“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 Driving the back roads of Berks County on Saturday, I saw fields that looked as if they had been placed under a broiler and cooked. When I left the Home some hours later, I walked into the physical force of a heat so intense that for a moment I slowed down and shielded my face, but even that heat was preferable to the cold, industrial lighting and sealed, airless rooms of […]
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For audio version click here In late November of 2007 I was looking forward to time off for Thanksgiving and to a big family dinner. I did not have to worry about my car being blown off its wheels as I traveled back and forth from school. I did not have to examine every person on the road for some hint of trouble — a cell phone taken out as I drove past, or a blank […]
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For audio version click here I may have to kill the rat but the skunk gets to live for a while. A few days ago the neighbor had his jungly two acre field next to our garden mowed, a close cropping done with fierce blades, chop-chop, and we think Rattus Norvegicus , the brown rat, running for its life, found safety with us. The garden is separated from our bird feeding area by a narrow driveway. On […]
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For audio version click here We are always surprised when they appear. Made disquieted by the times, we may sense their approach, but their terrible acts still shock us. How could this happen here? What makes them? Sometimes they walk out of that part of the American landscape made toxic and lethal by cratered hopes and ideological madness, or by racial or ethnic hatred. Some possess storm-ridden minds beset by visions of immortality, troubled by voices […]
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