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The Sitter

January 31, 2020

          I remember when summer used to smell like fresh-cut grass—           As he jumps through the sprinkler, …

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The Mermaid

August 2, 2015

“Her eyes were the color of faraway love.” Pablo Neruda, “The Fable of the Mermaid and the Drunks”         “What’s taking …

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California Dreamin’

September 7, 2014

        Cali was a cute little suffer girl from Santa Ana.         She was about this tall, had a sweet laugh, great …

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Charles

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“A man who tells secrets or stories must think of who is hearing or reading, for a story has as many versions as it has readers. Everyone takes what he wants or can from it and thus changes it to his measure. Some pick out parts and reject the rest, some strain the story through their mesh of prejudice, some paint it with their own delight. A story must have some points of contact with the reader to make him feel at home in it. Only then can he accept wonders.” ― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

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Jacques Derrida

In order to find an analogy […] we must take flight. — Jacques Derrida, The Derrida Reader: Writing Performance. (University of Nebraska Press January 1, 1998)

Edmond Jabès

(The unconditional is not opposed to the neutral. It is its radical essence, condition of unconditionality, and unconditionality of all condition. It is the perfect condition of neutrality at the heart of unconditionality or of condition, of full life, of absolute place: it occupies the place that death occupies in life.) — Edmond Jabès, The […]

John Masefield

“The Seekers” Friends and loves we have none, nor wealth nor blessed abode,But the hope of the City of God at the other end of the road. Not for us are content, and quiet, and peace of mind,For we go seeking a city that we shall never find. There is no solace on earth for […]

William Irwin Thompson

So I prefer to imagine that black holes expand the light of dying stars into other dimensions, and that “the end of all our exploring,” in the words of T.S. Eliot, “will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.”— William Irwin Thompson, Darkness and Scattered Light (Anchor Press […]

Marilyn Monroe

I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they’re right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together. ― […]

Wendy Doniger O’Flaherty

The hope of a shared human dream] is, I think, in our recognition of the human terror of solipsism. […] Nothing is more personal than a dream, nothing else so imprisons a person in irremediable solitude, nothing else is as stubbornly resistant to the possibility of being shared. The temptation now arises to believe that […]

W.S. Merwin

There are no hinges. One side of the door is simply forgotten in the other. — W.S. Merwin, “Lost Month,” The Moving Target (Macmillan Pub Co January 1, 1986)

Martin Heidegger

Inconspicuously compliant is the thing: the jug and the bench, the footbridge and the plow. But tree and pond, too, brook and hill, are things, each in its own way. Things, each thinging from time to time in its own way, are heron and roe, deer, horse and bull. Things, each thinging and each staying […]

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