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The Spirit Of History

Essays

What else, if not individual acts of complicity, like that of that neighbor—or acts of defiance, like that of my grandfather—form the historical waves, the irresistible current of events that shapes the foundation of every human society.  Where wind carries the smell of the crematorium And a bell in the village tolls the Angelus The Spirit of History is out…

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Beneath the black rocks

Essays

My mother’s face betrayed nothing but the utmost delight. She touched my father’s arms and chest, all the places where the flowers were blooming.  They cut into the ocean in a perfectly perpendicular line. Their color changes depending on how much of the rock is submerged in water in low or high tides and how much sunlight reflects on their…

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