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Other People’s Words: “The Calf Path”
This poem by Sam Walter Foss was just far too interesting not to keep around for myself and to share with others. Entitled “The Calf Path,” it offers a fun story while quietly urging us to always question conventional wisdom. One day thru the primeval wood A calf walked home, as good calves should; But […]
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From the past: Vote for me in 2024
Considering the merits of my former blogs while working on my current one, I went back and looked at some of what I’d written. To call most of it a little embarrassing is probably understating the truth. This piece, however, was something that I thought still had some slight personal and public merit. It is […]
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Meeting William Stafford
This is not about the time that I met the late and great poet William Stafford. Though we shared six years on this earth, I never got that chance. This is rather about the metaphorical meeting that great poetry can convince you you have had. There are poems that you read which resonate. About which […]
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Dispatches from the Field: Land Speed Record
Dispatches from the Field is our ongoing series of reports from our intrepid traveling reporter Steve Finch. This week, some insight on the most famously reclusive animals on the planet. In the history of the world, there has only been one land mammal faster than the cheetah. What creature is so incredibly fast and nonchalant […]
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After Bush: How to Restore America’s Place in the World
Our (that is to say the United State’s) requirement that all presidents must be natural-born is patently absurd. Though the first person to make me reconsider this rule was Arnold Schwarzenegger, who has shown himself to be an incredibly bipartisan and wise Republican in recent times, it is actually Fareed Zakaria, the Newsweek columnist and […]