What More Is There To Be Said?
“My eight-year-old daughter was killed. My three-year-old son. Nixon, murderer of civilians. What have I done to Nixon that he should come here to bomb my country? My daughter died right here. She was feeding…
Author: Mark J. Chmiel
Lifelong Learning
I used to say to my classes that the ways to get insight are: to study infants; to study animals; to study primitive people; to be psychoanalyzed; to have a religious conversion and get over…
Dear Randa
6 September 2009 Dear Randa, Given how busy you must be, I can’t imagine that you would have brought along with you Robert Fisk’s The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East. I…
El Camino de Santiago by Dr. Brett Schrewe
A long while back, I put Dr. Brett Schrewe in touch with soon to be Dr. Amy (Nuismer) Afanasevich. Brett had walked the Camino years ago, and Amy was soon headed there. Brett offered the…
From Cheryl Sullivan in Santiago, Chile
la tumba de Víctor Jara que alma más apasionada que letra más bella The tomb of Víctor Jara What a passionate soul What a beautiful letter
Persistence
2,768 times down 2,769 times up
Supplication from the Founder of the Theater of Cruelty
We are your faithful servants O Grand Lama give us grace us with your illuminations in a language our contaminated minds can understand Antonin Artaud, to the Dalai Lama –adapted from Eliot Weinberger, Outside Stories:…
Up All Night, November 12, 2007 (Henry Nagler’s Journal)
Who is going to say the unsayable? Who is going to press for the prosecution of George W. Bush and Company for murder? Who is going to stand for law and order? Who is going…
Libraries
A big library really has the gift of tongues and vast potencies of telepathic communication. Northrop Frye
Sempre Avanti
Sempre avanti, Italian. “Always keep moving forward.” I first learned this expression from Helena, a friend who typically signed off her letters with this expression, or else with Coraggio. A historian and a convert to…