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Small Town, USA
I love my small town’s annual parade for the Bradbury feel. People sign up and march to say “we are this community”. I think everything one needs to know about this town can be learned by watching the parade. The veterans on a khaki truck with a rusted machine gun mounted on top. Primary school……
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TIL- sluagh
TIL (from Olivia Atwater who after 3.5 rapidly consumed books is now on my “pre-order whatever they write” list) that there is a type of fairies in Scotland that are, basically, ghosts or “unforgiven dead” and that their name, sluagh, comes from the same root as слуга and comes from “host” or “army”. Yesterday I……
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In Balance
Jorge Guillén, tr. from the Spanish by David Ferry I am so happy. It is wonderfulTo breathe the air and be in the morning light.On a day like this, if the soul weighs anythingIt is like the weight of a flower bending itselfDown to the earth in the weightless light and air. Everything calmly gives……
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