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Bill The Liberal

It was approaching twilight as Cherece Guiles sat at the bus stop waiting for the number fifty-five to take her from what always felt like the middle of nowhere to her apartment, not that far away, but...

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American Buddhism Now and Zen

Back in the 1970s when I was a young woman, one of the most-read books of that era was Robert Pirsig's best-selling novel Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. The book chronicles the cross country...

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Music Reflections

Give me some music; music, moody food Of us that trade in love--Shakespeare:Anthony and Cleopatra It seems whether a love song or not there is a lot of truth in the idea posed that music is a venting...

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Crazy for Coffee: Coffee Cultur-istas and Baristas

When I attended college twelve years ago, I wrote an essay, America’s Coffeehouse Culture, for an American Studies classes. I wrote that essay in the 90s when a coffeehouse culture actually existed. ...

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The Dead Rose (After Reading Allen Ginsberg’s “On Reading William Blake’s ‘The Sick Rose’”)

Doom deserves the shriveled bud, Blossom Gathered, enshrouded, spoiled, destroyed at last, by his dark secret love ALLEN GINSBERG Rare...

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