Sunday, December 25, 2022
“These sudden ends of time must give us pause.
We fray into the future, rarely wrought
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Save in the tapestries of afterthought.
More time, more time. Barrages of applause
Come muffled from a buried radio.
The New-year bells are wrangling with the snow.’’
From “Year’s End,’’ by Richard Wilbur (1921-2017), American poet and teacher who lived most of his life in New England.
“People are trapped in history, and history is trapped in them.’’
James Baldwin (1924-1987), American writer.
“As the humiliations mounted in the field for Russia’s hapless military, they raped and tortured and murdered civilians. In Moscow, a bewildered and enraged Putin decided on a new strategy: The Ukrainians would be punished for their insolence, broken as a nation, starved and frozen until they begged the new emperor for mercy.’’
— Tom Nichols, formerly of the U.S. Naval War College, in The Atlantic.
We’re holding the Ukrainians’ coats as they fight and die for democracy and help protect the West from further aggression by Putin. And bravo to the brave Iranians and Chinese who have protested against their dictatorships. But some famous people are enjoying themselves in a dictatorship. Hit this link.
