“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 In the late 80’s my first wife and I were hurrying along at night on a side street near the Theater district somewhere near 8th Avenue; we had just been crudely accosted by two beggars, one joining another within the span of a block. Troll-like, they pushed themselves into our physical space and would not back off until, frightened and turning in a blind response to face them, I hunched […]
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For audio version click here Wyoming offers the relief of emptiness but Manhattan grants us the relief of crowds. Our 15 days out West gave us a taste of what life would be like lived under an immense sky and on an immense, essentially empty stage — my imagination could break free and fill that stage with every kind of weather and historical event. When we walked in raptor tracks at Red Gulch in the […]
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For audio version click here Often, I think, we want to set our sleepy lives on fire. Many of us live in our routines. Take out the dog, gobble breakfast, mindfully ignore the traffic driving to work, engage with our tasks, banter with our co-workers, glide home, take out the dog, kiss the spouse, try to pry out the kids’ stories, eat, drink a beer, sip wine, spend an hour or two gazing at some […]
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For audio version click here When Samuel, the Amish boy in the movie Witness, entranced, wanders over to the Angel of Mercy statue in Philadelphia’s 30th Street Station, the music rises. You know that a motif has been established. The music announces: here it is – pay attention to those who protect the wounded, who reach to assist those unable to help themselves. Ghostlike, the idea suggested by the statue appears in several images in the […]
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