“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 Crossing the river into town this wet August provides glimpses of the brown river and of banks luxuriant with trees. I’ll take the flood over drought anytime. When I see weather reports coming out of the burning west or the smoldering mid-west, some primeval part of me comes to the fore, maybe the same feeling that caused our ancestors to awaken abruptly and look out beyond the fire into a […]
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For audio version click here I have a passing understanding of why some high school kids pitch their heads back into self-induced seizure-comas when their teacher announces that this term they will read X, Y or Z by “the greatest writer of the English Language.” They instantly imagine droning days of feeble readers delivering some crap about fussy men and women who cannot decide or who decide badly and all this in language that sounds as […]
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For audio version click here Do you have a conscience? Are you able to look back at your dark acts, see them anew and atone for them? At 17, 18 or 19 years of age, do you cherish your life? No strutting, ‘I’m so wonderful’ narcissism now — I mean, do you understand the delicacy of its construction, its reliance upon circumstance and chance for its breathing and breathless continuance? Do you recognize its value, the sweet nature […]
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For audio version click here Most of you who read this lead comfortable lives. You have never been hunted through an unforgiving wilderness by others who mean to kill you. Almost certainly, you have never had to face another in a struggle which will end in your death or his. I doubt that, through no choice of your own, you have ever been grievously hungry. Then as a senior in high school or a college […]
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