The Hastings Cutoff is not a familiar landmark, and it is a road few had traveled by the summer of 1846. Looking at a modern picture of where the Cutoff diverges from the main California Trail makes me think about Robert Frost’s poem “The Road Not Taken,” which speaks of the author’s finding a fork […]
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She makes me remember Craft and magic, Art and artistry. I am again Creator and created – Changed by the words I write; Changing those who read These idle thoughts about a girl from long ago Grown into strength, wisdom, And warm wit. *** Tracy Linder considers herself the proverbial “Jack of all trades, Master of
I took my daughter and her boyfriend to dinner at a place called Joe’s Crab Shack. Strategically installed near the entrance to the town’s first shopping mall, Joe’s presented thousands of winking lights that glanced off reproduced tin signs promoting products unavailable since the ’50s, taped music of the Beatles and the Bee Gees, fancifully
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Upon the ground spreads Brave pioneer of the desert sands Paddle-shaped stems In spiny armor Look as if plant fit for here But a closer look in fact Can deceive Upon its crests display Tender yellow crepe paper blossoms Aglow from sun at highest strength In prosperity over harsh climate Teaches one of nature’s great
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Nut turns twelve today as he walks down the rainy street from his training camp toward his village’s boxing ring. His shin splints ache with each step, but he’s grown accustomed to it. Like many Thai children his age, he has already trained in his country’s national martial art, Muay Thai, for several years. Muay
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They actually get paid for what they do, busily marking up giant sheets of Post-it and ripping them off to slap on the conveniently broad swathes of bland wall space. We, their captives, mostly play nice, vapid salvos hurled that add nothing much, maybe even depleting the imperiled supply of collective intelligence tidepooling here —