“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 In Ireland in 1976, 13 years after the event, my friend and I saw twin photographs in almost every home where we were invited in for tea and buttered bread; in either the kitchen or sitting room, the Pope and John Kennedy looked down at us. In Ireland Kennedy had become the martyred saint. For many years he filled that position for our family too. I remember this about his […]
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You Can Listen Here It takes both arms and the leaning weight of my body to stop Jake when he begins to run. He weighs at least 150 pounds and probably more. He has come a long way since he landed at the Refuge. Day by day the slow care and affection of many volunteers and of the owner have made him more tractable. When you step into his run, he greets you by leaning into you […]
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You Can Listen Here First, let me dispel any romance. Luna threw up in the back of the car on the way down, and faithful Wolfie ate it all. Once we had begun walking, the dogs ate every deer pellet and horse apple they could find. Seduced by the turds of the mysteries, they ran deliriously from spot to spot, rolling and gobbling. Luna found something disgusting on a low foot bridge, swirled her […]
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You Can Listen Here Begin with the adjectives: cervical, thoracic, lumbar. Move to the nouns: the laminae, the pedicles, the transverse processes. Now go to numbers and letters: C3, C5, T8, T10, L1, L2. Stretch your arms behind you. Bend them. Press your fingers onto your vertebrae, your pillar and post, your steadfast companions, bones so durable they may survive your flesh by hundreds of years. Stand up. Walk. Kneel. Crouch. Arise. Snap your […]
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