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A Love Grows at Home in Us All

Dec 01, 2011 10 Comments by

Like a peacock drawing in its feathers, one atop another, such that one can no longer tell exactly what it is, he woke abruptly from his dream. Like many of them, this one reminded him of how he could but did not feel. It recollected a vanished or vanquished feeling (he did not know which, [...]

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An Accident in DC

Jul 27, 2011 No Comments by

I first heard the cop car, its siren blaring, before I saw it. My eyes were focused on the road in front of me and the very next intersection as I kept a close look on both to make sure my bike tires steered clear of any of the usual shrapnel you find on DC roads…

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The Passage of Emotion

Jan 16, 2011 No Comments by

Under the leaves I find the words I buried there

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The Indiscreet Harm of the Bourgeoisie

Dec 15, 2010 4 Comments

Few better conspicuous indicators are there of the positive correlation between moral bankruptcy, opportunism, lassitude, hypocrisy, equivocation, duplicity, self-deceit, or egocentricity – in short, failure – and financial wealth than the wearing of the skin of sentient and arguably emotional animals raised in pens barely greater in length than their bodies, and slaughtered by anally-inserted [...]

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Congestion Charging in Washington, DC

Jun 26, 2010 No Comments

Through today, June 26, the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments has issued a Code Orange Air Quality Alert on nine days this month. The U.S. National Weather Service tells us that, “A Code Orange air quality alert means that air pollution concentrations within the region may become unhealthy for sensitive groups. Sensitive groups include children… [...]

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