Kenneth Wilson

News

and Things From the Side of the Road

Notices - Events

June, 2020: Article about Snapshots and Short Notes in American Way, the inflight magazine for American Airlines : https://americanway.ink-live.com (At the site "page over" to pages 28 - 29.) "Snaps of History" by Epi Erichsen.

July 9, 2016. In Their Own Words: The Messages of Early 20th Century Texas Real Photo Postcards -- Presentation at Texas State Library and Archives Commission, Austin, TX

Odds and Odds

The journey between what you once were and who you are now becoming is where the dance of life really takes place. –– Barbara De Angelis May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds. –– Edward Abbey The first river you paddle runs through the rest of your life. It bubbles up in pools and eddies to remind you who you are. –– Lynn Culbreath Noel

I offer this as a timely and important work.

Jedediah Purdy, This Land is Our Land: The Struggle for a New Commonwealth, Princeton University Press, 2019. Thoughtful essays that raise important issues that span the geographical and political landscape resulting in a broad, historical perspective on environmentalism with an activist’s view of the work yet to be done. Strong and disturbing, the text declares that “the world that may be coming to destroy us is also the world we have made.”

"A profound meditation for our heedless era." -- Elizabeth Kolbert