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New Dawn
As is obvious to anyone who visits or receives this little blog of mine, posts fell off a bit last year. Two years ago, I made a New Year’s Resolution to start a blog, and I posted more than thirty...
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The Wrath of Pheme
I was having a sitdown with ole Pheme the other day, asking her what her deal was. She’s very insistent, you know. And busy. And of all the old Greek gods, perhaps the most persistent. Perpetual, one...
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Nulla Dies Sine Linea
Do you ever wonder, staring out the window of the train, say, or of your house, or just out of your eyeballs at that oft-referenced and probably cliché but never-quite-wrong middle distance, when...
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Boats against the Current
I grew up with a sister a couple years older than me. For the most part we got along, minus the inevitable spats and strains that siblings have, especially in those alien-brained teenage years. In my...
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Nor Any Drop to Drink
Perhaps because they’re so often bogged down by minutia or driven so hard under the Sisyphean pressure of content production that they don’t get the chance to exorcise their opinions, many journalists...
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On Wednesday, December 2, 2015, a couple walked into a holiday party at the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino and murdered fourteen people. They shot a bunch of other people, too, and then they...
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This is the second prologue I’ve written in two days, on a post I started five nights ago. I was about to start making final edits last night when I saw, in Monday’s New York Times, a story called...
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Some observations on writing and life, in the style of one of my Heroes of Simplicity, Haruki Murakami. Minus the birds and cats and empty wells. WRITING I had to give a presentation at the State...
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…without end
Thinking this morning about what Wendell Berry calls “commitment without end,” about mystery, and about faith. I meditate. Been doing it a long time and try to do it every day. Some days, I have a...
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