Nullius in verba
American government and politics look more and more like the three-layer structure of the internet as described in the September AARP Bulletin out last week. That’s part of the reason why it is increasingly difficult for citizens to understand what their government is doing. Most of us live in a distracted vacuum dominated much of […]
Memoirs of the great gifts : the miracles of kindness, geode midnights: the universe a cave of stars securely filled with Eros, photosynthesis, the unimaginable delight of light, of warmth of any kind, body peace, dawn thrill, sweet death when you need it. Miracles of kindness, of someone knowing what you need to hear and […]
It’s still amazing to me after all these years how the vast amusement park of the news can distract us so thoroughly from the most intimate life and death matters. Even when you say it directly — we are more interested in the freak shows of Trumpian politics than we are in the purity of […]
Some hot afternoons when the battlefield of the news is filled with butt ends of breaking follies, you can hear flies buzzing all over American political culture. Swarms of gnats teeming with Trumpian hubris drive many of us to silly states of raging impotence or whimpering escapism. It truly is the chaos of bedlam. Some […]
Some well-educated and thoughtful friends of mine are so offended by President Trump and his cronyocracy that they say our system of government is broken beyond repair. The graft, corruption, news twisting, propaganda, the president’s seeming imperviousness to the rule of law and his administration’s environmental atrocities and abysmally inhumane immigration policies have made our […]
I. THE CHACO WAY Giving his life its head, mind riding thermals over the cliffs where nothing ever goes wrong, the perfectly what is detects him like raven’s shadow fast across a ridge. Fear thins out. Nacre skin, fossil Aphrodite’s perfect blush appears so touchable her knees smooth into stone, and he hears himself say […]
In a world of climate extremes, when there’s nothing left to do, you adapt or go extinct. For humans, adaptation is about being mentally and culturally agile, about thinking clearly and acting cooperatively. The way for us in our communities to survive the roulette of climate change disaster is to partner up and think clearly […]