Musings

In Preparation

I surrender now Give myself over to The whisper And the soft music in the walls In the ether Where everything hovers Waiting Even the

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Francis O'Connor set design for Waiting for Godot

Letting in the Mess

Samuel Beckett and Tom F. Driver on the Function of Art in a World in Crisis There is so much about my work as an

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Cosmic Tides

Cosmic Tides

A man’s soul is like a lagoon connected with the sea by a submerged channel; although to all outward seeming it is land-locked, nevertheless its water

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common sense crash test dummies gun reform

Common Sense

You can still learn a lot from a dummy. Growing up in South Carolina in the mid-80’s, I remember the adults around me grumbling about

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Annie Proulx birthday American soothsayer

Annie Proulx 🎈

Happy Birthday to Pulitzer-prize winning author, Annie Proulx, who turns 84 today and whose fiction transports the reader into pockets of rural America most will

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where you headed

Where you headed, boo?

Life is motion. We are always going somewhere, even when we’re running from something else. We are always pointed at something. The future meets us

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The Magician

Instagram is The Magician. The OG trickster. The sleight of hand illusionist. Instagram (and WordPress and most of the rest of the internet) does a

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The Business of Life

My mom turned 70 on Friday. She’s nimble and full of life and when I spoke to her on the phone earlier last week, she

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