Writings

Go ahead. Rush around hither and yon to meet that deadline. Circled in red on your calendar, naturally, is the date December 25. Our world is now caught up in the special season of giving. In modern society that means, of course, doing even more shopping than normal. Run ragged the rest of the year [...]

Guess what? Life is already bouncing back to my normal routine, except in the area of the news. Not working in New York, not being a member of our Armed Services, and not having a job in the US Postal Service, I am more free to be my old self again. There’s still the specter [...]

Sometimes Life interrupts our daily routine, the way year after year we are kept running on autopilot. Sometimes Life rattles us with shockwaves to force us into a different state of awareness. Sometimes Life introduces us to unspeakable death, challenging us to turn a marginalized existence into a meaningful one. Rarely does a defining time [...]

Can I stop it? Is it possible for me, one speck, one person, to do anything at all to halt the relentless, overpowering flow of the mighty river which is mainstream modern society? It has become more swift, more turbulent and, thus, more monstrous; and, now, with each passing day there comes the ever-rising danger [...]

What has always been the hardest thing for me to do is to start over. Being settled in a way of life is like lying in bed under heavy blankets on a frigid winter’s morning. Who in their right mind wants to step out into the cold? And, when you must get going, does not [...]

Hours, days, years. A lot of time I have wasted. Some of it has been taken from me; some I have lost by chasing after the wrong rabbit. The most waste has resulted from a lack of real, positive direction. How can it be otherwise when my whole world is adrift with no captain at [...]

Dear Friends,
We have experienced a great sense of relief that the Juan Gonzalez family is together again in the place they call home. It was such a torturous road traveled to get to their destination and the outcome was never certain until the very last when their plan left for Cuba. And so this victory [...]

Those popping sounds one hears are millions of bubbles bursting across our land as–at last–Juan has left the country. Grand illusions about the USA’s being Number One just got drilled when, despite eighty-three days of an enforced “visit,” Mr. Gonzalez chose not to accept any more of our “hospitality.” There were many who believed that [...]

Three days ago, the U.S. Department Of Justice rocked the world of the Miami relatives who never dreamed that the authorities in our nation would ever, without their knowledge, actually carry out the law. Under five months of delusion, the keepers of Elian continued trifling with Janet (as Marisleysis calls her), toying with her as [...]

Because of his five months as a hostage, because of the smothering treatment with which he has been suffocated, because of the abusive cameras which have turned a little boy into a carnival freak, there must be answered this question: Is Elian still Elian?