“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
A Beast: With the parks closed, I walk anywhere I can find space for the dogs and me. A mile stretch of back road takes us along wetlands and meadows that fall to the French Creek. I keep my head turned in their direction both coming and going, and I let my eyes drift for movement. I remember a movie I watched long ago, a black and white WW II […]
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Especially now, I remember that I am an animal and have spent all my life with others of the species. At the Pet Food store, some of the employees are under stress. Yesterday a customer came up and stood within a foot of another in line, was asked to please step back and instead went into a cursing tirade about “her rights” and the “fing stupidity of all this standing […]
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Now is the time to write your stories. Do you really think another branch of your life later on will present more opportunity? If you do not record what you have witnessed, what you have seen and heard, the multifarious panoramas of your existence, who will? First, simply accept that your memories and your present life have stories worth recording and remembering. Do not argue with yourself. Do not assert […]
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There are some Mennonites in Lancaster County who believe the Virus is a product of the Democrats and the Chinese cooking it up in a lab and releasing it so that Joe Biden can choose Hilary Clinton for his running mate and thus take down Trump. I kid you not. Because Tennessee has been so late in recognizing the seriousness of the Virus (along with Georgia, Florida, Mississippi, Alabama, Texas, […]
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