(Getty Images / Bryan Bedder) Sendin’ out love to all corners of the land… -MCA Adam Yauch, known by his rap moniker MCA, has died. MCA was one of the three Jewish kids from New York who changed the face of music (and often, their own music) forever. I haven’t had any experiences with public [...]
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The time that my family thought I’d been kidnapped
April 26th, 2011
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It was raining. I was maybe five years old, but probably not older than six, because I was only six after we’d moved north from Lostant and the Wal-Mart that we were at was definitely the one in Lasalle, that big old one like before they switched to the red, white, and blue branding that [...]
The things I carried
April 22nd, 2011
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I’ve got nothing in my pockets right now save for a pen. It’s one of those nice recycled cardboard ones that they give out at environmentally-conscious conferences and presentations. This is important. Allow me to explain. I present a refrain from my high school years: “Hey Tim! What’s in your pockets today?” Imagine, if you [...]
Such as it is on a farm…
April 20th, 2011
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More dispatches from my family back in Illinois. Although this one seems, on the surface, slightly more mundane than the tornados that hit them last year, I think it’s still worth reading: Such as it is on a farm… Your father and I were out folding up a tarp from the garden this morning and [...]
Mud Cakes
January 4th, 2011
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Mud cakes. There was a time in my life (you can probably guess that I was quite short) when I spent an abnormal amount of time carefully crafting cakes of mud. Their purpose: to be cakes of mud; nothing more, nothing less. I’d head out into the field after a wet night or early morning, [...]
A tornado hit my farm – my response
July 1st, 2010
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Pictures of the INCREDIBLE DESTRUCTION follow this post. I returned home the other night to find a series of Gchat messages from my mother; she likes Gchat. Here’s an excerpt (names changed for some reason): MOM: I delivered my stuff just as the rain started and right before it hit dixon. then I got over [...]
Quantum science and poetic expression
June 28th, 2010
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I sent a friend an article by Deepak Chopra earlier today with the note “Read this – it’s a window into what is running through my mind all the time!” Chopra’s article was about the Higgs boson and its implications for billions of religious people the world over. Or at least, that’s what it started [...]
Play-Doh shows us how to be the Torchbearers of humanity
June 7th, 2010
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The Souls of people, on their way to Earth-life, pass through a room full of Lights; Each takes a Taper (candle), often only a spark, to guide it in the dim country of this world. But some souls of rare fortune, are detained longer and have time to grab a handful of candles, which they [...]
Charity? Paradox?
May 3rd, 2010
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He’s pulling on my shirt. I’d guess that he’s about 7 or 8. He’s not speaking English, so I have no way of knowing what his “hook” is. He keeps rubbing his right eye – it looks terrible, like something exploded in it. This is my first interaction with a child of the street. I [...]
