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Love Thy Neighbor
On the love and hatred of neighbor, blood feuds, the indignities of apartment living, and anger.
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Kingdom Theory
On the compulsive taking of pictures, unjustifiable optimism, and the dark side of paternal love.
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Do You See What I See?
On cynicism, the reason for the season, and Christmas miracles.
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Lilac Season
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Life Eats Life
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Do You See What I See?
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Coming and Becoming
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The $400 Question
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The Ordering of Things, Vol. 1
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Lilac Season
and other brevities.
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Gedankenexperiment
Galileo, Einsein, Benji: a rhetorical fugue.
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Life Eats Life
The perils of empathizing with food.
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Elephemera #2: March 2023
Springing forward.
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Natural Selection
A poem.
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The Couch
Exorcising the defiled totem.
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Cosmic Microwave Background
Parenting in the aftermath of the Big Bang.
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(a) a property requiring much care and expense and yielding little profit (b) an object no longer of value to its owner but of value to others (c) something of little or no value
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