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The Artist and the Ego

When it comes to creativity there are two virtues you hear praised over and over again: vision and action. Michelangelo is famously quoted as saying, “I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.” That’s the blessing and curse of every artist: the ability to…

Ego

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The Artist and the Ego
The Artist and the Ego
Ego

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Oct 29, 2020

THE LINE

The Declaration of Independence includes this fairly remarkable statement: “We hold these truths to be self-evident.” I’m jealous of their assurance. If you look around at the world today, if you talk to anyone, I think the one common thread of the descent into our current chaos is that no…

Truth

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THE LINE
THE LINE
Truth

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Apr 25, 2020

Button Pushers

A friend reposted something on Facebook the other day, an anonymous screed essentially telling people to chill out with the online arguing and offering a call for humility and empathy in these trying times: “All of us need to calm down. Quit telling people who are financially struggling that they…

Covid-19

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Button Pushers
Button Pushers
Covid-19

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Apr 14, 2020

Hart Island, Easter 2020

a hymn — There’s an island in New York where they lay the dead to rest, those unclaimed deceased whose coffins stack three-deep within a trench. Easter weekend, how they dig. Lay the bodies in their tombs. Hospitals like Christmas inns, no ventilators and no rooms. You’ve heard it called a potter’s field…

Covid-19

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Hart Island, Easter 2020
Hart Island, Easter 2020
Covid-19

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Oct 17, 2019

Imagine…

Imagine a world where you wake up at 7 or 8am and get your morning coffee or tea. Maybe walk the dog or jog if that’s your thing, or skip straight to the shower if it isn’t. …

Mental Health

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Imagine…
Imagine…
Mental Health

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Apr 18, 2019

Cathedrals Are Burning

Notre Dame burned the other day. The world mourned. In the days to follow, wealthy donors reached out to offer assistance for the restoration of the glorious architecture and works of art that were damaged in the blaze. Among those to offer assistance was the U.S. White House. When I…

Notre Dame

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Cathedrals Are Burning
Cathedrals Are Burning
Notre Dame

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Jul 2, 2018

Icebergs

(Note: Originally written in June of 2017, I promptly forgot about this little piece. But I like it so much I’m posting it a year late.) There are icebergs floating past. Here in St. John’s, Newfoundland it happens every year. I found out about it in all the guide books…

Newfoundland

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Icebergs
Icebergs
Newfoundland

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May 14, 2017

Oh, How We Need Grace.

GRACE. — My whole life I’ve had this complicated relationship with the word. It’s my name, so it’s a word I hear over and over again to the point that sometimes it loses all meaning. Then, of course, there’s the fact that it’s a word with many meanings. I would often hear…

Grace

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Oh, How We Need Grace.
Oh, How We Need Grace.
Grace

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Jan 19, 2017

Pandora’s Box 2017

I didn’t hear the ending to the story of “Pandora’s Box” until I was twenty years old. Before then this was all I knew: Pandora is given a box (really a jar, the purists reminded me) that contains all the horrors of the world, and she opens it and lets…

Pandoras Box

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Pandora’s Box 2017
Pandora’s Box 2017
Pandoras Box

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Dec 21, 2016

LIGHT: a memory of Paris

Paris, France. February 2006. We’ve woken before the sun, which should be just fine as this is the City of Light. That must be Paris proper, though, nearer the city center. Here in the outskirts, the far-flung reaches near Disneyland where hotels pander to cheap tourists like us, there’s no…

Paris

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LIGHT: a memory of Paris
LIGHT: a memory of Paris
Paris

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