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May.10.2013
Life is Feeling
All experience comes from feeling. There is not an experience you have that does not come from feeling. You cannot exist without feeling. Your biology is created to experience feeling. It is an antenna for feeling. You cannot not feel; it is impossible and when you deny...
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Apr.28.2013
Thin
this harrowing marrowof transparent oathseither made in hasteor known as waste
i guess you sawmy rare marchagainst the truthmy borrowed veracity
(c)2013
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Apr.03.2013
April 3
Unfettered
“The difference between a demand and a request is apparent to everyone.” A drunk once said this and I hold it to my heart. I can not be bullied or swindled into a corner; neither will I allow you to put a rope around my neck...
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Mar.26.2013
March 26
Whirly Gigs
Pivot points and reference points subtlety disguised as harmless bric-a-brac escape my comprehension until I either stumble or land on one or the other and ponder the affect. Realization that much of my life’s contentment hinges like a...
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Mar.11.2013
O, countrymen
Miles can be covered If joy and happiness is sharedWhether it is human relationOr with any other indication
Hostility still prevailsMany people are killed and mechanism failsPoliticians talk of peace and do nothing Make life difficult and add fuel for something ...
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Mar.05.2013
Creative Nonfiction, Winter 2013
This is one of those issues I just couldn’t stay interested in. Still, I’m glad I made it to the back pages and a roundtable discussion between Chris Jones, Thomas Lake and Ben Montgomery, roughly on the state of journalism today.
What with the urge to beat...
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Feb.19.2013
My Desk
Yesterday, I told the story of how I got a picture back from a framer and didn’t recognize it because it looked so different with a frame: A fable for writers. While I’m in the mode of telling slightly embarrassing anecdotes that have an underlying message for the writing life, here is...
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Feb.19.2013
Why do the charmed play hide and seek
and flee the story in the wings,
as if disporting on the stage
could set alight the curtain fringe?
Illusion's limelight's highly prized
and channelled sentiment extolled
If structured context cramps the style,
another's script makes players...
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Feb.15.2013
“Obituaries would be a lot more interesting if they told you how the person died.”
At first I thought this was a little insensitive to the dead person's surviving family. Do the grandsons really need to read about grandma getting run over by a reindeer? Then I thought: lighten up, these truths...
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