If you have thought —
This is dirty
This is broken
This is wrong
And decided to help —
Scrub it
Repair it
Right it
You may be an adult.
The Adult Test
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Sadie! Sadie!
Hadda dream that Zadie Smith asked me to babysit two kittens. She and her husband, an older Jewish man, had somewhere to go. He was
Tolkien’s Errantry
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No It Won’t
I don’t think that quotation means what we think it means. Beauty will not save the world and anyway Dostoevsky didn’t say it and anyways
Take Up Do
In my mid-20s — half an age (mine) and still nearly nil on maturity ago — I noticed a thing that at the time was
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Pieta
I don’t think next year will be so different from this year. Which after all was not so different from the one before. But I
No Words
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Why Not Two Cupcakes?
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Once Upon A Time
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If Tim Tebow never plays another down as an NFL Quarterback it won’t be because he can’t. It will be because they say he can’t.
Whispers and Words
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Everyone’s From Somewhere
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On (Not) Using Words
Preach the gospel at all times. If necessary, use words. Quick now — who said that? Me. Just now. Weren’t you paying attention? The saying