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America’s Best Idea
On January 6th, 2021, our Capitol was breached by a group of individuals claiming "the people's" house for their own. It is a day that will be written into our national history as one of tremendous significance, but just what we say about it remains to be seen....
Love and Loss: An Ode to 2020
It is loss, not possession, that delivers us to the essence of things. This has been a lifelong lesson. I am a connoisseur of loss, not by choice, but by nature and history. As I child, I felt deeply and therefore felt losses deeply. This, coupled with a tumultuous...
Scrooge’s Ghost
I am four years old. This is deep memory, the membrane stretched, gossamer-thin, over a reality I no longer inhabit. A young child’s world, full of wonder, danger, and mystery. Impressions linger: flour dusted over the countertops (did I sneak into the kitchen at...
Happiness: A Question
Happiness. What exactly is it? Webster tells me it's "the state of being happy," and provides the telling example, "she struggled to find happiness in her life." From this I conclude two things: happiness is self-referential and most commonly identified by its...
Why Boredom Matters
Boredom. The scourge of childhood. At least, it used to be. I remember long drives in the backseat of the car, all the way across the country with only the horizon for company. Telephone wires that looped up and down, up and down. Static on the radio. Windows rolled...
The Good Shepherd
Jon Linton sees people. That’s what he does for a living and for a life, seeing people who haven’t experienced being seen in days, months, even years. And in seeing them, he redeems them – and himself. The I Have A Name Project was born on the streets of...
Vinyl: The Ultimate Analog Artifact
Vinyl. Is there anything more quintessentially "analog" than the LP? It's the first thing that comes to mind when we think of the term, most obviously because of the technology itself. A stylus in motion interacts with a groove to create electrical impulses that are...
Analog RX for Anxious Times
An election that could break America. A global pandemic. Fires, hurricanes, and the ticking time bomb of catastrophic, exponential climate effects. Protests, riots, polarized politics, poisonous discourse. Take your pick. If you’re anything like me and find...
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Baggins, who was feeling positively flummoxed, and was beginning to wonder whether a most wretched adventure had not come right into his house…
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