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+: Bridges Fall Down
Maybe I should start with the good things. But it is not the good things that my thoughts prod at, that curdle in my mind…
Bridges Fall Down
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+: Above the Ice: The Huemul Circuit
Over the top and there it is: the Southern Patagonia Ice Field, the second-largest ice sheet in the world outside of the polar regions…
Above the Ice: The Huemul Circuit
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+: On your left
They call the community at AIDS/Lifecycle “the Love Bubble”, which is cheesy and something I typically have trouble embracing for that; such things are, all too often, a façade, an untruth…
On your left
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+: Fueling Destruction
For years, I have watched as friends of mine in Ukraine and Russia have pleaded with Western governments to stop supporting Russian dictator Putin–not just politically, but financially, through the purchase of fossil fuels. Even “climate-friendly” politicians ignored them…
Fueling Destruction
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+: Human History is Always Dying
A traveling band of robbers fell upon our household one night. They were as senseless and villainous as robbers are in fairy tales. Father stood in the door with a pitchfork and shouted to the older children. “Run! Escape! Fly!” The robbers overpowered my father…
Human History is Always Dying
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+: Intersections
Sometimes the world seems as if it is made up of different planes of being that may overlap, or crash into each other, or may simply stay parallel, not touching…
Intersections
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+: Nadezhda Kutepova: the white crow of a nuclear city
Ozersk, Russia did not used to be on any maps. Residents, if they left the city—with permission, of course—, were unable to share where they were from. Even today, one cannot freely enter or depart the city…
Nadezhda Kutepova: the white crow of a nuclear city
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+: Alla Chernysheva: Words Protect
It was a date that Alla Chernysheva was able to recall without hesitation: on June 10, 2007, she went to a meeting about the woods near her home in Khimki…
Alla Chernysheva: Words Protect
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+: Evgeny Vitishko: do that which is right
Since he was a kid, Evgeny Vitishko has been interested in protecting the environment. He went from planting trees and cleaning up litter as a child to spending nearly two years in a penal colony as a result of his environmentalism…
Evgeny Vitishko: do that which is right