“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
Pick up anything that fits the hand and I’ll bet you’ll toss it in the air or want to throw it as if you mean to strike a target. Twirl your arm in a circle like a propeller, your body the joint, as if your shoulder were the ball bearing it swings upon. Hold a ball and look for a tree or a post. Wind up, turn and let your […]
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From the vantage point of 67, I now see that our childhoods are fashioned more by emotion than thought, more by the moment that smashes into us than by any contemplation. The fundamental impulses of joy or disgust, fear or euphoria are immediate in their impact. They abide in memory. When I was very young, three moments forged a moral core in me that has never changed, one that I […]
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The past returns in ways you cannot predict. Matthew* was the son of a prominent doctor who was the star at the local Catholic hospital. They lived in a smart house in the only chic part of the county, a township of industrialists and lawyers and other doctors. His father was aloof, his mother brittle. The home was filled with crucifixes and portraits of Mary bounded by angels and Christ, […]
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The end of the world happens, is happening, has happened, is not so much a trick of the tongue as a matter of bad luck to have been born and lived in one place in a bad time. It is a semantic riddle except for those whose world has been consumed in fire. The end of the world comes for over 150,000 human beings every day, countless animals, who knows how many acres […]
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