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Violators will be Caged?
We don’t often get calls about large animals loose...
Like so many words that joined the language in the...
Motivation for Power: Why Do People Want to Be in ...
so they can feel strong
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The search is never hopeless.
Each Year's Frost
sleep, mood, & hydration
poetry is a political act because it involves tel...
That sentence saved my life.
a modest handful of words
Disney technicians repairing an animatronic figure.
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Ophthalmologist signs in Taiwan, 1962.
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'Never did get my curiosity cured,' she said. 'Som...
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Space
The nature of things is resistance to change, whil...
Education is thinking, and thinking is looking for...
vacare, "to be empty"
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Peaches!
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Recovery from a dysfunctional childhood is a tough...
Many of us, child abuse survivors had accepted the...
The lost art of conversation
Journal: pick the person most driving the craving,...
To write a song requires a reckoning. We roll up o...
If you write, good ideas must come welling up into...
Music is pleasing not only because of the sound bu...
The biggest human temptation is to settle for too ...
The greatest need of our time is to clean out the ...
There is a pervasive form of contemporary violence...
The logic of worldly success rests on a fallacy: t...
The beginning of love is to let those we love be p...
Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselve...
There is greater comfort in the substance of silen...
A man knows when he has found his vocation when he...
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Finally I am coming to the conclusion that my high...
the truth of the work itself
Instead of hating the people you think are war-mak...
The more you try to avoid suffering, the more you ...
Our job is to love others without stopping to inqu...
If you want to identify me, ask me not where I liv...
“You do not need to know precisely what is happeni...
Tony Hoagland interview
fatty food intolerance
Cola and Black Coffee: Delicious Heartburn Cure
Artisan Crackers from Nagi at Recipe Tin Eats
It was lovely when you found students who responde...
It's deprivation that makes people writers, if the...
Who knows what oversensitive is, considering all t...
Because I actively enjoy sleeping, dreams, the une...
Reading is rapture (or if it isn't, I put the book...
If you turn the imagination loose like a hunting d...
Happiness is the light on the water. The water is ...
My younger daughter told me recently that when she...
The view after seventy is breathtaking. What is la...
If I had had to write only about imaginary people,...
My father represented authority, which meant—to me...
Between the way things used to be and the way they...
The reason life is so strange is that so often peo...
Memory
A gentleman doesn't have one set of manners for th...
A writer is a reader who is moved to emulation. Wi...
'Hopefulness is not a neutral position. It is adve...
When I go back to poetry, I have to take the muse ...
Why I Chose This Poem
It takes two people to make a lie work: the person...
When you're different, sometimes you don't see the...
The lifelong Madison, Miss., resident was deep in ...
Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand. ...
Every other nation has folk traditions of men who ...
Many people need desperately to receive this messa...
You will have created something
It's like making a movie
And on the subject of burning books: I want to con...
I want to stand as close to the edge as I can with...
Sliver of Sky: Confronting the trauma of sexual ab...
(More) Barry Lopez
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When one door closes another door opens; but we so...
skill, hard work, a good ear, and continued practice.
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Friday, August 02, 2024
What you see is what you make. What you see in a people is what you eventually create in them.
― Ben Okri, A Time for New Dreams
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