“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
This is the season when we dream on resurrection. We think of those who are gone and wish them with us if only for a meal or conversation .. or for one night. If they are far enough away in time, our memory begins to lose them — their voices, especially, but the quicksilver, mercurial wonder of them, the ways that the smallest shifts in their posture or expression made […]
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I am a dog man and have been since I was 4 or 5 when a big hound wandered into our yard and my mother fed him a pot of stew. I watched him gulp it up, this marvelous, vivid creature, not me or of mine own array of the familiar alive, but somehow kin. When she told me, days later, that he had been hit and killed by a […]
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The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is being readied by the Trump administration and oil and gas corporations to be explored for energy deposits . ANWR lost its protection in the same Republican Tax Bill that further enriched American oligarchs and corporations. ANWR is roughly the size of South Carolina. There are no roads. Only a handful of people, grandfathered in by the original preservation Bill, continue to live there. I will never travel there, […]
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As the President sinks into the mire of his own creation, gurgling of conspiracies and witches, growing smaller with each tweet, we might turn our attention to the good man who has haunted him, Robert Mueller, a Marine decorated for heroism , a public servant, the hunter of Noriega, John Gotti and the Flight 103 Lockerbie killers, FBI director as appointed by both a Republican and Democrat, and now at 72 silently gathering evidence, […]
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