Reminiscence

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A Good Story Begins with the Blues I will not go down under the ground 'Cause somebody tells me that death's comin' round. An' I will not carry myself down to die; When I go to my grave my head will be high. Let me die in my footsteps Before I go down, under and drown - Dylan (with apologies…
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"Nick's knack at packing flats and stacking skids is midst a whiz of ritzy kids, a cracking bats and hacking skids." – Alex Estes (bakery graffiti artist) On the Back of a Grocery Sack Fred got this crazy idea to build an outdoor bread oven from a sketch that Marcel had drawn on a shopping bag…
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(for Maurice, Ray and Stan) Prelude: This narrative came to me on the occasion of a root canal. The good news – it was only the tooth that died. A Western Ballad by Allen Ginsberg (excerpt) When I died, love, when I died I wearied in an endless maze that men have walked for centuries, as endless…
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As Fred and Marigold entered this exotic vegetarian restaurant, with a party of twenty congregants from a Friday Shabbat service, the chatter of the ambient crowd drowned out the simplest conversation among the group. Putting small talk aside for a few minutes, Temple-goers found their place along…
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" … see the whole thing is a world full of rucksack wanderers, I see a vision of a great rucksack revolution thousands or even millions of young Americans wandering around with rucksacks, going up to mountains to pray, making children laugh and old men glad, making young girls happy and old girls…
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"Tubing...tubing...tubing on the river." About the Paw Paw Tunnel The Paw Paw Tunnel is a 3,118-foot long canal tunnel on the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. Located near Paw Paw, West Virginia, it was built to bypass the bends – a sinuous stretch of the Potomac River. While the river makes a series…
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What should we be without the sexual myth, The human reverie or poem of death? Castratos of moon-mash – Life consists Of propositions about life. – Wallace Stevens, Men Made Out of Words Spooks Halloween night, 1977. Jay, the body-building manager of Main Street's Wildflour Pizza Parlour,…
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In the dog days of summer 1982, the distinguished American actor, Henry Fonda, died of heart failure at the Cedars of Lebanon Hospital in LA, CA. I know this hospital well: our family members were born, nursed and died at Cedars. Henry chose an OK place to leave the body behind. On my way to lunch…