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I’ve heard the term “playing possum” all my life, but I’d never seen the thing itself happen until Friday night. I went out as usual with my two dogs, the larger one, Lucy, not on a leash, because she’s pretty obedient, the smaller one, Andy, on a leash, because he isn’t. As we started down…
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I'm not responsible for what happens to your mind if you click here. I will note that it may take me a while to recover.
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Sort of a strange thing: these Easter lilies just appeared by the side of the road near my house, here in the middle of July. I guess they grew from a discarded one. The plant is 6 feet tall or so (~2 meters).
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Apocalypse on the one hand; on the other a job to do: routine, the work for which they had been trained. Behind the barricades and bullhorns, men of ordinary lives. The day or shift, the wait for war, having ended they touch their cars as if the cars were horses; speak, more bitterly each day…
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January, Mid-Afternoon (early or mid-1970s) That Night (early or mid-1970s) Jonah (late 1970s) Holy Innocents (late ’70s or early ’80s) Causeway (1991) Live Oak (1992) Kitten (1992) Waco (ca. 1994) Partly Cloudy (2006?)
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Crossing again with the light on the water light wavering on the black glass out of reach with the stars bridge of light reaching all the way from childhood passing beyond me now I follow as best I can Over the bay to the house in the trees past nights on the screened porch insects…
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As most people who would be interested probably know, Christopher Hitchens announced recently that he is undergoing treatment for cancer of the esophagus. I have the impression that this is a form of cancer which is pretty difficult to cure. And since Hitchens is one of the half dozen or so most visible and hostile…
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Since I'm too busy to compose a serious post…I grabbed this screen shot yesterday afternoon. (Look more closely at the headline if you don't get it.)
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Pray for this woman: http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/meast/07/05/iran.stoning/
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A small milestone in this long-drawn-out business of migrating everything from my old site to here: that handful of non-blog essays and book reviews that were listed simply as "Prose" on the old site are now here. See the "Here" sidebar, the item called Non-Blog Prose Writings. The verse is next. It's amazing how time-consuming…
Light On Dark Water 