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Failure As Fertilizer for Hope

This.  From Kay Ryan’s The Best of It: New and Selected Poems. [Post image: What cows eat by nosheep on stock.xchng]

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Why It Matters

“Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. The cataclysm has happened, we are among the ruins, we start to build up new little habitats, to have new little hopes. It is rather hard work: there is no new road into the future: but we go round, or scramble over […]

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Gray Works Magic

We kids (there were seven of us!) entered lots of art contests growing up.  I won a 12-speed bike in an Easter coloring contest sponsored by our local hardware store.  My brother Matt won some money…and a party up in the penthouse of the Science Museum of Minnesota (at the old location) for his colored […]

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