Always.

May be an image of text that says 'I don't know who needs to hear this, but your choice to give up up the ast eleven or so months of your regular life, being careful and socially distancing, could very well be the reason somebody else is alive today -and it will *always* have been worth it.'

“The Executioner” From “Basel’s Dance of Death,” Hieronymus Hess, circa 1649

Lithographic plates. After Matthaeus Merian’s 17th century drawings.

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This totally just happened …

My friend Daniel Heintz:  “Boy, what changes will happen in a year.”

Me:  “Yep. Heintz’ sight is 20/20.”




Poster for “Starship Troopers” (1997)

Sony Pictures Releasing.

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NOLAN INDA HOUSE TARGARYEN.

Just a nifty stick I found by the Potomac River.

“The Ruined Temple of Kom Ombo, Egypt,” Ivan Fedorovich Choultsé

Oil on canvas.

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(I was on the right track, though.)

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“Frühling,” Heinrich Vogeler, 1897

Oil on canvas.

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Dead Letter Radio features “hens staring upward”

I’m honored today to find another poem of mine featured on the Dead Letter Radio podcast!  Host Taize Jones offered a wonderful reading of “hens staring upward” on Episode 15 of the weekly program.  (My piece is the last that Taize interprets — it starts at the 13:00 mark in the podcast.)

You can hear the entire episode right here.  Dead Letter Radio is also available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and over at Listen Notes.  It really is a terrific show; I highly recommend that you check it out.

Thanks again, Taize!



Poster for “Westworld” (1973)

MGM.

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