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The Emperor’s New Wing
The following is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to actual persons living or dead is purely coincidental. *** Nothing is as easy as it looks; everything takes longer than you think. And, if anything can go wrong, it will, and at the worst possible time. Murphy’s Law *** So…
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Art & Writing
I’ve long been interested in the connection between music and language, but this lovely new book by artist and writer Peter Selgin fascinated me, as it links events from his study of, and life in the visual arts, with his impressive collection of work as an equally impressive and accomplished…
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Common Ground
The question is not if or to, but when and what or why and where and how? If one does this instead of that, the end may shift by threads, or swelling clouds of snow. But time, as lord of all, crafts here and now at whim. Yet what is…
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Simple Gifts
Every season this year came off-balance—warm too early, cold too early, ferociously windy or wet, then oddly calm and too dry. Our heat goes off, comes on, windows open and close, we pile on blankets then shed them a night later, and watch nature’s confusion. We assumed our sparrows didn’t…
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Changes
I can relate to that woman in the picture. In the past year-and-a-half, the world has shifted 180º around me, making my hair stand on end, the blood rush to my head, and bringing everything I’d taken for granted crashing to the floor. The resulting clutter has forced a colossal…
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Rebirth
A house I love is coming down. i saw the fence around it today, the dumpster in the driveway, equipment ready nearby, and signs on the front lawn foretelling the inevitable. It’s a charming house. Ivy covered brick Tudor, with lannon stone steps, gracefully arched roof lines and dormers that…
