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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...
Wednesday, December 17, 2025

Tea (poem) by Leila Chatti

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Five times a day, I make tea. I do this because I like the warmth in my hands, like the feeling of self-directed kindness. I’m not used to i...
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