Meditations by Martin LeFevre
On the same day that six American soldiers were killed in Afghanistan, the national media showed a woman being executed by Taliban-supporting villagers while a large, male-only gathering cheered. The deaths…
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It’s a hot Sunday morning. After a fine walk along the paths in the park, and a pleasant talk with two women on horseback, I stop to take a sitting…
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The gulf between the spiritual and political dimensions in human life has never been wider, while at the same time harmony between the two has never been more urgently necessary,…
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Yesterday was windy, and the strong breezes burnished the foothills, making the sentinel rock in the canyon stand out sharply against a cobalt blue sky. The winds calmed down by midnight,…
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The green waters of the reservoir are like glass. On the surrounding ridges, motionless pines tower over the man-made lake, and reflect off the surface of the water with mirror-like…
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It has become a cliché to say that the solution to the European economic crisis is political integration. Like most cliché’s, that’s a misleading half-truth. Allow me to address the European…
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Overhanging the gorge are great angular outcroppings of volcanic rock—solid and sharp-edged protrusions from some long-ago eruption of Lassen or some other volcano in the area. In many places, the sheer…
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A group of young fellows are swimming in the creek at my usual sitting spot, so I walk a couple hundred meters upstream and put the pad down across the…