Category: Culture
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Vintage
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Jane has a mechanical mind. That’s not right. Her mind is Yankee. She can fix it. My mind says first read the manual . Jane’s mind says reach for it, it won’t bite. Jane’s mind has no fear or little of it; my mind sweats anxiety. In The Longest Day, I believe, Cornelius…
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Make Merry
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I learned years ago from a gifted psychotherapist friend that one should make “merry.” I worked as a therapist in his counseling center in the early 90s. Occasionally I was informed that the staff would have a get together, the usually drinks, usual snacks and the usual suspects. When I asked…
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Giving, Giving, Gone
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Inwardly I have noticed, rather, I have known that at this time in my life I feel like a farmer’s silo burdened with the riches of harvest; however, there is no market for what lies within, the heavy volume of months of growth and ripeness. It is as if there is…
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A Meanness of Spirit
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It has been quite a turn of events for me of late, watching the world turned upside down in this country. Values that I thought were imperishable are now dismissed or thrown away into the dustbin of history. The right to collective bargaining is one of these, yet it is…