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Are Your Distractions Actually Inspirations?

On finding inspirations from your distractions during Covid — (Originally written for the introduction to the 11.28.2020 Weekly Atticus newsletter sent each Saturday from Atticus Review.) I’m writing this the day before Thanksgiving and the day after my birthday, 2020. The three days will be remarkably similar to one-another in that I will have done mostly the same…

Inspiration

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Published in New Skin, Made from Old

·Feb 6, 2021

Mirror Gratitude

This is the second mirror I’ve had hanging here on the back of this closet door. The first one shattered almost exactly a year ago (2/4/2020) when I put my hand into it. Twice. In quick succession. Wound up with glass all over my bedroom floor. And lodged in…

Awakening

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Published in Dog Is Us

·Dec 31, 2020

Forward/Back, Part Two, Or

A Present Such as This (Part One, Here) I used to think the looking back would bring about the looking forward, would be it’s own reward, a thing to hold on to forever, and permanent — the having done, the having sung, the having been. but even using the most…

Dogs

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Published in Dog Is Us

·Dec 21, 2020

Surrender

it is unbecoming to surrender your’n self to a Bald Man who wants to take your’n ball only to throw it forth and yon

Dogs

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Surrender

Published in New Skin, Made from Old

·Dec 19, 2020

Lean into Possibility Again

(Originally written for the introduction to the 12.19.2020 Weekly Atticus Newsletter sent each Saturday from Atticus Review.) `This will be the final Weekly Atticus of 2020. After today, we will take a three-week break and will return to our regular publishing schedule on January 11th, 2021. …

Possibility

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Published in Dog Is Us

·Dec 4, 2020

We Are Together, And

we are together, and ones who found fire together, chins held high together —

Dogs

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We Are Together, And

Published in Dog Is Us

·Nov 6, 2020

A Rome, By Any Other Name

we are lucky, Runt, to have been alive during the American blip to have taken a piss in this post-Cambrian lava drip

Dogs

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A Rome, By Any Other Name

Nov 1, 2020

We Are In That Moment Now: A Reason to Vote

(A Plea to Facebook Friends) Last month, I read a post from a FB friend Jason which I thought was a powerful personal statement about this moment in US history from the perspective of a Jewish American. His post brings up certain things I’d been thinking about and trying to…

Election 2020

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