by Guy Sayles | Aug 7, 2012 | Opinion
There’s no such thing as absolute freedom. Bob Dylan was right: You’re gonna have to serve somebody, yes indeed You’re gonna have to serve somebody Well, it may be the devil or it may be the Lord But you’re gonna have to serve somebody....
by Guy Sayles | Jul 30, 2012 | Opinion
Have you ever tried a geographical cure for your problems? Just move to a new city and leave your problems in the old one. The difficulties you’ve had and the challenges you’ve faced in the past are the fault of the clueless employers and insensitive...
by Guy Sayles | Jul 24, 2012 | Opinion
July 18 was “World Listening Day,” and it might be a commentary on my own failure to listen well that I didn’t hear about it until the day had passed. “World Listening Day” reminds me how little time and space we have for silence, which...
by Guy Sayles | Jul 16, 2012 | Opinion
Wendell Berry says there are things about a farm that a farmer learns only by living on the land over time, tending to it in season and out of season, watching how the wind sweeps across it, observing how water flows over it, seeing the tracks of animals that call it...
by Guy Sayles | Jul 5, 2012 | Opinion
As electioneering gets as intense as this summer heat wave, I’m hoping against hope for an outbreak of civility. Civility is a public virtue that is simple to praise and complicated to practice. It’s easy to dream about and hard to make a reality in the...
