looking inward and writing about what we find to avoid looking outward at our world of war, refugees, starvation and natural disasters is no different than giving up reading the newspapers and listening to the radio, moving to a empty mountain cabin or, for that matter, closing our eyes like two-year olds and pretending that the devastation all ( Read more... )

A time comes when silence is betrayal. Even when pressed by the demands of inner truth, men do not easily assume the task of opposing their government's policy,especially in time of war. Nor does the human spirit move without great difficulty against all the apathy of conformist thought within one's own bosom and in the surrounding world. Moreover ( Read more... )

Today, more than seventy-five percent of the Palestinians able to vote will do so. Seventy-five percent. Palestine has been devastated by war, many of the people living there have been in refugee camps for two generations and the unemployment rate often hovers around fifty percent. The Israeli government is threatening to stop remitting tax money ( Read more... )

each room has several doors, and each door has a sign. i don’t know what the signs say. it’s possible that i take the signs from room to room and hang them on the doors. an interesting fact about the building: a room not entered vanishes. so if you walk into a particular room and turn back, the room you return to is no longer the room you left. ( Read more... )