Tim Torkildson's Clown Alley
The Poet Laureate of the New York Times Newsroom
Sunday, August 23, 2020
Sunday Email to my Kids. August 23, 2020.
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Hello, my little chickadees! I was so grateful to be able to spend some time with Virginia, Cici, and Addie, this past week when they came...
Meet Gregory Zuckerman.
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A noted author, as well as a respected journalist for the Wall Street Journal, Mr. Zuckerman began life as a tree surgeon. It was only aft...
The Government School
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Deliver me from the workers of iniquity, and save me from bloody men. Psalm 59:2 We were working in the cook tent, my friend Maria and I, w...
Conqueror.
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Pray always, that you may come off conqueror - D&C 10:5 True champions the arm of flesh ne'er seek to endure trials; but pray in c...
Saturday, August 22, 2020
Quit you like men
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Watch ye, stand fast in the faith , quit you like men , be strong. 1 Corinthians 16:13 I know the Lord my strength prepares/when to...
Friday, August 21, 2020
The Greatest Man I Ever Knew.
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The greatest man I ever knew lived under a bridge. The bridge ran over the Mississippi River. The cars driving over it made a continuous a...
a rip in the fabric of interstellar dreams (NYT)
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Interstellar gossip suffers from an accident/The Arecibo network has been twisted and then bent/No more can we eavesdrop on an asteroid'...
Crazy Henry Fights Wildfires.
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Crazy Henry enjoys reading the newspapers. He never has gotten used to an online newspaper subscription. So when I went over to his place ...
Deliver me from darkness
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Deliver me from all my transgressions : make me not the reproach of the foolish Psalm 39:8 Deliver me from darkness, Lord: I wander aiml...
Thursday, August 20, 2020
Unbuttoned.
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“Scratch my back” I asked my wife. But when I turned to her she wasn’t there. I got up and went into the kids’ bedroom. “Hey, have you see...
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