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by Mike Power

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  • Plague Diary – Day 365

    Total confirmed cases in US: 29,495,907 365 days ago when I wrote my first plague diary there were 3,774 confirmed cases in the US. Since then, the covid-19 pandemic cut a rough path through some unmapped territory in the human psyche. At first, it was terrifying but novel, then it became sorrowful and several new Read more

  • Oliver

    There are few things as exciting as dawn arriving in a home with new life in it. Every parent knows the sensation of waking up to the sound of a newborn’s cry, or a little before it in anticipation. It is a sunrise that shines through any storm. It is a song that plays through Read more

  • Pity The Nation

    Lawrence Ferlinghetti was 101 years old when he died last Monday. He was born in Yonkers but is considered a San Franciscan since he made that city his home for the last 7 decades of his life. His father died of a heart attack before he was born and his mother was committed to a Read more

  • Needing, Wanting, Acquiring, and Letting Go

    We start with nothing, in a pool of blood, gasping for air. We need. We need to breathe, to drink, to eat, to move, to learn, and to retain that knowledge. We need things like shelter and clothing, and makes life more enjoyable if those things are comfortable, and stylish, and if they enhance our Read more

  • A One-Way Ticket to Mars

    “This is a sign – NASA works. We put our arms together, and our hands together, and our brains together, we can succeed. This what NASA does. This is what we can do as a country, on all of the problems we have, we need to work together to do these kinds of things and Read more

  • Building Palaces

    There is no place now that is safe for my gaze No soft landing for my eyes   Once things turn hard it’s hard to make them soft again   It’s cold enough to crack my lips and fill my lungs with frozen molecules of whatever it takes to build these palaces to winter   Read more