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City Desk - A View from Mt. Vernon

by Dana LaRocca

Friday, 04 May 2012

Froggy’s Dilemma

Nobody jumps willingly into a bad situation, but when a bad situation grows on one gradually, it can become tolerable. If you put a frog in a pot of cool water, the legend says, and slowly bring it to a boil, the frog will doze off and be cooked without ever knowing what happened. My friend Kermit insists that it is only a legend.

The Glass Bead Game

“It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is,” Hermann Hesse wrote in Narcissus and Goldmund. In this edition of Baltimore OUTloud we examine our collective effort to fathom one another, to encounter the other as unique persons, not merely a part of the collective rainbow.

Come on people

“Come on people now, smile on your brother, everybody get together and try to love one another right now,” are the lyrics to a tune popularized by The Youngbloods, but originally recorded by the Kingston trio. That’s what we will need to do if we intend to change the world; which is very much our intention.