“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 Harry Lime’s charming brutality and selfishness does not set down a direction in life to anything except a boatload of enemies, a vacant heart and a probable early death. And who do you know who remains unmoved by the happiness or tragedy of strangers, of those “dots”? I would bet that number to be small. We seem to carry the seeds, at least, of a desire to bind ourselves to others we […]
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For audio version click here For 100 years history has been able to approach us sifted through movies, and the twentieth century especially produced devils of every kind for both movies and history to brood over. In The Third Man * the devil is neither dragon nor serpent; he wears no horns. He complains of indigestion. He has a beautiful lover. Harry Lime (Orson Welles) is the liveliest fiend in this firmament, a rubble-strewn 1950 Vienna. He dazzles us, and yet […]
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For audio version click here The Marine used to work out at my gym. Hello led to conversations. I sat with him a couple of times at the local library to help him with retirement and government paperwork. We became friends. He is 6’3″ tall, a 6th degree black belt in karate, 62 years old and wears his white hair long and shaggy. His body is veiled in Marine Corp tattoos. Two teardrop tats loom out […]
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For audio version click here The streaks of light are only beginning to cut divides in the southeastern sky when I lumber out most mornings to arrange the feed and check the water. Almost always, a breeze is striking the yard from the north. Pulling my heavy collar around my throat, I do my chores — sunflower seed and thistle to be poured into feeders and draped across the ground and an old picnic table; suet to be dropped […]
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