“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 : At a little more than 600 feet in elevation, the high school where I teach (for a few more days) sits atop one of a series of ridge lines that run east to west. From the Delaware line west and north these ridge lines rise and fall with the regularity of waves. I can see the rise of the next ridge to the south west, where I live, and […]
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For audio version click here : I like crows. A family of a dozen or so live on our ridge line. They come to our bird feeding areas, careful to stay at least 40 or 50 feet away from the house. Two or three will drop to the ground and walk with that funny, Charlie Chaplin flatfooted gait. At least one remains in the trees, the lookout. When I put binoculars on them, the iridescence […]
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For audio version click here : June 7, 2011: 1 This thought struck me when I was driving home on a November Saturday night this year after attending my 40th High School reunion. It had to do with luck and blind chance. Whatever I believe about my own choices and will power bringing me relatively unscathed through the past 40 years is, I think, mostly mythological. In having spoken to ½ dozen men and women […]
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