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Our summer clothes
“My best friend’s name was Gil. We used to blaze down the sidewalks around here on our bikes with no-hands, cutting and weaving. I thought I was invincible, but Gil, Gil had a death wish. Everything I could do he …
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Total Number of Articles: 5
First Article on this Page: February 3, 2023
Latest Article on this Page: May 5, 2023
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Open Edges: What kind of times are these?
“I won’t tell you where the place is, the dark mesh of the woods
meeting the unmarked strip of light—
ghost-ridden crossroads, leafmold paradise:
I know already who wants to buy it, sell it, make it disappear.” – Adrienne Rich…
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Chronos feasts on his children
“The dead surround the living. The living are the core of the dead. In this core are the dimensions of time and space. What surrounds the core is timelessness.” – John Berger
Crouched, drawing circles in the dirt with his …
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Storyteller
“Nothing remained unchanged but the clouds, and beneath these clouds, in a field of force of destructive torrents and explosions, was the tiny, fragile human body.” – Walter Benjamin
Endless fields, meadows and rolling hills stretch towards the horizon, where …
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Open Edges: What time is it?
“We are not points on a line; rather, we are the centers of circles.” – John Berger
Sometimes I wear a watch, but never to tell the time. Last summer, every day that I was in Mt. Shasta, Calif., doing …