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Poetry Matters: October 2014
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Poetry Book Reviews and Interviews. Thursday, October 9, 2014. Interview with Sherry Chandler. I eat them from a bowl, lick. Their succulence from my thumb and finger,. Tongue the whorls and pads, suck. My own sweet flesh, linger. In the feedback loop of warm and wet. 8212; from “Medjool Dates,” Sherry Chandler. Sherry Chandler’s work has appeared in many magazines and anthologies, including The Louisville Review. The William and Mary Review. The Woodcarver’s Wife. She has degrees from. I first met Sherr...
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DAWords: October 2013
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Every day you have less reason not to give yourself away." - Wendell Berry. Monday, October 14, 2013. Michael Sandel is a professor of Government at Harvard, and has written extensively about the relationships between ethics, government, economics and justice. His latest book is What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets. His primary assertion is that America no longer operates in a market economy. Beyond the damage it does to particular goods, commercialism erodes commonality. We see this when we...
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DAWords: January 2011
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Every day you have less reason not to give yourself away." - Wendell Berry. Monday, January 24, 2011. 8220;Now let me suggest…that if we are to have peace on earth, our loyalties must become ecumenical rather than sectional. Our loyalties must transcend our race, our tribe, our class, and our nation, and this means we must develop a world perspective. No individual can live alone; no nation can live alone, and as long as we try, the more we are going to have war in this world. Monday, January 10, 2011.
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DAWords: December 2012
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Every day you have less reason not to give yourself away." - Wendell Berry. Thursday, December 20, 2012. My daily commute includes three choices on the car radio:. NPR for news, ESPN for sports, and a public broadcasting rock station (a unique genre, by the way). I have avoided the NPR button of late. The primary news item is the killing of 20 school children in a Connecticut elementary school. Such news only weighs on my shoulders and creates pain in my chest. Or all of the above. From which we derive t...
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DAWords: October 2012
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Every day you have less reason not to give yourself away." - Wendell Berry. Sunday, October 14, 2012. It would be nice to see at least one game in each series be played with retro uniforms. The flannel would be warmer this time of year! Wednesday, October 10, 2012. A new online journal, museum of americana. For the first publication. You can check it out, along with other prose, poems, and photographs, here. Sunday, October 07, 2012. End of the Season, 2012. So much for my baseball analysis skills. Dbqp ...
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DAWords: The civic cost of Inequality
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Every day you have less reason not to give yourself away." - Wendell Berry. Sunday, March 10, 2013. The civic cost of Inequality. S book, Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do? Sandel, Michael. Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do? Farrar, Straus and Giroux.). The hollowing out of the public realm.' As government is increasingly viewed as 'the problem', rather than part of our society that provides governance and contributes to the social fabric, we are reaching that condition. View my complete profile.
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DAWords: November 2010
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Every day you have less reason not to give yourself away." - Wendell Berry. Saturday, November 27, 2010. Unemployment rate for those with bachelors degree:. Unemployment rate for those with less than high school:. Headline from New York Times on Tuesday:. 8220; Corporate Profits Were the Highest on Record Last Quarter”. Two lessons emerge from this information. How does the private sector repay us when the economy climbs off the bottom of the hole? Second lesson: stay in school. If you are not ready ...
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DAWords: August 2012
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Every day you have less reason not to give yourself away." - Wendell Berry. Sunday, August 26, 2012. The top leader in the organization is replaced. The faces around you on the team begin to change. The organization, in the words of management, is ‘going in a different direction.’. New strategies are drawn up, a new playbook is devised. The organization begins to lose the previous players as the work load and game plans shift to new leadership, who wish to bring in their own players. They are not making ...
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DAWords: March 2013
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Every day you have less reason not to give yourself away." - Wendell Berry. Sunday, March 17, 2013. 8216;All this time I was leading another life. And it is clear now which was the shadow and which. Was the substance…’. Gerald Stern, ‘Crosshatching’. I have memories that make me cringe. They run the gamut from acts to statements, from truly harmful to simply stupid. Some get dug up from childhood, some may have occurred in the past few days. Throwing dirt in a brother’s face. Stern’s poem steers aw...
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DAWords: Shadows
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Every day you have less reason not to give yourself away." - Wendell Berry. Sunday, March 17, 2013. 8216;All this time I was leading another life. And it is clear now which was the shadow and which. Was the substance…’. Gerald Stern, ‘Crosshatching’. I have memories that make me cringe. They run the gamut from acts to statements, from truly harmful to simply stupid. Some get dug up from childhood, some may have occurred in the past few days. Throwing dirt in a brother’s face. Stern’s poem steers aw...
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