Apr 27, 2015 | Uncategorized
— From EF — Touch is amazingly powerful. It can’t be packaged or monetized or tweeted — you have to get the real thing, in person. There’s a subset of child abuse that’s labeled “failure to thrive,” and one of its big elements appears to be an absence of loving touch....
Mar 30, 2015 | Uncategorized
— From EF — Sheba came home this morning . Not the “little Sheba” of the 1950 William Inge play — this is our beloved whale of a Dodge Maxivan, and she had gone across the street to visit the neighbors for the weekend. (We needed every inch of parking space for our...
Feb 23, 2015 | Uncategorized
— From CB — Saturday we celebrated the 2nd birthday of Junah, our friends’ daughter. Sunday we celebrated Elizabeth’s 75th. Junah is luminous, shy. Elizabeth is luminous, less shy. Depending on one’s fortunes, life may take a very long time. Sometimes...
Feb 9, 2015 | Uncategorized
— From EF — The Goldberg Infundibulum. Or, if you prefer, the Chronosynclastic Variations. There are times when I’m going along, minding my own business, and suddenly a word or a phrase comes leaping down from a low-hanging branch and snarls all its paws in my hair. I...
Feb 2, 2015 | Uncategorized
— From the Fool — My friend Luce said she really liked what I wrote last week, I think because I mentioned her dog. “You oughta get your stuff published,” she said, “There’s a lotta wisdom in there.” I never thought about that. I...
Jan 11, 2015 | Uncategorized
— From EF — A friend of a dear friend is doing studies in creativity for the use of young artists just entering their life-path. The previous one was about achieving creative longevity; the new one considers the process of decision-makings. She gets responses to a...
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