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Retirement Savings
When I think about saving for retirement, I only want to put money in a little jar labeled “Mediterranean vineyard.” All I would like to retire to is a tiny plot of land in Italy where I can let all of my hair go silver. I will cook things and read and write and just […]
April 30, 2009
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A Non-o-Biography
[vimeo 1737891] I think our generation enjoys the word “spork.” It’s been said I’m destined to marry a good-looking dork. I do sometimes listen to Björk. I was also born in New York. I don’t understand the winds of Santa Ana. If we’re in the OT, I want to hope like Hannah. Short haircuts enjoy […]
April 29, 2009
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I Blame You Hollywood…
“Hollywood” by the aforementioned Angus and Julia. [click the button to play] I would like to one day hear a non-Westerner cover this song. It would be a nice commentary on cultural globalization. (Photo by MDH)
April 25, 2009
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Oh Lisbon; Angus and Julia Stone
I would like to walk through the above average alleys of Lisbon this evening. Since I cannot, I’m going to a house show in my friend’s living room. I like music and couches and dinner happening all at once. Rumor has it that the second band is going to play the entirety of Abbey Road. […]
April 25, 2009
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Holga Photo, I Did Not Take
[When I get tired sometimes I go on Flickr and just browse all of other people’s fotos labled “Holga.” It is fun and better than television shows. This shot is by shadowbrush.] Today I started a two-day seminar on ways to help heal the little hearts of children traumatized by awful things like war or […]
April 24, 2009
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Let’s be a Sign, a Wonder
Do men feel comfortable with being called “beautiful”? I have this idea that most men would see this sign and presume it doesn’t apply to them. I’m assuming beauty is associated with the feminine in much of Western cultures. Am I way off? But then I keep thinking of the Italians and how often they […]
April 16, 2009
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Perfume is No Mask
I would like to be as serene as a delicate sailboat. But today I am more like a thundercloud with tense misty muscles waiting to rain. And I can’t hide that I’m sweating. There are too many things happening in and around my life these days to fully feel them all. And that is making […]
April 15, 2009
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I Will Give You a New Name
I would like it if we re-named this holiday FEASTER. I think the risen Jesus likes the name better.
April 12, 2009
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“Crying against the weight of the entire planet”
I find it helpful to contemplate Jesus from the point of view of the poets, because they artfully get into the minds of other unsuspecting characters. Madeleine reminds me that even Jesus needed a friend to help carry the cross on this Good/Awful Friday. I wish we had the content of the gospels in a […]
April 10, 2009
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Comma Comma Comma (Comma), Chameleon
I recently realized, with the recovery of last term’s graded papers, that only my female professors have endeavored to call me out in my overactive usage of commas. Their frustrated marks in pencil and red feel like marks of bizarre friendship to me. It paints me happy and I feel loved, as if they have […]
April 9, 2009
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Polaroid I Did Not Take, But Feels Familiar
Polaroids are Holga’s charming older sister, I think. This one from J. Heineman’s vaults, of Cursive Buildings.
April 9, 2009
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I’m Terrible at Holy Weeking
I’ve always been terrible at recognizing Holy Week as, well, a holy week. Maybe it is because I grew up in churches that were either (a) More interested in the big party–get loud and dance it out, brothers and sisters!–on Resurrection Sunday than the quiet reflection of the Week, or, (b) were mostly focused on […]
April 9, 2009
