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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I am convinced that if God meant man to laugh, he would have made more Democrats.
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