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These days, we often hear the phrase, “If you see something, say something.” But does the same admonition hold for when we KNOW something?
Finding Directions Out
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These days, we often hear the phrase, “If you see something, say something.” But does the same admonition hold for when we KNOW something?
6 Minute Read
[For Sotir] Douglas Thayer, a beloved mentor of whom I have written more than once, held that no one, including his own spouse, ever wants to read what writers have to say about writing. “Writers should be read and not heard,” was how he put it. Doug, if heaven has eyes for this sort of thing, please forgive what you are about to read.
12 Minute Read
Or the Problem of Ethics in the Dark I learned the story of Cain and Abel around the time my younger brother and I were expected to share our first bin of Legos. After my five-year-old brain worked out how I could possess his half of my inheritance without getting caught, I conceived a plan to eliminate both “Abel” and the all-seeing God who would surely question “Cain” after the deed was done.
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When I dug into the recursive transformation of one of my dad’s revisionist paintings, it occurred to me that when we care for it the way a painter revisits an old canvas, the past is liberated to leap forward into its own future.
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In which I pose the question to anyone who stopped (or started) something because of the Pandemic: Have you now restarted (or stopped) it?
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In which I commit to becoming the stranger I wish to meet in the world.
18 Minute Read
Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world. W.B. Yeats, The Second Coming
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I’ll gladly give you a career tomorrow for a job today.