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These Are Days
Natalie Merchant / 10,000 Maniacs These are days you’ll remember. Never before and never since, I promise will the whole world be warm as this and as you feel it, you’ll know it’s true that you are blessed and lucky. It’s true that you are touched by something that will grow and bloom in you. … Continue reading
Campaign Furniture by David Carriere
“Imagine if Aleksandr Baranof, a Russian fur trader who would become governor of Alaska in the early 1800s, had been stranded on a voyage in the Aleutian Islands. Using native woods, such as western red cedar, the exotic woods found onboard his marooned ship, and the expertise of his crew, what would he construct? These … Continue reading
Mike Myers + Deepak Chopra = no kidding
On a long airplane flight from Germany to the US the other day, I watched an episode in a documentary series from Sundance Channel called Iconoclasts: Joe Berlinger, Director 2007 | 60 min In this episode, comedian and actor Mike Myers meets with author, physician and philosopher Deepak Chopra in New York to consider the … Continue reading
Topography
— a poem by Sharon Olds, The Gold Cell, Knopf (1987) After we flew across the country we got into bed, laid our bodies delicately together, like maps laid face to face, East to West, my San Francisco against your New York, your Fire Island against my Sonoma, my New Orleans deep in your Texas, … Continue reading
