“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 From the crest of the hill the road wound down and to the south before bending back toward the west. Meadows swept up the hills on both sides to woods. Mist rose from the trees. Above the ridges at the end of the valley dark clouds grew darker by the moment. The wind picked up. The storm was headed right for us, preparing to punch down the valley. I should have […]
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For audio version click here : Unintentionally, my mother sometimes speaks in koans, short, often paradoxical or mysterious images. On Saturday we sat side by side in front of a window in a multi-purpose room. I had drawn up the blinds so that the whole space of glass was free of obstruction — a large, luminous gray sky framed the parking lot and line of trees. I suggested we look for crows, a bird large […]
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For audio version click here : Comprised of park land and private estates, over 1400 acres of contiguous open space surround my home. We sit almost at the center of spidering webs of woods and fields. These animals make their home within the hidden spots of those hollows and ridges, — White Tail Deer, Coyotes, Fox, Cooper and Red Tail Hawk, Screech and Great Horned Owl, rabbit and raccoon, possum, skunk, groundhog, weasel, even a […]
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For audio version click here : But you can’t just sit down and do nothing while you see others suffer. There is more to life than just be safe. Omezzin Abu Srewil, Libyan medical student, explaining why she and her friends put their lives at risk helping fighters against Muammar Gaddafi. PBS News Hour, Wednesday, August 31, 2011: “Gaddafi Troops Reject Rebel’s Surrender Deadline” Those sentences may serve as an archetypal example of the best quality […]
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