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Blessings.

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by David Bolton.

weeding can be good for the soul.
clean sheets put the body to sleep.
a hug with love cleanses the mind.
kindness is a building block to wisdom.
art makes for an interesting life.
humility leads to clarity.
poetry can touch the soul.
music takes one to heaven.
grandchildren keep one young.
true wealth is a healthy body and soul.
how blessed to live in a democracy,
not a theocracy.

what to do if you are in distress.

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by Chris Farago. lie flat. taste the earth, or tequila, or something with a connection to the future.  the world is a magic eye puzzle and you have no focus.  focus. all of your eyes are magical, so you can see anything.  look at your old smoky mezcal self and carry on.  pick up a […]

The Last Night There.

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by Richard LeDue. Beer kept cold in the kitchen sink with ice because the fridge was too important to leave behind, my wife and I slept on an air mattress in the living room, while the rest of the house was empty as a waiting grave, and the last crumbs we swept up meant more […]

How to Lose.

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by Joanie Terrizzi. You can argue (wrestle) (wail) (fight) (rail) against reality. And continue to flail in waters made for drowning. Or you can fill your lungs with breath find your floating back and stare breathless at the starry sky no matter how the waters churn. Reality wins every time. You can soften your heart […]

Wildfire!

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by Diana Morley.   Fiery ash squalls around my car, whuffling grass, sizzling waxed paper cups on the road. Yellow-flamed paper curls to black clumps, rises up over the hood. I’m stuck in a long line on Highway 99, windows closed tight against sooty whirlwinds. But as leaves and ashes whip about, smoke slips in. […]

Memory of a Hero.

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by Tom Ball. It was the year 2099 and I was suffering from a case of amnesia. I couldn’t remember anything that happened in my 30’s, I blamed it on a fall that I seem to have had. But then one day when I was 44, in 2099, I found myself in love with a […]

Vita (from “My Life with Dogs”).

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by Tod Davies. My brother Bill was a college hippie at Chico State. He lived in Whiskey Flats, five miles out of Paradise. Years later, that same town was the one that famously burned to the ground, fast and furiously, a sign of climate change here and to come. By then the years had changed […]

The Female Touch in Iranian Filmmaking.

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by Zhinia Noorian and Brian Griffith. For some reason, Iran seems to have an unusually large number of great female filmmakers. In recent years there were over 50 women making films in Iran. Shirin Neshat, who is best known for her Silver Lion award-winning movie Women Without Men (2009), tried to explain: Perhaps those who […]

Bottom of the Heap.

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by David Griffith. The working class has always been considered the bottom of the social heap. While working as a carpet-layer in Houston, I used to live with several other people in the back of a mechanic garage on the west side. We used to play guitars at night, and there was always lots of […]

Memories of Atlantis.

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by Bruce E.R. Thompson. There was once a time—long ago—and a place. Food was plentiful, work was easy, and society was governed with wisdom, justice, and love. There was peace and universal happiness. We still remember that time and place—at least traces of the memory still haunt our dreams. Books are occasionally written about it. […]