Posts Tagged with ‘Essays’
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Blue Angels and Flying Turtles
05 Oct 2012It has come again, that time of year in San Francisco. It promises to be crisp and blue, against…
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Non Cooperation With Evil: Looking Back
04 Oct 2012An enormous human mystery that has gripped me since the day I refused to give orders and was ushered out…
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Turkey: The Islands
07 May 2012It’s raining on the Sea of Marmara. It’s raining and cold. The warm cocoon of the ferry boat, on…
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Mexico, Tropic of Cancer
19 Apr 2010Sayulita, a small town in Mexico, with a small wonderful stretch of protected Pacific beach and small waves for small…
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The Power of NO
15 Aug 2009I’ve been thinking about the power of NO, lately, and the power it takes to say when it matters most.…
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Peru: Reading While Walking
02 Aug 2009If summer is a time to travel it is also a time to read. For me combining the two is…
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Peru and Climate Change: 1000 years ago
30 Jul 2009With my recent trip to Peru and on-going existence in the modern world, I found this to be an interesting…
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Peru: It’s A Jungle Out There
24 Jul 2009The sun rises at 6 a.m. in the jungles along the Tambopata River in eastern Peru. Faint whispers of light…
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Peru: Out of the World and In It
10 Jul 2009It’s always instructive to leave what is familiar and visit what is only partially so. The lens of vision shifts.…
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Big Sur in Springtime
14 Apr 2009On Easter Sunday we hiked a few fingers of the great hand of God, the Santa Lucia mountains and…
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Massacre
16 Apr 2007The killing of 33 at Virginia Tech shuts down the mind for a moment or two. No, they must have…
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Reflections on “Bobby” & Humans Rights Watch
19 Nov 2006In some part as a celebration after the elections, Lexie and I drove down to Santa Barbara to visit cousins…
