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Short Throws (opens the original)
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A friend asked me recently if it made me sad that Sophia is getting older.I had said it almost in passing. We were talking about dogs, and I mentioned she was nine now, and that it made me a little sad. He asked why. The answer came while I was still talking, the way the true ones sometimes do.She is a reflection of me. We are about the same age, her in dog years and me in human ones. I watch her and see what she can’t do anymore, and I know who I’m really looking at.There was a time I could thr
Breaking the Spell (opens the original)
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I love the Mickey Mouse animated version of Goethe’s Sorcerer’s Apprentice, the one where a young apprentice gets tired of carrying buckets of water and decides to try out a spell he’s watched his master use a hundred times. He says the words. The broom stands up on its stick legs and starts hauling water like it was born to do it. And for a minute the kid is thrilled. Look what I can do.Then the water keeps coming. He never bothered to learn how to stop it, because why would he, the fetching wa
Random Thought Thursday (opens the original)
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Love is a Flavor (opens the original)
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Wine appreciation has developed an extraordinary vocabulary for describing what is in a glass. Much of it is grounded in chemistry. Grapes contain hundreds of compounds and precursors. Fermentation creates still more. Yeast, bacteria, oak, oxygen, time and temperature transform them again. What we experience as flavor is an enormously complicated interaction between chemistry, biology, agriculture and our own senses.Over the years, researchers including Ann Noble at UC Davis helped give us a lan
Random Thought Thursday (opens the original)
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