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“Remember the Love Bit”
"Use your head for more than a hat rack." Christopher Hitchens died yesterday. For those of you who only read things published by the Sword, Mr. Hitchens was a genius, a poet, a prolific essayist, and...
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The Words Live
I have a fascination with Last Words, and I have accumulated a rather ecclectic collection of them. An individual’s last words are often their most beautiful, their most poignant, the funniest, the...
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Maurice Sendak: A Needle Stuck in Childhood
“And Max, the king of all wild things, was lonely and wanted to be where someone loved him best of all.” “Why is my needle stuck in childhood? I don’t know…I guess that’s where my heart is.” -Maurice...
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Comforters
She can’t see very well anymore. He’s deaf. It’s been fifteen years since she poured her own cup of coffee: her shaking hands and tired eyes make it hard. He does it for her, (two sugars, a bit of...
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Dumb Ways to Die
I can’t decide if this is the best or the worst thing I have ever seen on YouTube. All I know is I have watched it with my teenage daughter about ten times in a row and we can not stop laughing… “Get...
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Gentle Man
Gentle man The strongest spirits so often are soft-spoken… His voice was gentle. His eyes were kind: they looked slowly, noticing things others miss. He was strong enough to sing Tender enough to...
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Loss
You died today. You were 68. I found out via Facebook message from…a relative I have not spoken to in over a decade who wanted me to tell my sister. She referred to you by your given name. She did not...
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Focus Power
The news out of Washington seems to be a petri dish for growing cynicism and a sense of helplessness: it seems nothing changes, and power’s power to corrupt only feeds on itself and grows ever...
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On Pursuing Happiness
So, the Westboro guy is dying, and his tragic passing into whatever comes next got me thinking about happiness, of all things. (Yes, I meant to say “tragic.” I find Fred Phelps to be a pitiful...
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The Spectacular Life of Robin Williams
We’re all weary and exhausted from grieving him, but not writing about the loss of Robin Williams just seems…wrong. Robin Williams was brave in the most dangerous way: he felt things deeply, and...
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