“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
To “suppress” means to forcibly end, to restrain, to stifle, hold back, deaden. Suppress is a transitive verb. The action transits to the direct object of suppression. To suppress the vote requires someone to suppress. It requires a reason to suppress. Lots of white people believe they are going to be replaced by “colored” peoples, black or brown mostly. These white people vote almost exclusively Republican. Therefore, to keep their place, or so […]
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We can make stories from anything. From last night’s expected unsettled sleep filled with a dream of volcanoes withdrawing their fire, the cones going dark like eyes closing over a fever. Then add something as aimless and common as a fox’s scream from the edge of a wood at first light. Yet morning is here again, there are good bagels to eat with Maine Blueberry jam, the big windows let […]
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When I read the jury has returned a verdict, I get out of the house, grab the trowel and walk a straight line to the southeast garden that gives up to Spring first. I haven’t touched it this April. Withered stalks have trapped layers of leaves and cheatgrass and carpetweed are obeying their pathology, their roots already deep, their filaments seeking out fresh space in broad circles. It feels good to wrench them out, beat the good soil away and flip […]
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I had written material for teaching — lesson plans and reports and speeches and other similar kinds of forms and records, but I began writing for another purpose in earnest in January of 2011, a few months before I retired. I knew that teaching had released many things in the uncertain, timid boy I had been that I had never felt before, and two of them were a need to […]
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