The unbearable weight of a recent past
August 6, 2025
Morning mists at Wallula Gap, 30 miles downstream of Hanford
Hiroshima Day, at 80
Today marks the 80th anniversary of the first use of an atomic bomb. Hiroshima. 1945.
It is one of those subjects for which words are hard to come by, at least for me.
If you’ve seen the movie Oppenheimer you can sense why. It’s an overwhelming subject. When the film came out…
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