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On November 6 I asked my "Finding Waypoints" co-author to please "Send me some Waypoints." His response was this: 'We can either slip into the darkness or we can be the light.' I am writing to bear witness to this struggle. Stay lit, everyone.
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Star Light (opens the original)
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When I was an adjunct professor at the University of Maryland’s Philip Merrill College of Journalism, (don’t worry, everyone is okay) I was allowed to take classes for free. So I enrolled in “Mining the National Archives” then chose former Secretary of State Henry Kissingers’s recently declassified “memcons” as my research project. It was 2006. The papers hadn’t been digitized so on many afternoons before I taught my television production class, I would drive to the nearby National Archives at C
Dog days, waning (opens the original)
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Empty Nesting (opens the original)
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I’m standing at the kitchen sink (Why am I here so often?) where, over the sound of running water, I can hear Lillian breathing. It’s a bit labored, due, we think, to paralysis which has struck her larynx. She’s okay, for now, says the vet. But “now” never lasts, according to the gurus of presence. The next now is always here. They are ominous, these next nows. We know the worst now isn’t long off.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Q-x0!,f_
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