Wednesday, August 11, 2021

Siberia’s wildfires are bigger than all the world’s other blazes combined. (Robyn Dixon, in the WaPo.)

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  Russia is currently fighting more than 170 forest fires in Siberia that have closed airports and roads, forced widespread evacuations, sen...
Sunday, August 8, 2021

A Prayer.

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  Christ Jesus, Savior of all flesh, my leaden soul deign to refresh. Weak and weary, yet proud and thick, my sin-bred burdens make me sick....
Friday, August 6, 2021

Sneaky Thieves Steal Hair From Foxes, Raccoons, Dogs, Even You. (Annie Roth for the NYT.)

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  Professor Torkildson has studied the wild life of Provo Utah for years. His conclusion: There isn't any. "It’s simple: Mammals ha...

Woman left dead mom wrapped in newspaper while she sapped her bank account. (Mark Lungariello for the New York Post.)

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  "An Arkansas woman left her mother’s dead body wrapped in newspaper for months while she slept in the same house and sapped her mom’s...
Thursday, August 5, 2021

Prose Poem: Democracy dies in darkness. It turns out, foxes steal newspapers in darkness, too. (John Kelly for the WaPo.)

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  TIm Torkildson, otherwise known as 'Foxy Grandpa.' "Every few years, I hear about foxes that are stealing newspapers. In 2009...
Tuesday, August 3, 2021

Touring Trinity, the Birthplace of Nuclear Dread. (Dennis Overbye, for the NYT.)

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 "A recent visit to the site of the first atomic bomb explosion offered desert vistas, (mildly) radioactive pebbles and troubling refle...

Photo Essay: A Letter to my Grand Daughter Ceci.

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Monday, August 2, 2021

Former Clown Peggy Williams Looks Back on Her Decade in the Ringling Bros. Circus. (Stacey Althen, for Sarasota Magazine.)

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  Tim Torkildson, AKA Dusty the Clown. Long ago and far away . . .  Long ago and far away clowns did banish all the grey. * Raucous faces, w...

Study paints stark picture of how some get mired in collections because they can’t pay medical bills. (Erin Blakemore in the WaPo.)

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  This patient suffers under the delusion he is a poet; doctors hold out no hope for a cure. I've been in debt to doctors all my life it...

Police shootings continue daily, despite a pandemic, protests and pushes for reform. (WaPo)

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  "Since 2015, police have fatally shot more than 6,400 people." I remember long ago our grade school textbooks pealed with praise...