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Monthly Archives: April 2010

Leaves

Saturday, April 10, 2010

I rake to enliven my lawn. I have a sense that raking helps the growth of the grass, that I’m opening things up for the surviving blades– providing space to breathe and flourish. It’s logical and might be factual, but I got the idea from my friend Brian when he and I were eighteen. He [...]

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Metaphor

Wednesday, April 7, 2010

I know I’m playing on someone else’s field, by someone else’s rules. I expect it to be difficult to excel, and I expect to struggle, but given a chance, I can win in foreign territory because I am better, more skilled, than the ones who made the rules. It approaches insurmountable, though, when the people [...]

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I Believe in God

Wednesday, April 7, 2010

I feel calm and happy today, and for me to feel this way, on a day Chicago is soaked and draped in gloom, must mean my grandmother has her arms around me.

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