“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 : ‘We are as much as we see.” Thoreau’s Journals I am beginning to look for another way of life, maybe another job, but most of all another way to see. Everyone knows that a job is almost never just a job but a whole network of relationships, routines and duties and new skills to learn and therefore the entranceway into another kind of life. I am almost 59, and […]
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For audio version click here : The golden retriever, easily 100 pounds, bolted up from the stream directly at Wolfie who turned and ran as if possessed, his howl a continuous rending call I was aware of all the time I chased them roaring “No, no, no, no.” Behind me I could hear someone shouting “Rusty no, Rusty, no.” The retriever was fat and older. That saved Wolfie. I once saw our neighbor’s big red […]
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For audio version click here : Our home is small, 123 years old and was constructed for $123. One photograph left by a previous owner shows it sometime after 1930. There are no trees anywhere around an obviously abandoned building that was later converted into a vacation cottage. Now two sycamores stand on either side of our front porch. Both are about 60 feet tall; both were probably planted at the same time. If given […]
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For audio version click here : My mother has blue hands. I think she keeps looking at her hands, but maybe she’s looking at her blue pants when she keeps saying “Do you think it’s darker?” For two hours she repeats this theme, a loop she is as locked into as completely as if it were an instinct. “Which is darker?” or “Do you think it’s darker?” She does not know who I am. She […]
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