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Tag: Life

  • Damned Spring

    Photo by Jordan Ladikos on Unsplash Chinooks, they say, for the last few days are blowing out windows, punching at trees,teasing of spring in the deadlock grim of winter;melting snow: powdering breaths of almost-summer,hale and evocative, driving me mad.In spring I know I’ve spent another season.Damned spring. I’ve never had much use for spring;don’t like it when it comes…

  • Late March

    Joshua Bartell on Unsplash The brown tree’s tippedwith awkward swellings,dipped in coldish rain,waiting perfectly gray and bleak: come backin about a week. Anton Darius TheSollers on Unsplash

  • 40 Things I Love

    Mostly not things at all. Thanks to Cyndi Rooney for inviting me to compile a list of 40 things I love. Though it was harder than I thought it would be, it stirred a surprising and welcome rush of gratitude, affection, and hope for the world. I’d love to see the 40 Beloved Things of Jack…

  • I’m done adulting. I’m olding instead.

    Three secret steps to be as old as you want to be. I’ve watched with compassion as millennials and others struggle to learn “adulting” skills, and I dimly recall when I, too, was learning those skills. The struggle has faded in memory, along with the absurd dissipation, unfortunate liaisons, wild travels, and extravagant decisions of the…

  • “Don’t know much about history…”

    Sam Cooke wrote the song that begins with this line in 1960, and a procession of diverse artists have covered it since then. If you are from the right generation (the huge cohort that followed the “Greatest Generation” and thus were destined, by definition, to be inferior), then you have probably heard this song, and…