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maxeymenges | Maxey Menges
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The Roar of the Night. August 27, 2016. It’s assuredly late August. I just successfully escorted several crickets out of the house. With such altruism I assure another evening, another year next of late summer night song. It also reminded me of a lovely editorial I read a decade or more ago in the New York Times. It comes to mind every late August. I’d like to share it here:. It is, of course, not a true song, but the rasping together of wings held straight up from the body. For all I know, they coul...
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Extra Time with Jutta | Maxey Menges
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Extra Time with Jutta. July 5, 2014. July 5, 2014. Pearl s buck society. Have you followed the World Cup, Sister? My sister, Jutta and I have floundered to find words and ways to describe nearly five decades of separation. Since she discovered my posts seven years ago, we’ve struggled to connect; that is, to essentially, effectively convey who we are; what has made us the people we are before suddenly thrust upon each other as strangers. I asked; born in Deutschland of. Here they’re wearing the USA shiel...
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social stigma | Maxey Menges
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September 22, 2014. Pearl s buck society. I hold no canon, no interest in theism, astrology, numerology, any mysticism. I witness only an existential. To this life. Accordingly 55 years late my certificate of birth arrived today. Perhaps a thank you is in order for that anonymous neighbor tipping authorities to the fact a baby was born in that house and. Alluding to even more unholy transaction. Maybe neighborhood NAZIs have their place, an extralegal purpose, if not a moral order. I have also an ornate,...
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My Transcendental Quixote Moment | Maxey Menges
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My Transcendental Quixote Moment. December 17, 2014. An excerpt from an untitled work in progress. I wrote this five years ago upon returning to the hometown I never knew. I thought it the perfect time to return to my German “. 8220;, home town. It felt instinctually right or “. 8220;, which in German has significant connotations – a moral reasoning, entitlement, as Kant dissected it. Holds great importance in the language and was my motivation. Mother’s home. My immediate future decided by. Who insisted...
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bastard | Maxey Menges
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September 22, 2014. Pearl s buck society. I hold no canon, no interest in theism, astrology, numerology, any mysticism. I witness only an existential. To this life. Accordingly 55 years late my certificate of birth arrived today. Perhaps a thank you is in order for that anonymous neighbor tipping authorities to the fact a baby was born in that house and. Alluding to even more unholy transaction. Maybe neighborhood NAZIs have their place, an extralegal purpose, if not a moral order. I have also an ornate,...
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Memories of the Queen | Maxey Menges
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Memories of the Queen. October 14, 2014. Maybe marriage is really special. Certainly it’s still held in high esteem. Not a week since our sixteenth anniversary, I’m still receiving the loveliest notes, congratulations. But please, I know people who’ve been married longer than many of my current friends’ have been alive. These people scoff at sixteen years. They see it and double down on us. Some sent us congratulations. Maybe they know this as well. I look down at my bureau. The Queen’s looking back ...
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immigration | Maxey Menges
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September 22, 2014. Pearl s buck society. I hold no canon, no interest in theism, astrology, numerology, any mysticism. I witness only an existential. To this life. Accordingly 55 years late my certificate of birth arrived today. Perhaps a thank you is in order for that anonymous neighbor tipping authorities to the fact a baby was born in that house and. Alluding to even more unholy transaction. Maybe neighborhood NAZIs have their place, an extralegal purpose, if not a moral order. I have also an ornate,...
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