by Charles Cameron | Sep 22, 2013 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — time for some more surprises, this time in stone and jazz — plus an afterimage of WWI ] . First, a master-class in the craft of the blues: Second, the moon: And third, because of the violence in Kenya, Pakistan, Syria … get me...
by Charles Cameron | Sep 9, 2013 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — keeping you in the “loopy” loop ] . There’s more ridiculous sloshing around on the web than I can hope to monitor, but my personal collection hit a couple of high points recently that I thought I should share with you....
by Charles Cameron | Aug 5, 2013 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — what can these two stunning performances tell us about conflict and / or peace? ] . I’m not sure if I’ve said it here before, but conflict resolution is pretty much the same as peace making, hence my title for both parts of...
by Charles Cameron | Jul 13, 2013 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — a speech worth close attention ] . . I bypassed several opportunities to hear or read Malala‘s speech today, until Shivam Vij tweeted that she had mentioned Badshah Khan. That caught my attention — Khan is not the most...
by Charles Cameron | Jun 30, 2013 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — of Ozymandias, as Shelley’s story-teller friend reminds us, all that remains are “vast and trunkless legs of stone” ] . I am very fond of the long view, in which each of us becomes (physical) dust and enters (mental)...
