Box 57 & Beyond
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Today is March 14, 2024. I was going to go through and delete all the contents on this website and stop paying for it. But then… I started to look through what I was trying to do years ago and found this “manifesto” I posted 8 years ago.
If I remember correctly, it was a […]
They outlawed Santa. He was no longer out of fashion, or not as popular as he once was, he was illegal. It was illegal to wrap a present and write on the label “From: Santa.” It was illegal to say that you believed in Santa or to tell others to believe. Bills were introduced, debates […]
NOTE: I have tried to make it a yearly tradition to write a yearly Christmas story for my friends. See: “Jungle Bells,” “The Nefarious History of a Former Christmas Tree,” and “The Christmas Crows.” This year the story seems a bit of a downer, but it was an attempt to give voice to some of […]
Doesn’t look like I am going to post something every 1.somethingorrather days. This doesn’t mean I’m not writing, or feeling AGOG at any number of things. William Stafford wrote about the necessity of “launching many expendable efforts” and I realize that so many of the things that I start, or attempt, don’t work. But dammit, […]
Falconers have a word for hawks in the mood to slay: they call the bird in yarak. The books say it comes from the Persian yaraki, meaning power, strength and boldness.
pg. 178, H is for HAWK by Helen Macdonald
John Dewey wrote that “we don’t learn from experience, we learn from reflecting on experience.”
This month I’ve written about the words: August, (the silent) B, context, delay, elephant, fallible, grit, Habakkuk 2:2, idioms, Juniper trees, ka, lichen, mono, nausea, orgasm, Ponderosa pine, quixotic, relax, sisters, typewriter, understatement, verb, white, xenophobia, yearn, and zigzag.
Tomorrow […]
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