Meditations by Martin LeFevre
Being of Irish extraction, despite my surname, I have a weakness for stories. I say weakness because stories have their place – just not first place. What is a story?…
Meditations by Martin LeFevre
Being of Irish extraction, despite my surname, I have a weakness for stories. I say weakness because stories have their place – just not first place. What is a story?…
The afternoon was gray and chilly, with only the saddle-shaped opening to the canyon visible in the hills beyond town. Sitting on plastic and pads, I welcomed the sun as…
President-elect Joe Biden, while pontificating about telling the truth to the American people after a speech about the breach of the Capitol by a mob of Trump insurrectionists, told a…
This column by Martin LeFevre was written shortly before Donald Trump was elected president in 2016. We feel it is fitting to re-run it at this moment. Democracy works, in…
The title is a bit tongue-in-cheek, since to China, and many people outside China, China now is the context of the international (dis)order. As true as that may be, no…
Is human ingenuity sufficient to meet the crisis of climate change and species extinction, or will only a radical change in human consciousness itself, beginning within the individual, be adequate?…
“We are waiting…for change, for the future, for news, for tenderness, for each other, for patience to wait some more.” That pitiably truthful vicious circle, in the [Philosopher’s] “Stone” of…
After spreading plastic and pads to ward off the dampness, a flock of robins greet me as I take my seat amidst the wet leaves. They land close by, and…