“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
The Democrats are taking power in the House and preparing the long process of choosing a candidate to nominate for President, Trump is beginning year 3 of his tenure and Robert Mueller continues to push forward on his mob-boss, Russian infiltration, obstruction of justice investigation. Now is as good a time as any, before the heat becomes even more intense, for us to try to figure out in black […]
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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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