“You can only defend yourself as the person you are attacked as.” Hannah Arendt 1941

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Dearest Brother, I find myself in a deplorably weak state owing to an injury that I took to my hind section in a skirmish over a bridge. It’s painful, but worse yet, very embarrassing. As opposed to the rectal aperture, when this wound oozes, it brings no relief. Thank God…

It occurred to me this morning that my worry will end when the thing I worry most about happening happens.

When I was twelve, I spent the first of three pleasant, albeit undistinguished summers at a camp for boys in Maine, playing basketball and tennis, water skiing, target and skeet shooting, navigating a canoe and learning how to tread water for a really long time. It was 1968. I was…

“Most Americans, whatever our adversities, historically have been luckier than many others, and the luckiest of us include the most fervent supporters of the belief that success or failure depends wholly on the individual.” James McConkey, What Kind of Father am I This of course is the bedrock of Rush…

The twentieth century opened on a world that was home to little more than a billion people and closed on a world of 6 billion, and every one of those 6 billion is using on average four times as much energy as their forefathers did 100 years before. This helps…

From beneath the mist I see a yellow candle by the bed flicker. . A voice whispers forget about accounting for what is and just be. . Everything I wished for once disappeared in the night like a giant freighter down a river of longing toward the horizon. . All…

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Musically, I must tilt my felt-tipped mallet to Robert Plant and Allison Kraus in the most unlikely pairing that, with the exception of two or three dirge-like songs, is brilliantly executed. Raising Sand is the lp and there are some stunning things to listen for, including a general compatibility that…