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Like My Soul

“I wanted one that said ‘black like my heart’,” my writing partner said, “but I figured this was close enough for you.” She knows me so well.

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Roll for Adulting

I finished Kenneth Stampp’s The Peculiar Institution yesterday, during a break from the Sekrit Projekt. I had to take the book in small chunks, because so much of it is sickening. If one wishes to understand America, one must look unflinchingly at chattel slavery. It’s that simple. It took a little while, sitting on the […]

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Go Straight Through

In between housework chores yesterday I finished reading Vincent Shih’s The Taiping Ideology. Interesting in and of itself, the book is also fascinating as a snapshot of Chinese studies in an American university during the late 60s. It was published in 1967, so Johnson’s escalation in Vietnam was well underway, which meant Communist China was […]

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Big Shape

On our rambles, Miss B and I come across all sorts of things. Sometimes she wishes to investigate them. Sometimes, though, it’s large machinery, and she gives me a sidelong look that says no thanks, Mum, I know better. Would that humans were as wise as this one shaggy, neurotic little Australian shepherd…

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Before Noon

THINGS I HAVE ASKED MYSELF BEFORE NOON TODAY: * Does it count as six kilometers if you had to drag an Australian shepherd for the last two because other dogs were everywhere? * …where the fuck is the tofu? * Did I turn the washer on? * No, really, where is the tofu? * Is […]

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Simply a Screen

My personal readings tend to be bifurcated. I usually blame it on being a Gemini, or having the Chariot as a patron card. At least two great beasts drive me at any particular time, and the trick is to hold the reins correctly and get everyone moving in the same direction. You can see that […]

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Message, Dream, Philosophy

The other night: The Lovers, Nine of Cups, the Devil. All in a row. It’s been a while since I got such a mirrorlike reading, and such clear message. Of course, this morning, in the long dark shoals before I had to get up, I was jolted out of a dream of Donnie Yen as […]

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An Unserious Post

One of the things I always loved doing was walking at night. Especially with a camera that functioned well in low light settings. I am, by nature, a night person. (Which surprises nobody.) Having diurnal children means I’ve been fighting my body for years now. The entire world is set up for the daytime people. […]

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Lili Reads, Part Whatever

I’ve been making a dent in my TBR lately. I finished Kenneth Stampp’s And the War Came, which details the secession crisis of 1860-61. In parts, I almost suspected Stampp of being a magnolia-eater on the scale of (the admittedly really great) Shelby Foote, and when I shifted to Stampp’s The Era of Reconstruction I […]

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Knight, Lady, Fairy, Survivalist

One of the parks I go through on long rambles/runs/sometimes bike rides recently sported this fellow. It’s a bower, or a shelter. Each time I pass it as the branches brown, I imagine a knight’s lady nestled in it, and what she might be thinking. I tell myself little stories a la Malory, or imagine […]

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