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Employed – Full Time
My job takes my time. No skill, no product –only hours of my life. Most of my life. The world is spinning. Grass is growing.Trees are reaching to the sky.Birds are singing. My kids are becoming adults.My body no longer looks like mine.Friends and family are dying. The sun rises and the sun sets. I…
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Report: The Humans World (rough draft)
I visited a world, and all of the world’s creatures were dying – and the creatures didn’t care. At least not enough to do much about it. The ruling class referred to themselves as humans, mens, womans, people, persons. The creatures below them were called animals – birds, dogs, lions, sharks, wombats, cows….
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Shifting Perspectives
I see the world with two eyes. When my right eye closes, my perspective shifts. It opens, and my original perspective returns. My left eye closes, my perspective shifts again, and I see the world in a third way. One step to the left or to the right and my world is turning. A step…
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Beggar and Son on the Streets
Get off the streets, Christ. Do you not have any idea how uncomfortable you make us feel, Christ? Get a job, Christ. Stop trying to suck us dry of our money, Christ, riding on the back of our hard labor. Be a better mom, Christ. Where’s the dad, Christ? Get off the streets, Christ. Get…
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Justin & Maxine – A Wedding
Justin, Max: Welcome to your wedding. The very first thing we should do is recognize how beautiful this moment is. Here we are, fresh from airplanes and taxis and shuttles, in a different country, a beautiful city, to practice and witness love. We practice the love we have for Justin and Max. Love that carried…
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My Grandmother – A Eulogy
In the winter of 2009, Grant Heslov’s The Men Who Stare at Goats opened in theaters nationwide. The movie starred Ewan McGregor, George Clooney, Kevin Spacey, and Jeff Bridges. It was met with mixed reviews. Variety called it a “superbly written loony-tunes satire” and Entertainment Weekly called it a film about “nothing but its own…