Category: Pacifism

Speechless About Gaza

Screenshot from Twin Peaks - skinny man standing on stage facing a crowd saying "It is happening again."

“It is happening again.” A distressed old man on a mysterious stage speaks these words slowly and painfully in the climactic episodes of David Lynch’s brilliant “Twin Peaks”.

Genocide is happening again in more than one region of planet earth today. We talk about Israel’s violence in Palestine on the … Read the rest

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A Taste For Change

Three I Ching hexagrams illustrated via AI image generator for hexagrams 28 (Great Efforts), 29 (Pitfalls: Peril) and 30 (Emotional Cling)

I threw the I Ching for America the other day.

This is a good spiritual practice when you come to a moment in your life when things are changing fast and you want to get a grip on what’s happening. My own version of this ancient Chinese tradition is quite … Read the rest

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A Coder’s Long Quest: My Washington DC Years

Polaroid photo of the US Capitol in the distance and the shadow of the photographer across the Mall

I started publishing my memoir here on Litkicks 15 years ago. I wrote one new chapter a week for 53 weeks, covering the years 1993 to 2003 when I was a first-generation website developer participating in an amazing worldwide software revolution from inside the skyscrapers of Manhattan and my home … Read the rest

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Mockingjays on Morningside

A park bench and a vista in Morningside Park, New York City

I was already thinking about Columbia University, where courageous students are calling out the college administration’s support for genocide in Gaza, when I heard Paul Auster had died of cancer at the age of 77 in his home in Brooklyn. Paul Auster was widely celebrated as a Brooklyn writer from … Read the rest

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Waters Run Deep (A River Change)

jigsaw puzzle of Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon

I really don’t know what happened to me about five years ago, when I suddenly found it difficult and annoying to write blog posts.

I suppose this wasn’t so strange, because it is difficult to write good blog posts, and difficult things can be annoying. What was strange is that I’d … Read the rest

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