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The Tibetan Book of the Dead was dug out of the ground of the Gampo hills in central Tibet in the 14thcentury. As to why it was buried we have two stories. For the factually inclined, the book was buried to protect it from the marauding Mongol hoards who, like the Vikings visiting medieval England, […]
February 1, 2012
It was the dead of February and I was fourteen and my dad was gone on business and I was the man about the farm. I had to feed the horses twice a day. In the evening I went out in the winter dark to go to the barn to get the feed and low […]
December 20, 2011
The party got started when old Sobiak came home early and had us stop building his railing because it was friday and made us have beers and whiskey on the deck until Dean fell off and sprained his ankle because there wasn’t a railing. So then Dean and me went to town and got in a […]
December 5, 2011
This week you will be a voice crying in the wilderness. By wilderness I mean the urban wilderness, and by crying I mean protesting. You are one of the last keepers of the law and that means you care a great deal about justice. Why must 1% of the populace have the majority of the […]
November 16, 2011
This is an essay I found perishing in my files that I cut and pasted years ago from a news magazine. Do you remember the russian submarine Kursk that sunk all hands aboard in the arctic sea in 2000? That’s the topical prompt that prompted this. “I Am Writing Blindly” Roger Rosenblatt Besides the newsworthy revelation […]
November 11, 2011
In a jail at Nighur, the governor showed him a cell whose floor, walls and vaulted ceiling were covered by a drawing (in barbaric colors that time, before obliterating, had refined) of an infinite tiger. It was a tiger composed of many tigers, and contained seas and Himalayas and armies that resembled other tigers. The […]
November 10, 2011
After talking with her about books, I found my self searching my own books, looking for the one I missed, the one that she obviously had read, the book that had all the answers. I looked frantically, because either I had not read the book, or I was just that dull.
April 14, 2013
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