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

Tuesday, April 26, 2022

The Truth of Ourselves

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  We have to see our own faults, our own shortcomings  and complicity with evil before the full weight of truth can inhabit our minds and we...
Monday, April 25, 2022

Kindergarten in Knightstown

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  My younger sister’s kindergarten teacher sent me a Facebook friend request today.  Funny thing is, we moved to Orleans, Indiana in the sum...
Sunday, April 24, 2022

Archbishop Paul has Passed

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  The cardinal sings  sweetly from the tree. Breezes blow and  choir the chimes. White flower petals  fall like snow. It is Pascha morning a...
Saturday, April 23, 2022

The Fairies have Moved On

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  The fairies have moved on  and left me with a daughter  who is old beyond her years.   There are still hints of an  effortless innocence b...
Thursday, April 21, 2022

“Visual Writing” a la KVJ

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When you seemingly run out of things to write about sometimes you end up writing about writing. *** My recent explorations into the life...
Friday, April 15, 2022

Time Traveling with my Son

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  I dreamed this morning that I was with my 17 year old son on a hill overlooking a high school.  He was a bit despondent and said he would ...
Wednesday, April 06, 2022

Above the City

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I am looking at an image from the Looney Tunes catalog that has wrangled me out of reality and into a dream.  This is being facilitated by l...
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...
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“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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