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  • Vote!

    Vote!

    As we come down to the wire this election day, our country desperately needs its young people to vote. People in their 50s, 60s, and 70s WILL be voting and they will be voting for the world they grew up in, a world that doesn’t exist anymore. It is dangerous and irresponsible to let their… Read more

  • Music

    Music

    Music isn’t just singing and the playing of instruments It is wind and water It even lives in silence It is the silence of a leaf falling in the dirt and two tender hearts falling for each other I hear it when I am talking to myself She plays her voice like a violin and… Read more

  • Life Begins at 40

    Life Begins at 40

    Life does not begin at 40. Neither is 40 the new 30 (or new 50 for that matter). 40 is the same 40 it has always been. It is a nice round number and, as an age, it is as good as any that comes after it, and most of the ones that came before.… Read more

  • 22,000 Days

    22,000 Days

    Today – on the 22nd day of a month in the 22nd year of a century and a millennium – I am exactly 22,000 days old. That is a lot of days. Some dates stand out for their joy and beauty: March 2, 1981…June 9, 1990…August 26, 1995…August 6, 2022 Others stand out for their… Read more

  • When I Found Her

    When I Found Her

    When I found her She was hanging on the side of a cliff I held her hand as long as I could But time and pressure took their toll And when she slipped out of my grasp I expected her to fall Instead, I floated away Read more

  • Missing Piece

    Missing Piece

    She needed to take a shower, I remember. We both did. Not together, even though I would have enjoyed that. It would have been a disruption to a relationship that we both worked so hard to make undisruptable. “What it comes down to,” I told her, “is that if there is anything of value to… Read more