peril

Increasingly, we do so at our own peril, retreating into screens that bombard us with ever more fearsome stories of others, which causes us to retreat even further.

In others, they appeared to refer to the woman Summers was attracted to by a code name: “peril.”

The USDA’s announcement of the blockade didn’t tie the screwworm peril to immigration, illegal or otherwise, but to commercial imports.

A recognition that humans are also dependent on the complex ecosystems we have so carelessly put into peril: dependent for food, for water, for shelter—for our very survival.

I held house parties and card parties to help keep them entertained at home and so they would be safe from segregation’s sting as well as its perils.