“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
I cannot not read. I’m sure there’s a study that describes why this is the case with me and the millions like me. I know that words, for me, are a most compelling spur to concentration, and that my imagination, my inner eye, my third eye, fills with images and thoughts and associations and memories, and that those are an elixir, especially when I sort them out with more […]
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Putin has waged a war against women and children and cities. He has called for the erasure of an independent country in the heart of Europe. His armies have pillaged and raped their way through Ukrainian territory. They have been stopped only by Ukrainian courage, resourcefulness and superior tactics. The Ukrainians have been kept alive by US leadership and by enormous waves of financial and military aid from other democracies. […]
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My favorite color has been yellow, the color of light, of sunflowers, the color that shows up across a valley in a coat, in a chickadee, but now blue has become the color that pops with such bright vigor because my cataracts are gone, and the blue sky is a wonder. My new lens invites in a blue I have not seen since childhood. The experts say it cannot last, […]
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The Greeks knew, and Shakespeare too, that tragedy is inevitable, and that it springs from our mortality, from our flawed characters and from our intersection with an inhuman, unforgiving natural world. Too often we follow our desires blindly and take actions whose full range of consequences we could never have foreseen. Too often, an accident will take its toll. Through a series of thoughtless and innocent choices, we end up […]
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