“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 Dexter is still here, as powerful as ever, but better trained now, less wild, more capable of concentrating, sitting, staying. He can trot next to my left leg like a reasonable dog. He no longer jumps up and tries to settle those bear-sized paws on my chest, eager to get to the face and lick. He has acquired a dash of manners. After the volunteers have finished the morning walks, […]
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You Can Listen Here I have been thinking a great deal about how much time I have left. For well over a year, no, longer, this has been a musical undercurrent to most of my thoughts, a faint melody. Sometimes, the tune vanishes completely — on sunny days with the dogs running alongside when I can reach a full stride over even ground, or when I smoothly hoist a big rock and carry it […]
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You Can Listen Here All great painters do this, I think, but right now I am in love with O’Keefe who I hear in my imagination telling me, “Here is one more way to see.” For her, form and color are everything. Not the thing itself as denoted by name – mesa, cottonwood, stars, clouds, courtyard, apple, plain, flower – but the solidity, shape, arrangement and hues of what she watches and then paints. […]
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You Can Listen Here It took one day. On Friday morning we maneuvered out of Santa Fe and north toward Abiquiu, the site of Georgia O’Keefe’s Ghost Ranch . We found our way through winding and narrow streets and into a flow of commuter traffic; I remained focused on driving. Moving faster now, other cars left us. The windshield emptied of distractions. We came over a rise, and immediately, in one moment, the desert light undid all its […]
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