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“Fake Empire” – The National Stay out super late tonight picking apples, making pies put a little...

Aug 31st

via travelhighlights & youonlylivetwice An Open Secret...

Aug 31st

1.) Leaned back in a corner coffee shop near a dormant...

Aug 31st

So this is happening at the State Fair as we speak. We...

Aug 30th

What’s that? You want to take me camping? Well ok, if...

Aug 28th

Cotopaxi Volcano, Ecuador “Make no little plans. They have...

Aug 28th

Dear Migraine,

I will give almost anything if you will stop circling my eyes like a vulture and decide to retreat...

Aug 27th

“There is only one thing which interests me vitally now, and...”
— Henry Miller (Manic,...

Aug 27th

Self Portrait of the Artist and Her Cupcake Box.

Aug 27th

Nil nisi bonum de mortuis dicere.

mills: Error led to death. You stand, wet and cold, in the dark under the endless night sky,...

Aug 26th

Oh Hey - Guess What?

Turns out that if you attempt to iron your pants while wearing them, you will end up with a four...

Aug 26th

Letter to the Astronaut

When the early stars come out into all that blue it’s like a prayer, one I memorized without...

Aug 26th

West with the Night

travelhighlights: From Beryl Markham’s autobiography: You can live a lifetime and at the end of...

Aug 26th

Dear meaghan,

I just drove by a Young Beardo on the street and instantly thought of you. You’ve trained us...

Aug 26th

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kindacarsick: George Michael - Faith This would also be on it.

Aug 25th

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via three50eight: The Cure - Close to Me [Closer Mix] If I made you all a mix tape today, this...

Aug 25th

beyond the curtain.

Of course these nights are facts of life. You realize. They are not piteous. That’s not the...

Aug 25th

Wild restlessness mutinies the evening…

Aug 25th

DECREE:  Henceforth, I’m leaving major life decisions...

Aug 24th

Annie Leibovitz faces financial ruin

Aug 24th

“Well, again, hang in there. It’s a stupid thing to say...”
— My friend Bakes reminds me how...

Aug 24th

langer: I think I was probably thirteen or fourteen when I had to read The Catcher in the Rye and...

Aug 24th

“Let’s also say that change is neither good nor bad. It...”
— Turns out Don Draper is one...

Aug 24th

So I’ve always been a solid believer in the value of...

Aug 24th

today i,

meaghano: And so I looked at my feet in yoga and they were as ridiculous as always so I called my...

Aug 23rd

So you know any set of Saturday plans that begins with Thai...

Aug 22nd

Also, the boot is not so unfashionable...

So I had the good fortune of meeting the delightful Nora Leah for lunch today while she is visiting...

Aug 21st

Don't you be the judge.

Today I started an Office Candy Drawer.  Currently eating and peer pressuring my colleagues to eat:...

Aug 21st

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Ben Folds - The Best Imitation of Myself Ok, so I spent an unjustifiable amount of time trying to...

Aug 21st

Ben Folds concert, Minneapolis,...

Done and done. See you at Orchestra Hall, Mr. Folds. PS - Also, Ben Folds apparently has a...

Aug 21st

So long as there are these things to...

“Bonsoir” - And the almost silent sound it makes dropping out of my mouth in a lanky...

Aug 21st

“The poems to come are for you and for me and are not for...”
— Thanks to this one, I am now...

Aug 20th

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Nina Simone - Here Comes the Sun Holy hell, I forgot how much I adore this song until good...

Aug 20th

Taken in a tiny Muslim village near the border of Vietnam...

Aug 20th

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East of Eden - Mason Jennings So it was deep December 2005 and a good friend put this song on a...

Aug 19th

GPOYourThoughtProcessW - Walker Art Gallery, Minneapolis. ...

Aug 19th

So it seems unfortunate

To receive such kind words from Meaghan (who is the one girl I would marry if only to force her to...

Aug 18th

Entire poem

Aug 17th

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So probably my very favorite place in Minneapolis is a pedestrian bridge spanning Hennepin Avenue....

Aug 17th

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(via onemoretimewithfeeling, natface, mykicks): (500) Days of Summer Dance Sequence One day my...

Aug 15th

Baños, Ecuador My camera is rapaciously hungry for a...

Aug 15th

“The important thing is not to stop questioning....

Aug 15th

Aug 15th

Topher Grace is turning St. Elmo's Fire into...

Aug 15th

via r00ts: a time to get: Fibers To Fibers, Dust To Dust ...

Aug 14th

Pack-up Baby, We're Heading South

shanai-matteson: Colin and I deserve to win this contest, even though there are no Polar Bears in...

Aug 13th

Thailand’s “Banana Pancake Trail” and 5...

Aug 13th

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Bjork - “It’s Oh So Quiet” Maybe deciding whether to do the easy pleasurable...

Aug 13th

GPOYW So by the way, Em’s wedding went ok – thanks for your...

Aug 12th

“The furious love of God knows no shadow of alteration or...”
— Brendan Manning There are...

Aug 12th

I am so in need of candy right now

That I literally just ate a three-month-old, solitary gummy worm I found in the bottom of a filing...

Aug 11th

“The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk...”
— Thich Nhat Hanh This morning,...

Aug 11th

Pray Your Gods

Working under the premise that any worthy sabbatical includes both catharsis and hard reflection,...

Aug 11th

FALLING SATTELITES:  RUSSIA. Altai Territory. 2000: ...

Aug 10th

Tom: “I just need some consistency. To know...

Aug 10th

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…This guy took a photo of himself (and his hair growth) every day as he traveled across...

Aug 9th

So I was a tomboy

Old Kodak snapshots with rounded corners would show you the proof of a dusty summer in northern...

Aug 7th

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“The Emperor’s New Clothes” - Sinead O’Connor This is not the saddest song...

Aug 6th

Little Debbies are my Borneo

Nearly put a stack of oatmeal cream pies and zebra cakes in my cart for you before I caught myself...

Aug 6th

Morocco, 2006 “Because we do not know when we will die,...

Aug 5th

Incidentally,

I really love you guys.

Aug 5th

Option Two.

Aug 5th

Ok, so can you help me with something vain and foolish and...

Aug 5th

“Griefs, at the moment when they change into ideas, lose some...”
— Marcel Proust by way of Mills

Aug 4th

Just finished leading a meeting with our largest funder and...

Aug 4th

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“My Heart” - Neil Young. Did you listen last time I played you this song? It’s the most...

Aug 4th

The halcyon days revisited

Work BBQ down, now on my way to meet up with old political friends at Fern’s - the site of...

Aug 3rd

Why I have the greatest job on earth, part 42: The very...

Aug 3rd

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So it’d be pretty hard to put Liz Phair on and not tap that foot while you’re getting...

Aug 3rd

Grace Drifts In. It was a day of revelations. A day that...

Aug 3rd

Aug 2nd

I have been at worse disinterested and at best conflicted...

Aug 2nd

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Shouldn’t it be easier to work in a coffee shop? Isn’t that why we come? I mean other...

Aug 1st

“You do all kinds of man things, Auntie Erica.”
— Out of the mouth of my six...

Aug 1st

You don't have a microwave yet

So you boil a gallon of water on the stove for your cup of tea, too distracted to consider...

Aug 1st