“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 Right now the urge towards cynicism is so strong in me that I can hardly resist it. It is as if the moon has swollen to the size of Jupiter and moved so close to Earth I can look up at any time of day or night and feel its malicious power dominate my body and thoughts, the tidal flood so strong that I have the sensation of being wrenched off […]
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You Can Listen Here The hunchback has big shoulders and arms, and he stands about 5 and ½ feet tall now. His graywhite hair is long, his face open, and he smiles when he greets me. He is my age, maybe a year or two younger. He walks with a slight list to the left, the same side where the bone rises on his back. We share gym talk – how good it feels […]
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You Can Listen Here On the last night of a graduate course in the San Juan mountains of southern Colorado, Frank Bergon , our professor, told us that the “mountains will always be here,” by which he meant that many years after this time, we would find consolation in the idea of those mountains waiting for us, a permanent presence in our consciousness, a memory, yes, but more importantly, a reminder of an experience of simplicity […]
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You Can Listen Here Most Americans live lives almost wholly segregated by race. I am no different. I only want to understand what I have seen, what I now see, and what I think. The first black person I saw looked ancient, an old, old man in a suit and fedora almost curved into a crescent over a cane and struggling up the steps to my neighbor’s porch on the outskirts of Myerstown, Pennsylvania, […]
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