to the open ocean 100 yards from the shoreline. […]
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You Can Listen Here No one does it alone. Not as a police officer, baker, cabinet maker, or teacher. Stepping back into time, we all can glance to our right and left and see the robust lives of those who went out of their way to teach us or whose solid presence and example provided the spur we needed to become more resilient and more attentive. Mr. Dobroskey, 1970 Whatever I accomplished as a […]
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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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