Jesse S. Sommer

This evening we sit on the banks of a something;
the sunset is jealous of the show we perform.

Are you asking if I support the death penalty, or if I believe in the sovereign state’s right to kill?  Those questions operate in altogether different universes, and I counsel caution in conflating philosophy with procedure.

History happened; it can’t be destroyed. It can only be forgotten (by people who don’t read) or reinterpreted (by people who read Facebook).

Have I mentioned that “to father” is to forgive?

“Eyesore.” That’s how Albany’s journalistic community has referenced the century-old Central Warehouse in

The Altamont Enterprise is a mirror — a reflection of us, an opportunity to take stock of who we are and what our locality deems important.  

This era demands more shepherds — those who tend to our many opposing viewpoints, but who nonetheless move us together as one.

The essential fact in the Book of Jonah is not that a man was swallowed by a whale, but that humanity has a heartbreaking tendency to turn its back on God.

At all times, the path to fulfillment already lies within you.

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