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Material Reflection
Some years ago, I bought out my lease and moved with little time to spare. I sold what I could. I piled everything into a small room in a new house. There was no room to walk. It was night and the floor was a dark ocean. I laid on my bare mattress, floating. … […]
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On Essays (and Cookies)
Good writing is sort of like a cookie. And there are two types of cookies: plain and chunky. Plain cookies can be good. But the best cookies are chunky. It’s more challenging to make a plain cookie. Maybe plain is the wrong word. Maybe I’m thinking of something uniform, lacking inclusions. Imagine a ginger bread […]
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The Most Important Things—a bundle of metaphors
It’s late Sunday evening, the night before I begin my move across the country from Washington to Texas. I’m sitting on the floor of my nearly empty room, feeling out of place even when my eyes are closed because the empty walls are echoing differently. The rain is falling gently, and my roommates are asleep […]
Curious Red Thread 