Category: Seasons
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Illusions
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in Automobile, Calendar, Driving, Holidays, Home, Seasons, Thanksgiving, Time, Travel, Virginia, Washington, WinterSurrounded by reality, I had to accept that it didn’t matter what the mirror said about the objects on the road. I just had to make my way home.
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The Extra Hour
The extra hour fed the hungry, organized life, deepened my gloom over the state of our democracy, and gave our feathered friends an edge over squirrels ahead of winter.
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What I’m Reading
This product might be a source of what folks these days call toxic masculinity, but which is really just a acting like an asshole while being a man.
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Toots Town
Somewhere inside the school a child navigates a clarinet lesson, Winnie the Pooh notes reaching us, quaint and delightful and timeless.
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Groundhog Day All Year
As I think of the potential substitutes, two women who bring Indian, African, and Jamaican descent into the picture, it occurs to me that American presidential campaigns have always been a sort of groundhog day event.
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Slip Slidin’ Away
Sometimes it feels like it’s all just slip-sliding-away.
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Return of Light
What lifts my spirits during these cold, dark times is this: tomorrow we will have one second more of daylight than we have today.
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Dreaming. Writing.
I keep waking to the nightmare of a perfect opening line. In my half slumber the opening line gives way to what comes next, a sentence followed by yet another. Soon a paragraph emerges and the full landscape of my project unfolds, the horizon glorious and attainable. In the winter months, these words march forth…
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