“We shall not cease from exploration/And the end of all our exploring/Will be to arrive where we started/And know the place for the first time.” These lines from T.S. Eliot’s Four Quartets speak to the unexpected resonance, the deepest of chords I felt when returning from a week in Alaska on June 23rd. I had […]
Calling and Career: The Difference
I have long been deeply moved and inspired by those doing the brutally tough work of trying to prevent crime, of intervening after a crime has been committed, of trying to keep kids back from the edge, trying to prevent kids on the street from penetrating more deeply into one of our “systems”—mental health, child […]
Mud
I am attracted to people with their feet in mud. The poet Marge Piercy celebrates urns, highly ornate amphoras, treasures from the past. Beautiful, yes, but also highly utile, filled by the ancients with olive oil for cooking, wine for celebration Water to slake thirst. She writes: “I want to be with people who submerge […]
More Reflections on Obama’s Election
Dear All: I’ve just returned from Montreal, speaking at a press conference of the agency, the International Centre for the Prevention of Crime on whose board I once sat, and for a year chaired. Was beautiful: a European city, just over our border, brisk cold with light powdery snow falling on a brightly lit city […]
