Road Trip Thoughts

Through this all, I couldn’t bring myself to document the damage with my camera…It was enough just to see what was what…So on I drove. All the way around the island…through the Strand…Along Broadway…And finally over the new Causeway…And here was where the totality of the destruction hit me…

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Muses For The Last Day Of The Old Era?

Pre-Election Day Twenty O’Eight While everyone else is focusing on the election tomorrow, Bush and Company are getting a lot of the agenda they tried to pass and failed to

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Maybe Autumn Does Exist In This World…

For the first time in the back half of the year it really does feel like autumn this morning…We are even feeling like the mountains I long for… Alvin, TX

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Faustian economics: Hell hath no limits—By Wendell Berry (Harper’s Magazine)

Anything Wendell Berry writes is worth the time it takes to digest…My recommendation is to go spend some time today with the man… The general reaction to the apparent end

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Living the Good Life

CARSON, NEW MEXICO—When the wind comes up the mesa, which it often does, there is a particular rusted-out old car nearby that whispers the same eerie, long-toned question every time:

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