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Homing instinct
It has been a month and a half since we’ve moved, off the top of my favorite mountain, to a small beach town nearby. It’s not bad, but it’s at sea-level and somehow still dry. I did not take it well, and only now I can express anything about this with a healthy and minimum…
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Pure Guts and Wings
There is a 1998 movie that I hope you have seen. If you have, you’ll know why I’m recommending it: Billy Crudup as Steve Prefontaine, Donald Sutherland as Bill Bowerman, directed by the Robert Towne behind Chinatown; a convertible the color of butterscotch, Elton John on the soundtrack; geopolitics; Eugene, Oregon, shoes, gravel, sweat and track.…
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Dramatic dance
For B.A.F. She has so many questions this summer. What are rocks? Where does water get made? What is your favorite type of gold? But where does it come from? Why is the (shallow) water yellow? Why are those balls (buoys) in the ocean? What happens if a boat flies away? What is that pink…
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Coming (again) soon
I haven’t written a post on this site since we were still very intimate with surgical masks and hand sanitizer. New project here. New post(s) coming soon.
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Wilderness
With thanks to the only Johnny O If we’re trying to find the humor in it, a funny thing about the pandemic might be the things we told ourselves about it at the outset, my favorite being that it would be over soon (also, things about toilet paper and victory gardens). Last March, I wrote…
