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  • Expect Nothing

    Photo by Gisela Merkuur on Pixabay And look for miracles I was 16, a brand-new driver, casually over-confident behind the wheel. And that night, I was driving my Volkswagen Beetle a dozen miles or so down the two-lane blacktop, between the city and the suburb where I lived. As I approached a railroad crossing, my mind was…

  • Two Rivers

    photograph by adrian on unsplash It’s Complicated: Lit Up & The Writing Cooperative Contest It used to be that world and heighthad made your face a frozen stream,and ice and rock were poor disguisefor waters rushing black beneath,so cold they’d burn whoever ventured there. But down and down and further down (with gravity or other hid device)the…

  • 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…

  • In praise of the heart of life

    It’s under there, somewhere, the beating heart of the life that we all share. Photo by Devin Avery on Unsplash It’s beneath the skin — the infinitely variegated surfaces that each individual shines up or oils down or covers with glitter or costume or camouflage. It’s coequal with the head — the egg-shaped knobs that we each fill with wildly differing…

  • “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…