“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
For audio version click here The news anchor, barely masking her agony, asked the experts to explain. The two men were stunned but controlled; they were attempting to account for the end of the world. One said that mass school shootings are “extraordinarily rare”; the other that schools are among “our safest places”. Both assertions appear to be true, but no parent this weekend cares about whether statistics bear out these claims; no parent cares […]
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For audio version click here Let your imaginations wheel in from those galaxies millions of light years away to a moment of ease – you are lying on your back on warm grass on a late spring morning. Cumulus clouds drift southwest above you. The morning ticks by in concert with their passage. This is one way we measure time; we can actually feel its progress in cadence with the movement of individual clouds and […]
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For audio version click here Out of the gym and into the fog and a dying, damp and raw light. Grey sky. Deep charcoal concrete. Black-brown vacant, wet trees. This is the kind of night I thought when even a cave with a small fire would be a thankful shelter. I turned on the radio. I’ve been listening to the classical music station lately. Notes from a violin rose from the speakers.* The notes spiked […]
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For audio version click here Stopped at a light this morning, I turned to see a woman about my age with a swirling tattoo on her neck beating out a song on her steering-wheel. I knew nothing about her. I doubt that I will never see her again. Why is she important? Somewhere in Sweden a Somali engineer admitted to the country as a political refugee is seated in a language class watching snow fall […]
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