The Map is Mostly Water

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Audiobooks Are Books and They’re Also Practice
Speak low if you speak love. — Shakespeare, Much Ado about Nothing I’m very fond of audiobooks. There is something endearing, maybe even romantic, about…
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Let the world dawn on you (influences pt. 2)
I know the houses too. As I walk along they seem to run forward in the streets to look out at me from every window, and almost to say: "Good-morning…
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[subscribers only] Ask me Anything
And I thoroughly understand that the god is this way: To the wise, always a poser of riddles in divine speech, but to the foolish a teacher of l…
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Reading Well
Reading is alluring. It has a nameless quality beyond satisfying desires for information and pleasure. Despite more colorful and interactive media…
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Everything I know about gardening
I have been sharing pictures of flowers growing around my house, mostly little things like poppies and roses, or my fields, and several people have…
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Agency and Schooling (and gardening)
Dear friends, Over at Palladium I have written School is Not Enough. The beginning may be familiar to some readers, the post is an elaboration of my…
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Sympathies (influences pt. 1)
One of my goals in life is to become head waiter of a refined cafe (white apron, silver tray), with tables set in a quiet and shaded garden. The patrons…
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The Map is Mostly Water
The Map is Mostly Water
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