December 2005
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How I Blog
HOW do YOU Blog? It’s a textual thing. Pure text with some inline CSS. No graphics required. Frank Paynter at Sandhill Trek is collecting posts on How Do You Blog, complete with this very cool text graphic from Mandarin Design. How do I blog? Difficult to answer on this stubbornly blank day. When I’m less… Continue reading
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This is a new game
This is a new game. The rules have changed. You choose, in general outline, your character. Perhaps last time you were the king with the magic sword and the unfaithful wife, a hard and powerful life. The time before, a dragon, with a mouth full of fire.This is a new game. You will be a… Continue reading
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Santa Lucia Day
I meet this winter without celebration, as the man who was dying, but now lives, greets the ants that pass through his kitchen in narrow, undisturbed rows. When the child with her crown of candles comes to my door in her white dress, singing, I watch the delicate notes disperse in pale cold light, like… Continue reading
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Winter Monday
A waft of garlic seeps into this sunroom from my neighbor’s kitchen. Chickadees and nuthatches flit up and down up and down from the limbs of the lilac tree. Sun spots dingy snow. The budgies watch from their cage without longing. Continue reading
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The War on Christmas
Thankfully, we do have efforts to counteract the extremists in our religions: Progressive Faith Blog-Con, via Velveteen Rabbi CrossWalk America: Where Christian Compassion Meets Progressive Action Muslim leaders warn of ‘crisis’ [click image to embiggen] Continue reading

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