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One M's Musings and Occasional Insights
Sunday, May 24, 2026
End of Life
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My mom seems to be in late stages of dementia. My sisters and I are in high gear trying to prepare to move her to memory care (her worst nig...
Wednesday, April 29, 2026
A good dream
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Last night, I was in bed by 8 and asleep before 9. That's a good night. And as a reward, I had the BEST dream, long and detailed, abou...
Sunday, April 26, 2026
Joy is Such a Human Madness: The Duff Between Us (essay) by Ross Gay
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Or, like this: in healthy forests, which we might imagine to exist mostly above ground, and be wrong in our imagining, given as the bulk of ...
Grown (essay) by Ross Gay
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I suspect it is simply a feature of being an adult, what I will call being grown, or a grown person, to have endured some variety of thorou...
Thursday, March 05, 2026
Pablo Neruda poems on time
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Excerpt from "Morning" time was like never and always: We go where nothing is expected and find everything waiting there. From on...
Sunday, February 22, 2026
State of the State Address for Illinois in 2026
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Illinois Governor JB Pritzker delivered this state of the state address on Feb. 18, 2026 . Full address here . Excerpt: "I have joked ...
Wednesday, February 04, 2026
Some Thoughts on Mercy (essay) by Ross Gay
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The Sun Magazine July 2013 Garden Bees Traffic stop
Adrift (poem) by Mark Nepo
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Everything is beautiful and I am so sad. This is how the heart makes a duet of wonder and grief. The light spraying through the lace of the ...
Homelessness Is a Housing Problem, and Zoning Is [One of] Housing's Problems
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This poem summarizes the downstream impact of City Councilors saying no to every possible policy solution to the upstream causes of homeles...
Sunday, January 25, 2026
Transient and Permanent
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Today's sermon by visiting minister the Rev. Nathan Ryan from Baton Rouge challenged us not to be distracted by the intentional overwhel...
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