Category: Commentary
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First Impressions of Las Vegas (The Meadows)
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Leaving in our car, it took us 7 hours to arrive in Henderson which lies in a valley. Having not traveled extensively in the Southwest I was taken by the harsh yet menacingly beautiful scarps of land, the desolation, the mountainous maw of it all, quite breathtaking, quite severe in…
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Everything Bagels, Dasani Water, and The New York Times
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Here is the plan. I live 5 to 7 miles away from the Strip. I get into my Honda with Jane and for lunch we go to the Vegas branch of the Stage delicatessen for pastrami on rye, Dr. Brown’s Cel-Ray, sour pickles and tomatoes, a round potato knish —…
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What Is It to Be Inwardly Free?
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I don’t know. I can say that for at least 34 years I have struggled with that. Dr. Neil Friedman started my search when he assigned Krishnamurti’s The Flight of the Eagle in his social work class. I recall how I found that book so dense with meaning, so conceptual…
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NEVADA BOUND: A PARTING SALVO
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I have been involved within the last two weeks with selling Jane’s home, renting mine, garage sales, and collecting cartons from local stores — in Green Valley they break down the cartons within the store itself with a press. In my hey day we walked behind the drug store and…