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Functional Politics
People who are struggling to make the actual world conform to some imaginary one are rarely prepared to accept the compromises, the negotiations,… More.
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Ugly Truth
I can’t listen to that song. It makes me remember things. Lucinda Williams, “Ugly Truth” More.
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Permission
It’s not uncommon for teenagers to whine that there’s nothing to do in this town. Or for college students to talk about the limits… More.
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Birds Will Fly
The windows in this house, painted shut for decades, I’m scraping away now at old latex, flaking the lead, peeling back the years to… More.
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Projects
Kio Stark , on gaining a sense of competence and assessing your personal progress by showing others what you’ve learned and focusing on… More.
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Anyone Can Look Up Answers
Ask questions about life. Be curious. Because it’s the questions that are important. Anyone can look up the answers but not everyone can… More.
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Geography is Cruel
It can’t be about the running anymore. It can’t be about the treasure, illusory as the rainbow under which it never really waited.… More.
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Seven Breezes
Standing on the side of an Indiana back road I look in nine directions and count seven breezes going by, the one that cools,… More.
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Rain
I’m holding on underneath this shroud. More.
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People Think of You Often
There’s a line in “Infinite Jest” by David Foster Wallace that I used to return to often. It reads, “You will become way… More.
