“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 am mourning Bill Russell, a man who helped break my teenage heart when basketball was often the center of my world, the player who, more than any other Boston Celtic, was the executioner of The Philadelphia 76er’s, my team. I am mourning him because I was probably secretly in love with him (and John Havlicek), a secret I had to keep to myself when the Sixers’ Wilt Chamberlain was […]
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I’ve never had a security detail of any kind let alone one of unsmiling men and women who surveyed every crowd I walked through and set up perimeters around my home and whom I knew were carrying semi-automatics they would use to kill to protect me. Liz Cheney and other members of the January 6 Committee have such Details because of the work they have been doing to uncover the […]
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As an article of faith, and thus perhaps as a hope for reconciliation, I believe that an affirmation of life in all its forms – man and woman, beasts wild and domestic, birds, forest, flower – was both the necessary element and logical principle keyed as a counterbalance to our species’ avarice and brutality and thus aligned to our survival as a species. This reasoning led me to being pro-life. […]
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“Each new morn new widows howl, new orphans cry, new sorrows strike heaven on the face …,”* and no one seems to pay for them. This is what the world feels like right now. Justice needs clear resolutions. It needs moral compensation. It requires the awful nature of terrible, purposeful choices to be described and the perpetrators held to account, to pay the cost of the suffering they have created. […]
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