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Tell me I’m wrong.

Don’t all photos of George Orwell invariably make him look like a very polite man who is really eager for your approval?

 

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Wear a mask. Wash your hands. Practice social distancing.

Wear a mask. Wash your hands. Practice social distancing.

Wear a mask. Wash your hands. Practice social distancing.

Wear a mask. Wash your hands. Practice social distancing.

Wear a mask. Wash your hands. Practice social distancing.

Wear a mask. Wash your hands. Practice social distancing.

Wear a mask. Wash your hands. Practice social distancing.

Wear a mask. Wash your hands. Practice social distancing.

Wear a mask. Wash your hands. Practice social distancing.

Wear a mask. Wash your hands. Practice social distancing.

 

 

“Landscape Blossoming Red Almond,” John William Godward, circa 1912

Oil on panel.

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A modest proposal for my sci-fi friends …

… if Donald Trump continues using secret police to pop up and snatch people off the streets, then please join me in referring to them as “the Morlocks.”

I’m kinda surprised we missed the opportunity the first time.

 

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Photo: Poster for “The Time Machine” (1960), Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

A Virginian Sylvan Cacophony!

Roanoke, VA, July 2020.

Listen to those insects. This video doesn’t do them justice. They are loud — LOUD.

 

Poster for “La Jetee” (1962)

Argos Films.

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“Freedom is not a state; it is an act.”

“But we must accept one central truth and responsibility as participants in a democracy: Freedom is not a state; it is an act. It is not some enchanted garden perched high on a distant plateau where we can finally sit down and rest. Freedom is the continuous action we all must take, and each generation must do its part to create an even more fair, more just society.”

― John Lewis, Across That Bridge: A Vision for Change and the Future of America

 

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Photo credit: By Daniellem4848 – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=55289439

Photo of a solar eclipse from “The Story of the Heavens,” Sir Robert Salwell, 1878

London, Cassell.

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Spillwords Press features “Delaware Sheets”

I’m grateful today to share here that Spillwords Press published my short poem, “Delaware Sheets.”  You can find it right here.

Thanks, as always, to Dagmara K. and the other editors at Spillwords Press!

 

 

“Les Mélodies de la Mer,” Herbert James, Draper, 1904

“The Melodies of the Sea.”

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