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

Wednesday, March 30, 2022

ABID - Incantation of the Ego

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  Ancient Beast of Impossible Derivation we call to your bones and lost sinews to reassemble into woeful vengeance.  Strike down our enemies...
Thursday, March 24, 2022

The Benefits of Writing

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  I’d like to put in a plug for writing.  It has been a lifesaver for me through some pretty dark times, especially in the past few years of...
Saturday, March 19, 2022

The Power of Thin Mints

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  There is something undeniably powerful about a Girl Scout cookie thin mint.  Today I saw a nurse’s assistant come into the 6th floor work ...
Friday, March 18, 2022

The Beauty of Us

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In the search for grand vistas  or man-made wonders let’s not forget the beauty of us. Even if we wander through galleries of priceless pain...
Wednesday, March 09, 2022

Jesus Needs His Sandwich

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  Jesus needs His sandwich  and I nearly forgot it in my haste to leave the hospital today. I got as far as the parking garage,  my driver’s...

What Kurt has to Say

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  Is there a more clear-sighted observer of our modern American experience than Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.?  That is a rhetorical question. I couldn...
Monday, February 28, 2022

Somewhere near Whitehall

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  Somewhere near Whitehall I saw an empty can crushed by the side of the road next to car-bought carrion for crows. And a colorful sign welc...
Sunday, February 27, 2022

Living with War

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  I saw the cover of Neil Young’s  “Living with War” on a FB post yesterday.  The letters were  stenciled black on a paper sack. I bought my...
Thursday, February 10, 2022

God’s Garden

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  My four year old daughter asked if I would listen to her heart and  so I flattened my large ear to  her chest and listened to it beat. ...
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. ***
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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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