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calendar_today October 6, 2015 schedule 1 min read

Life and Work

Teacher

I am the unseen cog in the wheel. I am the net that catches the dream. I am the other hand clapping.

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calendar_today October 6, 2015 schedule 2 min read

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Sapiens Revisited

If evolution had never got past a certain point I can well imagine what my particular little tribe would be doing. In the long hours...

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calendar_today October 2, 2015 schedule 1 min read

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Bones

I love the bones of you. Such an odd saying, I always thought. There are so many things to love about a person; why pick...

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calendar_today September 30, 2015 schedule 1 min read

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Happiness

Hap pi ness hangs On a thread so fine the weight of a butterfly can send it flying.

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calendar_today August 6, 2015 schedule 1 min read

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Sunshine

Sitting on a bench Sunlight warming the stones of the Abbey Violin playing in a little surge of tourists Empty screens of phones raised in...

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calendar_today August 2, 2015 schedule 2 min read

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Gossip

The word gossip originally meant O.E. godsibb “godparent,” from God. Notice how its meaning slides from a perfectly respectable title for either man or woman...

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calendar_today July 28, 2015 schedule 1 min read

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Sonnet

OK; this is a bit theatrical, I grant you; but it is difficult to know what to do with myself today. We are waiting to...

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calendar_today July 25, 2015 schedule 1 min read

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Tides

There is a tide in the affairs of women, too. It swirls around your ankles when you are a girl, Teasing your toes, tugging you...

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calendar_today July 23, 2015 schedule 1 min read

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Freewheeling

Being a human being is hard work. All that seeing and hearing and touching and smelling and walking and running and talking and thinking and...

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calendar_today July 21, 2015 schedule 1 min read

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Ecrivain

I used to think you could only call yourself a writer if you were writing War and Peace. At least. In Andrew's film, Elliot sits...

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