"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived."
- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854)
Monday, September 14, 2009
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What We Save From the Fire
Prologue I sit at my writing table late into the night, paralyzed by the weight of writing about a house that became a refuge where men came...
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I have, by some measure of recklessness or sheer geographic fidgeting, inhabited eight U.S. cities. Birmingham, New Orleans, Fort Lauderdale... -
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Here I sit - nursing a scotch, looking out at the pink and orange reflection of the sunset on the mountain—pondering my solitary act of civi... -
"I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must take sides. Neutrality helps...