The Sky is Falling

Some days are sky’s -a -fallin’ days. This is one of them. One headline too many and I wonder if a linen sky would be cool in summer and wrinkle like my black (of course) pants.

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Bearing Witness

The poet, Paul Celan, was described by his biographer John Felstiner, as a poet who wrote brilliantly about destruction, the Holocaust in Celan’s case. He had used poetry, the biographer said, to create “a language for the unsayable.”

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Asphalt Art

Asphalt is the sticky, black petroleum based binder for the crushed stone, gravel, sand, or any other aggregate particles that make up road construction or the surface of parking lots. I didn’t know that it was an artist’s tool until Read the rest