“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 It is best to begin from above and from before. You have the photograph of the High School as it appeared before the additions and renewal of the late 90’s. Originally opened in 1957 on a high field and woodland, by the late 70’s it had recovered some of its green feel. Look at the trees that surround its wings and crowd the space between them. The classrooms had huge […]
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You Can Listen Here On July 16, 1945 thunderstorms and lightning had rolled into Socorro County and into its mountains and deserts, once the territory of Apaches — Victorio, Cochise and Geronimo had once used the San Mateo mountains as a refuge. In good years the ‘Southwest Monsoons’ begin in the last week in June and extend into July, and thunderstorms in July and August bring more rain to New Mexico; nature has adapted […]
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You Can Listen Here Late in Hitch-22 *, Christopher Hitchens introduces the story of a 23 year old American soldier who was killed by an IED in Iraq in January of 2007. This young man** had doubts about the war and was a graduate of one of our best universities and thus could have avoided any intimate connection with its dangers and on-the-ground reality. He volunteered and pursued a combat role because, as he wrote […]
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You Can Listen Here Coming up the path from the beach, he begins to emit a subdued mewling, and he is limping. He stops and allows me to run my hands over his body and pads. One was knotted in his fur and pressing into his belly, and the other had clenched itself just below a nail where it dug deeper with every step. I slowly pried loose two ‘hitchhiker’ seed pods, these belonging […]
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