“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 : “But there is also, I like to think or say, some madness there. …. How many people must have sailed out and vanished on the pacific before you found Easter Island? …. And why do you do that? Is it for glory? For immortality? For curiosity? And now we go to Mars. We never stop.” Svante Paabo from “Sleeping With The Enemy” by Elizabeth Kolbert from The New Yorker, […]
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For audio version click here : My 3 sections of seniors in 2010-2011 made up a part of my 36th graduating class, and for that reason, and because I knew my time with them would be my last time with any seniors, and because many were such gracious human beings, they created a space in my heart that endures. My thoughts turn to them now as they prepare to leave for school. I have some […]
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For audio version click here : Wall Street took a 520 point drop on Wednesday. Fifteen million people are looking for work in the United States, and that figure is probably low. Millions are underemployed. No one in business or government seems to know how to create jobs. The stench of despair coming out of Washington and the media capitols is rank and constant. Has there been a summer of such discontent since 1979? On […]
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For audio version click here : I don’t spend much time thinking about my death, in fact hardly any time at all, but I did share with my father a dread of nursing homes and the hellish loss of freedom and dignity we associated with them. I’d walk out naked into a blizzard at 2 A.M. and find a copse of trees where I could lie down and sleep until the coyotes found me before […]
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