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Antiquites
ISIS on Rampage
By: - Aug 25th, 2015The atrocities of ISIS continue. The innocent beheaded for preceived insults to Islam. Even antiquities offend in the name of the Prophet.
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Root Beer
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Troy
Hubris Undone
By: - Aug 24th, 2015Mighty Achilles was invulnerable. Guided by the gods the arrow of Paris, the seducer beloved by Aphrodite, crippled the warrior
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Turtles
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Judge and Jury
It Pays to Be Different
By: - Aug 24th, 2015The world is not flat he told a court of skeptics. Then sailed off to a new world.
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To the Brave Artist Richard Harrington,
Author of Harrington’s Geometries, Finite Infinities
By: - Aug 22nd, 2015The North Adams based poet Stephen Rifkin responds to an exhibition of the abstract geometric sculptures of Berkshire artist Richard Harrington.
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Soft Sticky Morning
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First Communion
Five and Five No Matter What
By: - Aug 18th, 2015No matter what I confessed the penance was always the same; five Our Fathers and five Hail Marys. Everything came with the usual five and five.
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Rob Moore
Second Effort
By: - Aug 18th, 2015Critics don't always get it right. Particularly young ones.
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My Bad
Professional Differences
By: - Aug 18th, 2015Comparing professions at a family gathering years ago.
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Saints
Relics and Miracles.
By: - Aug 17th, 2015When a kid in chapel at Mt. Alvernia many a time we kissed the relics. Little slivers of saints under glass. Cures for whatever and forgiveness of sin.
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Crushed
Transforming Judds into Chamberlains
By: - Aug 14th, 2015How rejected galvanized metal cubes by the artist Donald Judd were transformed into vintage sculptures by John Chamberlain.
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Siesta to Semester
End to Lazy Days of Summer
By: - Aug 13th, 2015Few jobs offer more vacation time than teaching. But the approach of Labor Day and back to school filled me with dread starting on the Fourth of July. By then summah was ovah.
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Fog
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Pizza
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Mondo Cane
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Bookends
Waiting for the Show
By: - Aug 11th, 2015In the lobby waiting for the show stuck between ambient conversation, laments of age and disease, proved to be more memorable than the play itself.
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Mr. B. B.
Ain't Nothin but a Hound Dog
By: - Aug 10th, 2015Sometimes animals have a way of adopting us. More than just a dog B.B. King was a worldly wise hipster and friend.
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Path Finder
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Seeing Is Believing
À la recherche du temps perdu
By: - Aug 05th, 2015How long does it take to look at a work of art and remember it, or not, forever?
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Fishing
No Luck with NOAA
By: - Aug 05th, 2015The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) regulates fishing. They say there's no cod out there. Tell that to lobstermen with their traps clogged.
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Laurel and Hardy
Lend Me Your Ears
By: - Aug 05th, 2015Creating is a team effort shaped by a critical process. Reaching an impasse. Hitting the wall. Tapped out. When you come to the fork in the road take it.
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Thoughts
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Peacemaker
Ballad for a Gunslinger
By: - Aug 04th, 2015He didn't like the killing particularly in the beginning.
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Hic Transit Dracones
Up the River for Kurtz
By: - Aug 04th, 2015As we explore and use our lives as art when do we reach the boundary? Having mapped the known where do we cross over to terra incognita? Or as inscribed on medieval maps the unknown ocean where hic transit dracones.
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