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Your Map of What’s Inside You Is Never the Territory
[Image: “Master Disconnect,” by John E. Simpson. (Photo shared here under a Creative Commons License; for more information, see this page at RAMH.)] From whiskey river’s commonplace book: A Suite of...
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The Writer Speaks to the Reader
[Image: excerpt from a letter my Dad sent home to his family in the early 1940s, from wherever he was doing his basic training. (His hair had always been wiry, and before his Army experience he’d let...
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Life Should Be More Than the Body’s Weight
[Image: “Rushing (New Jersey, September 2022)” by John E. Simpson.] From whiskey river (part I): The Next TimeINobody sees it happening, but the architecture of our timeIs becoming the architecture of...
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The Inevitability of the Flow
[Image: “Echo Reservoir Panorama,” by John E. Simpson. At this point of our trip, in mid-July, we were headed east into Wyoming from Salt Lake City. Having been all through California and across...
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Seeing the Opaque and Pronouncing It Transparent
[Image: “Autumn Reflections on Lake Taneycomo,” by Moose Winans. (Stumbled upon it on Flickr, and use it here under a Creative Commons license — thank you!) The photographer explains, sorta: “I was...
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Read the Hints, Come at Last
[Image: “Book Art,” by Blondinrikard Fröberg. Found on Flickr, naturally, and used here under a Creative Commons license (thank you!). The photo’s caption at Flickr says, only, “The window of the...
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Being Both Here and Beyond
[Image: ‘Circe,’ by user TheoJunior on Flickr; used here under a Creative Commons license (thank you!). About its subject, he caption supplied by the artist says only (and wryly), “Aeaean weaver,...
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Choosing the Self You Want to Know
[Image: “You Choose (autoretrato),” by Alberto Varela. (Found on Flickr; used here under a Creative Commons license — thank you!) The photographer says only that this self-portrait (Spanish: auto...
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The Observer in the Observed
[Image: “Message From the Unseen World,” by Roger Marks; found on Flickr and used here under a Creative Commons license (thank you!). Click photo to enlarge. The photographer explains: “…this...
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Even in the Heart of the Heart of Darkest Darkness
[Image: “Hide & Seek,” a photo by Marian Hilditch on Flickr. (Used here under a Creative Commons license.) The only information provided by the photographer: “I don’t know who those four looking...
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Layers of Often, of Seldom, of Never
[Image: “127/365,” by Tom Wachtel. (Found on Flickr, used here under a Creative Commons license.) The caption provided by the photographer: “Yellow often shines in sparkling company. Red will almost...
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Le Mot Exact
[Image: Cartoon by James Thurber, originally published in The New Yorker December 3, 1932. Caption there: “Touché!” One story about this drawing — I have no idea how accurate — says that the...
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Please Continue. But Count on Interruptions.
[Video: “Stay Go,” by Robert Cray, from his album Shame and A Sin.] From whiskey river: You can plan all you want to. You can lie in your morning bed and fill whole notebooks with schemes and...
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Winter’s First Week
A bit of a changeup from the usual Friday routine here. Let’s start with a couple of things not from whiskey river (because, well, why not)… ...a song for winter PlayStop Popout X …and: Christmas...
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A Later Place
[Image: “The 1958 Edsel: Lousy Car but a Great Planter,” by Bill Barber (username “wdwbarber”) on Flickr. (Click to enlarge.) Used under a Creative Commons License.] From whiskey river: None of us can...
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Distant Cool Dark
[Video: "Composition Complete Track - Bossa 1," by Volkmar Studtrucker. See the note at the foot of this post for details.] From whiskey river: Impermanence is not just of philosophical interest. It’s...
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Missing the Point (or Nearly So)
[Image: "irony at BBworld," by user bionicteaching (Tom Woodward) at Flickr.com. Used under a Creative Commons license.] From whiskey river: West Wind (excerpt) You are young. So you know everything....
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Mark This Moment
[Image: partial screen capture of a page at Google Books. The worker scanning the pages of The Coquette has allowed his or her gloved finger to be recorded for posterity.] From whiskey river...
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A Mansion Like No Other
[Image: artist's rendering of "Sea-Ty," a bowl-shaped floating-but-underwater city, open to the sky. The page where I found this image says that it "resembles a traditional hillside town with a...
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Cold. So Cold.
[Image: "ice-creeksicles," by Jeremy Hiebert. For more information, see the note at the foot of this post.] From whiskey river: Winter Afternoon by the Lake Black trunks, black branches, and white...
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