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Starting and Restarting
[Image above is captioned: "Hoagy Carmichael* pretending to crank start a car." From the Hoagy Carmichael Collection at Indiana University.] From whiskey river, still mining the William Stafford vein (and no complaints from this quarter): The Gift Time wants to show you a different country. It’s the one that your life conceals, the one waiting [...]
Building Buildings, Building Books
A recent Murderati blog entry by Toni McGee Causey just knocked me out. Her “simple” premise: our designing and constructing the imaginative world of a book resembles an architect’s designing and constructing a real-world building. Excerpting it here would not do justice to what the piece says about buildings and books. But her conclusion is [...]
Perfect Moments: Birds of an Earnest Young Feather
How do people form their first enduring friendships, anyway — I mean, their very first friendships (like at age 5 or 6), and very enduring (like spanning decades)? Maybe it’s different now, what with parents arranging “play dates” and similar activities. But when I was a kid, these things (looking back on them now) seemed [...]
Off Balance
[Image by Jan Piller at redbubble.com. Click the image for the original/to purchase.] From whiskey river (italicized portion): Taking a walk with you lacking the wit and depth that inform our dreams’ bright landscapes, this countryside through which we walk is no less beautiful for being only what it seems. rising from the dyed pool [...]
