“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 He did not know their names. James Holmes entered the theater in Aurora clothed in full SWAT gear; he was dressed for a play, not for the movie. He dressed for his part in the most recent theatrical production of I Too Will Be Famous or perhaps I Am GOD: I Take What I Please or maybe another title or some other vile claim floated through his incomprehensible mind. He […]
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For audio version click here I have never seen wings so vast and so near. The blur on the side of the road became something big moving against the bank and the brush. It rose, struggling, and became an enormous bird – a turkey vulture I thought at first, disturbed from road kill, but its talons hung low beneath its body with the weight of something. Turkey vultures cannot carry. Now I knew it was […]
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For audio version click here How many pounds per square inch of pressure does a lead pipe swung in a downward arc exert upon a human body? What about a night stick or a sap? A baseball bat? A wooden Coca Cola crate? A fist ramped up to speed by hatred, adrenaline and muscle? How about a work boot swung like a pendulum point on to a chest? A dog bite by a 90 pound […]
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For audio version click here Early in Pilgrim at Tinker Creek Annie Dillard describes looking carefully at leaves in mid-summer. Most of them had holes or jagged edges where they had been eaten. She remarked that all of us have had pieces chomped out; all of the living carry wounds. Moonrise Kingdom’s major characters, adults and children, have all been beaten up and dented. None are noble although some do noble deeds. All of them are failures in profound ways, but many rise to acts of genuine […]
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