Beyond the Pale
Meredith Lee and I were sitting on the back deck a few weeks ago, she was telling me a story and stopped to ask, What are you looking at?" I guess I'd left eye-contact or something. I answered, "Everything."
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Letter to Collier on a Late September Sunday (opens the original)
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Dear Winn: Finished the essay draft I mentioned, the one about the chancesan Ordinary Faith™️ could get boring. May not pass the smell test. That’s fine. I pinned the angel down long enough to get thoughts on paper. That’s a win. Keep thinking about Eliot’s line: Old men ought to be explorers…still and still moving. No doubt a bit vain, maybe a lot, but that’s what I want my children and mychildren’s children to remember of me: I stayed curious, kept repenting, moving.After a string of twenty-so
Tuesday’s Poem (opens the original)
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Dear Morgan, (opens the original)
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On Saturday, August 1st, at 3:02pm, you texted me a pic of this book cover - <img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="281.21008403361344" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!SRNw!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-
Saturday's Poem (opens the original)
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Saturday's Poem (opens the original)
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