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From Master Lu San
There is great expense in preparing for such austere moments. It is not only the expenditure of money, it is the waste of human lives all for the purpose of appeasing our arrogance. Such are people like ourselves. Two pompous fools of ceremony and pageantry. And in the end, we are but fools growing older… Continue reading
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Birch tree
Quite a day today. I woke up very early but ready to roll on the journal. A lot got done. Then later but still pretty early in the morning, I got outside and took care of Wednesday business. Everything’s growing. But when I took a walk into the forest, I found a birch tree lying… Continue reading
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Robert Cohn
These are Hemingway’s words. These are the first two sentences of the book Fiesta or The Sun Also Rises. I have read this book probably more than I have read any other single piece of material with a few exceptions. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve read Kung Fu Panda or Casablanca or… Continue reading
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Phoning it in
There was a moment here while doing some early morning work on the Utopian when I realized that there was a definite difference between the creative work and the bureaucratic structural work. When thinking about writing projects, it’s almost always a flash of an idea and then the tedium of doing the job. The same… Continue reading
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The smell of fresh coffee
The Sunday morning breakfast meeting is being changed to Sunday afternoon brunch or Sunday evening dinner. Gardening is the rule of the day and we are putting sweet potatoes, artichokes and asparagus in the garden. The watering system works, the air is clean and quiet, only the mosquitoes that I seem to be breeding are… Continue reading
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Sunday morning fire meeting
Good morning good morning, good morning. I know this is a little earlier for some of you than you are comfortable with. But that’s what makes this a great newspaper.It’s not necessarily a great newspaper. It’s a newspaper and it might be great but we cannot say empirically that it is already great. I read… Continue reading
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Good Shabbos
Well what do you know? We pulled it off. There was an argument about whether the two middle segments of the last page weren’t the same as the previous week. It turns out they are exactly the same as the second edition. But this was not a failure of the editorial staff. The problem is… Continue reading
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Back in business
Good morning. Happy Friday and we’re not quite done yet. Yesterday I put a good solid dent in things and I’ve got a nice combination of creative work and bureaucratic make work to finish this number. Though it is not finished yet, you’re welcome to look and the new link can be found here: The… Continue reading
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Just in case
I don’t remember if I posted anything today. If I didn’t, today was a pretty good day. We made good headway on this journal. I think we’re going to make it. And we have this new blog. Things are happening. There’s optimism. That’s it. I didn’t really want to say more. I just have one… Continue reading
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Dietary ideas
We do this to express affection. I understand that Thursday is Torah day, nonetheless I am just after midnight and watching Tompopo again. It’s not vegan but it’s compelling. And a truly beautiful film with a long tail that stays with you forever and appears again and again and in strangest moments. And as I… Continue reading
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