“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 looks directly into the camera, unsmiling, an unusual expression for a groomsman to wear. Why not a smile? He is so young. Sometimes his youth causes me to hold my breath. His gaze now carries across almost 80 years. All of his life awaits him. I still miss him. One of the reasons for my search for my fathers’ living presence in the past comes down to a question: […]
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For audio version click here Propelled by curiosity, I have loved books all my life. I gather information as I read; that doesn’t change, but more each fleeting day, I read to feel deeply, to be moved, to reach for a sense of being connected to others, some long dead, some who never existed except as characters in novels and plays. Literature, both fiction and nonfiction, now must offer a quality of heartfullness for me […]
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For audio version click here Nate Rice loves his work but since his work entails frequently visiting some of the wildest places on the planet, he has some very bad days. He has “raced up mountains in West Africa just ahead of the loggers “to collect bird specimens whose extinction is guaranteed. Some of these species never fly over “one hundred yards away from where they were born. They can’t just move.” He has seen […]
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For audio version click here Prologue: My mother phoned me at college. My father’s best friend, a State Police officer, had been killed while directing traffic at the Reading Air Show. A bus had struck him head on. That evening I called him, expecting to hear a vibration in his voice, the aftereffects of the shock, but he was calm; his concern was for me. I think he was trying to reassure me about my worry […]
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