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"this is the world as best as I can remember it"

Saturday, January 29, 2022

Imagination vs Reality

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Imagination for a child is his intuitive grasp that what he sees and what he is told he sees is not all that there is and in this sense what...
Wednesday, January 26, 2022

STATION ELEVEN Hits Home

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  I will sorely miss seeing STATION ELEVEN for the first time.   After watching 9 of the 10 episodes alone I hooked my son into watching it ...
Sunday, January 23, 2022

Lucky Ones

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  Snow falls from unfathomable heights filling the sky with white points of light floating and flitting at the wind’s whim. Here in the sad ...
Friday, January 14, 2022

Jim Forest, Memory Eternal

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  I was heart broken to learn last night that Jim Forest has passed away.  Like my recent post about the passing of Dr. Sheila Hafter Gray I...
Friday, December 31, 2021

The Search

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  NF is a rapper that has things to say.  His nom-de-rap is simply his initials which speaks to a lack of pretense.  Hello Nathan Feuerstein...
Thursday, December 23, 2021

Dr. Gray has Passed Away

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  A colleague from Washington DC informed me last night that my friend and mentor Dr. Sheila Hafter Gray passed away on Tuesday. She was my ...
Wednesday, December 22, 2021

Red Light Green Light

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  It’s on some of the on-ramps here in Columbus, Ohio.  They are stop and go lights on the top of a pole that alternate red and green to con...
Monday, December 06, 2021

No Words

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  Sometimes there are just no words. You hear the keys clicking. Letters appear on the screen. But they are empty promises to understanding....
Friday, December 03, 2021

Get Back

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I have to say I’ve been a bit taken aback by the new Beatles documentary “Get Back”. It’s such an intimate look that conveys the feeling of...
Thursday, December 02, 2021

Flying Saucer over 315

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An honest-to-goodness flying saucer appeared in the sky on my morning commute today, I kid you not.  It was a glorious glowing disk of myste...
Tuesday, November 23, 2021

Not-Quite-Human

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  What they  were building  was a  better future  for those  who were  not-quite-human. ***
Thursday, November 18, 2021

Palliative Care in the Space Age

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  The simple hydrogen engine was thrumming underneath him pulling him down into the stasis couch like a full-bodied hug.  Or was it pushing ...
Monday, November 15, 2021

Franklin Finds a Way

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“Blessed is the Kingdom of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, both now and ever and unto the ages of ages” boomed in his h...
Saturday, October 30, 2021

I Live Here

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  I live here in the pain and sadness of triumphs then tragedies, of broken dreams and shattered expectations. I live here pushing through t...
Thursday, October 21, 2021

Oranges & Blues

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  It is a strange and wondrous feeling   to look out one’s window on a quiet morning commute and be struck by  such rich oranges and deep bl...
Tuesday, October 19, 2021

The Hospital at Night

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  The golden glow  of the hospital  at night  passed on my  drive home  to the car’s right. I imagine seeing suffering eyes  without sight w...
Tuesday, October 12, 2021

When I Forget Myself

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  When I forget myself she reminds me who I am, always. ***
Sunday, October 10, 2021

VIRULENCE

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  It denotes something that is particularly deadly and has recently been tied to a new Covid variant, but truly it can be tied to a darkenin...

A Lonely Bird (early pandemic poem)

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I feel like a lonely bird perched high on a wire seeing the world from  a unique perspective. Wave at me as you pass by. ***
Friday, October 01, 2021

Galápagos

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  (or “A Spoonful of Sugar”) Can you say “Galápagos” with the proper accent? It is quite rewarding. You should try it. It’s almost as much f...
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A. Monk
“Aaroneous Monk” brings to mind the image of a bumbling but well-meaning hermit who continually trips himself up in his overgrown beard as he attempts to battle evil in the world but, more often than not, forgets about the darkness in his own heart. It also sounds similar to the legendary jazz pianist Thelonious Monk, but with a faux-Greek twist. Thelonious was known for being able to maintain two disparate rhythms going at the same time with his hands seemingly disconnected from each other. That kinda sums up my struggle...
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