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Boldly Go Mr. Spock

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Guess.What.Day.It.Is?

Caleb’s baby! Source:Frans de Waal – Public Page . Thank you Horty.    

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Manguso. Magnificent.

She’s Sarah Manguso. A 41-year old writer and poet born in Massachusetts and author of the highly acclaimed memoir The Two Kinds of Decay. Karen mentioned that she “loved” Manguso’s work so that was...

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More Manguso Memories

After yesterday’s post introducing Sarah Manguso in Manguso Magnificent, we’re back with more. Sarah Manguso, Ongoingness: The End of a Diary: I assumed that maximizing the breadth and depth of my...

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9° F. March 6. When?

And then there are the times when I close my eyes and just sit there, with the breeze blowing on my face, and the light inside the air, all around me and just beyond my eyes, and the world all red, a...

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Blue

The photographer is marco andres argüello. He was born and raised in McAllen, Texas and is currently living in Miami Beach, Florida.  Be sure to check out his amazing web site here. My favorite...

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Now. Now.

As Robert Frost once wrote, “A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. It is never a thought to begin with.” I recommend the following course of action...

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A blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others

By: Lili Loofbourow, The Many Faces of Tatiana Maslany: Tatiana Maslany, the 29-year old actress, is a native of Regina, Saskatchewan. She is the leading lady on the set of “Orphan Black,” the BBC...

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Guess.What.Day.It.Is?

Notes: Sensual Starfish Background on Caleb/Wednesday/Hump Day Posts and Geico’s original commercial: Let’s Hit it Again

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But right now I’m happy, happier, ish

Michael Hainey in an interview with Steve Coogan: Comedian Steve Coogan is Happyish: MH: If you look at yourself now—a man nearing 50—what would you have said to the young Steve Coogan? SC: It’s a...

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It’s been a long day

Sometimes I grow weary with all the days, with their fits and starts. I want to climb some old gray mountain, slowly, taking the rest of my lifetime to do it, resting often, sleeping under the pines...

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Guess.What.Day.It.Is?

Notes: Photograph: Peace Flash. Thank you Horty. Background on Caleb/Wednesday/Hump Day Posts and Geico’s original commercial: Let’s Hit it Again

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Packing our bags and leaving our worst selves for our better ones

Empathy isn’t just something that happens to us—a meteor shower of synapses firing across the brain—it’s also a choice we make: to pay attention, to extend ourselves. It’s made of exertion, that...

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Mmmmmmm, yep, close.

My special talents include: jumping to the worst conclusion possible and worrying about that thing for hours. ~ Taylar Photo Source: Luca Bortolato via eikadan

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Lightly child, lightly

Every morning Swimming up out of dreams I surrender to being here I let go into gravity Into the way the sweet earth pulls me to her Head, hip, arm, leg . . . . with each exhale I drop further Into...

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That aching gap

I am still beset by the same old lusts and ego and emotions, the endless nagging details and irritations – that aching gap between what I know and what I am. ~ Peter Matthiessen, The Snow Leopard...

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It’s been a long day

Each evening comes from a new place. Maybe this is the other life we were meant to live. It leans against you as the wind. ~ Richard Jackson, from “Fear,” in Resonance: Poems Sources: photo – life is...

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What do you mean?

[…] The room is dark, and the light is on her (Dr. Wendy Fried’s) face. I see her eyes, moving around, like she’s panicking. I felt the blood draining out of my face. My lips got cold. “I’m so sorry,...

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Guess.What.Day.It.Is?

Notes: Photo: Poppins-Me Background on Caleb/Wednesday/Hump Day Posts and Geico’s original commercial: Let’s Hit it Again

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Guess.What.Day.It.Is?

Notes: Source: Buddy Venturanza Background on Caleb/Wednesday/Hump Day Posts and Geico’s original commercial: Let’s Hit it Again

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