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PAUL CHRISTENSEN
ON GREATNESS
Back in December of last year, NPR's Scott Simon interviewed the veteran pop singer Neil Diamond about his new Christmas album and a tour...
WINTER DAYS
Landscape is sometimes even better than biography for giving insights into a person or group. Any casual ride through the dense woods of...
FREEDOM NOW
You wonder sometimes what the 21st century is living on, if not the soma Aldous Huxley invents as food in the novel Brave New World, with...
THE WINTER SOLSTICE
The Winter Solstice came and went without much notice. It used to be a transformative event when pagan cultures ruled Europe. It was the...
TRUMP'S APOCALYPSE
Trump's transition team is putting together a list of nominees for the cabinet that sounds like a cast of characters for a surrealist...
ELECTION NIGHT
Big changes come with such profound simplicity, you don't realize they are happening until there is that eerie calm afterward. On...
HEALING HANDS
I've been dealing with a lot of doctors lately, urologists, GPs, sonogram technicians, and I've noticed that each of them, regardless of...
THE TIBETAN BOOK OF VERMONT
Up here in Vermont, we're sort of tucked away from the rest of the nation's storms and upheavals. We read about the cops killing unarmed...
THE DOG DAYS
It's funny how at the end of summer, around the latter part of August and the first weeks of September, every day is like Sunday. There's...
A RAINY DAY IN PARIS
A certain memory haunts me from time to time that has to do with my father and me in Paris, back in 1955. I was twelve years old. I was...
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