Category: Musings
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driving into the city
There is a turn in the highway, a leveling-out, and I look up, and there it is, across the smudges of railroad tracks and marsh-brush and cords swinging in the sky: the skyline, the color of the clouds as if a sky kingdom came down to rest on this sliver of earth between the waters.…
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Two Weeks
Two weeks. That’s a long time, isn’t it? And yet I know it isn’t, and the two weeks will fly by. Funny, because last week it felt like I have the whole month ahead and now—two weeks. Time is weird. My coworkers and I would joke about how time running self-checkout took three times as…
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Everything Is Going So Slowly
Everything is going so slowly. Writing, for example. Back in high school, it felt like my writing star was ascending in an unclouded sky. I moved up the ranks of my online newspaper in exemplary fashion. I participated in NaNoWriMo and wrote a couple full-length first drafts of novels. I entered contests and won a…
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What I Wonder When Cathedrals Burn
I’ve been there. Ten years ago, exactly. I don’t remember the inside, the woodworking that’s been lost. All I remember is standing outside and looking up at the famous Rose window. But at least I know I’ve seen the ancient wood panels and roof that are now tiny bits of ash scattered over Paris, even…
A Glimpse of Starlight 