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ugly rotating head on top
our architect firm pitched the idea of mounting a rotating head atop SCC HQ, proportionate to the size of the building so as to be “life-size.” Makes your head spin just thinking about it. So, don’t....
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seamus never disappoints
always in-person when the opportunity allows, you should, you really should try to meet with him whatever the occasion. You just won’t be disappointed. And so, here we are, there he is. Who, exactly...
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Notions are hardly worth their whimsy, rising as oblong pockets from Feathered beds below the glassy sheet of calm. Nature turned her head Away while coughing, politely sparing us the lurches and...
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chicken went down
our wonderful household is wonderful in our wonderful house: two cats, a rabbit still living and thriving indoors only. A legion of expired pets are buried or somehow inaccessibly disposed within...
View ArticleBabies are Gross
Birth. Our nephew’s daughter entered Earth’s atmosphere in the vicinity of San Antonio. Hardly a moment later photos came as email attachments, precious new yet-to-be-swaddled human, her waxy white and...
View ArticleThe Cleaning
Work continues the same everywhere Beginning again in the early evenings Into the nights and mornings as quietly Changed into white clothes we wear Surface layers of dust that air brings Are wiped...
View ArticleThe Fog of Boredom
Boredom is not necessary, neither is it illegal. Resorting to subjects, verbs and objects that are illegal often serves as boredom’s potent antidote. For a while, anyway. Until one becomes bored with...
View ArticleAbout Style Guides
Use them consistently. It makes your writing more betterer. Consistency comes in as many flavors as different spellings for the same word and all variations of correctly punctuating the same sentence....
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our wonderful household is wonderful in our wonderful house: two cats, a rabbit still living and thriving indoors only. A legion of expired pets are buried or somehow inaccessibly disposed within...
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Use them consistently. It makes your writing more betterer. Consistency comes in as many flavors as different spellings for the same word and all variations of correctly punctuating the same sentence....
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Garden Prayer
mantis on our garden patio always praying thank you dear green one for your humble example
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Trying too Hard
Delicate work is brutal, a paradox eventually forgotten as the craftsman polishes his technique. As he polishes his technique he cultivates his patience. This is how he learns the effort of restraint,...
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Dr. Williams in 2020
The Green T-Shirt I’d only worn once In what is now a profile Picture on all social media There it was Not all that important Where it had always been So beloved and simple Freshly laundered, folded...
View ArticleTwo Little Hands
My life’s decades are the number of fingers on a well-formed human hand, not including the thumb. We could say the last five years1 have been the thumb, half-a-thumb, anyway. I pretty much finished...
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