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Two Love Stories
love story photo by Todd Here are two brief love stories from my new novel Magenta. Henry’s Story When I was a senior in high school at Fort Orford High and causing my God-fearing parents great...
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Just Us
The Magician (Lily Cai Chinese Dance Company) ©2016 David Jouris / Motion Pictures “In 1978, Proposition 13 passed with almost 65% of those who voted in favor and with the participation of nearly 70%...
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There We Were
La Entrada (Lily Cai Chinese Dance Company) ©2016 David Jouris / Motion Pictures “It takes a long time to become young.” Pablo Picasso When Marcia gave me the news of the terrible fire and deaths of...
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Reflections
Dancing In The Shadows painting by Nolan Winkler “As democracy is perfected, the office of the President represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious...
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Here’s To You
You You by Todd “We have not all had the good fortune to be ladies. We have not all been generals, or poets, or statesmen; but when the toast works down to the babies, we stand on common ground.” Mark...
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Earth Sorrow
Winter Buddha photo by Todd “As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To...
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Captain Fantastic
Vito & Todd photo by Marcia “We may divide thinkers into those who think for themselves, and those who think through others. The latter are the rule, and the former the exception.” Arthur...
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Carrying On
And the dog walked, walked… painting by Nolan Winkler “Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn’t music.” William Stafford We are feeling pampered and special because the power...
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Circus Maximus
Clowns drawing by Todd “I remember in the circus learning that the clown was the prince, the high prince. I always thought that the high prince was the lion or the magician, but the clown is the most...
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Facts
Now I’m Sailing painting by Nolan Winkler “Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.” Martin Luther King I recently watched several interviews with...
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Going Bananas
Going Bananas photo by Todd In Woody Allen’s movie Bananas, one of Woody’s earlier, funnier films, there is a scene in which the leader of a successful rebellion in a banana republic becomes the new...
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Pollination
Winter Mint photo by Todd “When the flower blossoms, the bee will come.” Srikumar Rao Well, maybe not. With bee populations in decline worldwide and the so-called civilized world in no hurry to...
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Ignorance
Strength painting by Nolan Winkler The earwigs are a plague on the garden. Jonathon—a thickset man with an unruly gray beard—wanders up and down the rows of decimated bean plants searching for...
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Little Men
Vito and Todd and Marcia photo by Clare Bokulich “For every complex problem, there is a simple solution. And it’s always wrong.” H. L. Mencken Marcia and I recently watched Little Men, the 2016 movie...
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Wrong Ending
Four Editions of Inside Moves photo by Todd “Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.” George Orwell A few weeks ago I had an inquiry about the movie remake...
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The Beggar
Buddha Statue photo by Todd a story from Buddha In A Teacup Each morning on her way from the subway to her office in the pyramid building, Cheryl passes hundreds of beggars. And each evening on her...
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Inside Moves Miracles
Inside Moves Pharos Edition I began writing the novel that would become Inside Moves in 1974, when the United States was on the verge of withdrawing from Vietnam. I was twenty-five and living in a...
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The News
(a story from Todd’s novel of stories Under the Table Books) I don’t have much, but there’s one thing I treat myself to every Wednesday, and that’s a newspaper, fresh from the rack. No one else has...
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Mutant Ideologies
Something Greater We Could Be painting by Nolan Winkler “Do not blame others for things that you have brought upon yourself.” Alexander McCall Smith In 1968, when I was nineteen, I read The Population...
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Huckleberries
Turn Left At the Moon painting by Nolan Winkler “For when you see that the universe cannot be distinguished from how you act upon it, there is neither fate nor free will, self nor other. There is...
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