The pause that satisfies. Making a smoke, getting ready for the ride back to the shop after a day of ordering in Charles Hill field, readying to plant corn. Jack Jasper, Rosni Farm, 1975.Day’s end. Jack used to live in the house on the top of the hill, before Jack I think Sterling stayed there. In 1975 I did.
Vehicular air condition existed in 1972 but it seemed more the exception than the rule. “I’ve got two forty AC, two windows down, forty miles an hour.”
If we refuse a role, we cannot expect smaller, weaker, and poorer nations to ensure world order for us. We are not going to achieve a new world order without paying for it in blood as well as in words and money. Perhaps our leaders should put the question to the people: what do we want the United Nations to be?–Arthur Schlesinger
photo by Paul Wickliffe, 1969?
