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Hair (opens the original)
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My mother’s weekly luxury was a Saturday visit to the beauty parlor. It was a rare hour of pampering to have her hair washed and styled in the bouffant she wore well into the 1970s, before returning home with bags of groceries. <img alt="" class="sizing-normal
Living World--Human Future (opens the original)
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Alexa…play 96 Tears by Question Mark and the Mysterians.Over this past winter, a friend from the past left an excited voicemail about his engaging conversations with Alexa Plus. An enthusiastic person who is a compulsive video creator with a history of romantic tendencies, he once followed dreams stirred by multi-level marketing schemes and love interests in other countries, it is no surprise that generative artificial intelligence has caught his attention. <a class="image-link image2 is-viewabl
Food Service (opens the original)
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To ‘wait tables’ is a curious term. My early working life was watching over and serving diners at tables in restaurants. These days, I wait only on the table in my home and there are usually just two plates. <img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="943"
Rabbit Got Me (opens the original)
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Imagine a time when things were pretty good…then, almost without a gradual progression, not so good. We are not always aware of the gradual progression. Even if there is awareness that the ground under my feet is shifting, what do I do to stop it? There is no way out—the spiral of existence keeps curving outward.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vGCE!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.co
Imagine a Life (opens the original)
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Consider the odyssey of imagination…The only war is the war against the imagination.Beat poet Diane di Prima’s famous 1985 free verse poem, RANT (complete poem) rants and raves most beautifully.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!aPK2!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb82aa341-272f-47c0-a1db-3f677d9f30a9_1500x1500.jpeg" target="
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