In a Dark Time … The Eye Begins to See

not taken today. Well, technically speaking it was the trail not taken, but even prose writers are allowed poetic license when it comes to producing a headline. You’d think that after hiking Pt Defiance Park’s trails for over a year I’d know all the trails by now. You’d be wrong. I proved that again today [...]

Following up on an earlier posting about Chechnya, I was pleasantly surprised to find an in-depth article about Russia’s reaction to the Beslan massacre at The Christian Science Monitor and another viewpoint at alt.muslim. For me the most ominous note in the Monitor article was the one that noted that “Critics charge that the brutality [...]

While others adored Simon and Garfunkle’s “The Sounds of Silence,” my favorite song on the album was always “I am a Rock:” I am a Rock A winter’s day In a deep and dark december; I am alone, Gazing from my window to the streets below On a freshly fallen silent shroud of snow. I [...]