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Tactile thought

I made a most interesting and useful discovery this week while attempting to write a few coherent paragraphs based on ideas and concepts pulled from several different literatures- I require tactile contact with paper in order to organize my own … Continue reading

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Celebration

It’s done it’s done the grant is done, sent off in its neat little package before the last FedEx pickup, punched the “send” button on the computer too, for better or worse that one’s done. Somehow paper feels more final. … Continue reading

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What a sweet, beautiful morning it is here, as hurricane Irene pounds up the East coast. Though I must work today, I’ve promised myself a walk when I need a break, and to leave by 4 PM. You don’t get … Continue reading

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Cuba, 1957

My brother compiled photos and negatives of my father’s, taken throughout his lifetime, and gave them to us for Christmas this year. Here are two striking photos, one of men working in the sugar cane fields, the second of men … Continue reading

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Dennis prepares to weld

Dennis is building a guard to go around the outside of the French door to nowhere at the new house. There will be a deck there eventually but for now it opens into thin air, and the city inspectors want … Continue reading

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