Tag: life
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Veni, Vidi, Vaccine
Siri announced that I had arrived. I turned off NPR, shut down my Subaru Forester, and began fumbling through my documents. Photo ID? Check. Kaiser card? Check. Face mask? Ready. I put my documents into my wallet, slid it into my right back pocket, stepped out into the parking lot, and strapped on my mask. I checked the…
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X Marks the Name of The Father
What follows listens closely to a White House press conference, one year into the administration, January 2026. By the time a word bubbles up to the surface, it’s passed through several subterranean chambers. It arrives as a dream-image arrives—attached to innumerable associations—tangled with roots, not etymological, yet of a perdurable toughness. In our waking hours,…
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Field Note 3¾ — The Rainbow Connection: Don’t Believe Everything You Think
We’re steeped in phrases, slogans, narratives, and interpretations — authored by others, many of whom have anything but our best interests at heart, and are all too ready to turn us into croaking frogs, gig us clean, and fry up our meaty legs.
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