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May.01.2011
Please forgive this entry's title. I'm not sure what I have to say here.
A Different Light, the gay bookstore in the Castro, just closed. The one in West Hollywood closed last year (I think). Independent bookstores have been closing for years due to a variety of reasons we all know. I won't get...
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Apr.08.2011
Guest post for Louise Hart's April newsletter
As the terrible news from Japan unfolds, we are learning a lot about nuclear energy. It’s a sophisticated, pollution-free energy source—until something goes wrong. Same thing with nuclear families, which are defined as a father, a...
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Feb.06.2011
Earth Days
by Roger Kuhns
Presented at the UU Fellowship, Ephraim, Wisconsin
April 25, 2010
Earth.
Day.
Earth is every day, every year, back to our beginnings, and before - a billion years and more, a trillion days and more…
… this blue and green and rocky Earth; these rich and...
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Jan.17.2011
For days on end a little titmouse has flown against the vaulted window in our front room. Starting at daybreak and returning again and again until nightfall, it seems to want entrance or passage –persistently undaunted by the fact that neither is obtainable.
Trying to see from its point of view...
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Dec.16.2010
This silence in the timbers.
A woodpecker on one of the trees taps out its story.
Robert Haight*
Each tree, too, has its own story, its own family, its own tribe. And even though we do not know if they give their lives willingly, we could not live or breathe without them. We fell them for their...
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Dec.09.2010
By ANASTASIA ASHMAN
Seems like only yesterday my site and the online community around the Expat Harem anthology were"hothouse flowers blooming behind closed doors".
Now expat+HAREM, the global niche is celebrating a full year of camaraderie among cultural creatives, globally mobile...
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Nov.18.2010
Today I am leading a writers and poets' salon at All About the Journey, a place for healing arts in Minneapolis, Minnesota. One thing I have learned about Minnesotans, they love to attend events when the weather goes below freezing. Not a native, I, too, now love to attend events after being...
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Nov.04.2010
Went out this morning to take photographs of a rental house for our Visiting Poet, Pamela Uschuk. A cute house on Sutherland with lots going for it--including a back yard that's like a park. The landlord is clean cut and friendly, and tells me that his sister's a poet. What's her name? Diana...
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Nov.01.2010
I've been here a month, today. In this time I have developed a sneaking suspicion that Austin has grown up in the last several years since I've been here. In this sense, we're well matched. I'm past the days of working with musicians and running beside my boyfriend to push our indie label offerings...
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Sep.09.2010
"Anybody out there?"
I recently had a conversation with a few friends about community, and the question seemed to perplex us: Where is it exactly?
What do we need a community to be in order to even recognize that it exists?
I swim at a local pool each weekday, something I've done...
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