Dishonorable and Sad

The recent scandal about college admissions was hardly the canary in the coal mine that we needed to warn us that the US is not a meritocracy. You’d have to be blinkered and blindfolded and white to believe that, but now it’s pretty obvious that the oligarchs are done pretending.

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Fall Colors 2019 – 8

A bright morning. Something died; the vultures are wheeling over the back of the tree-line and they are upsetting the nest of crows that live back there. There is “caw”ing going on.

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Fall Colors in a Bottle

I’m so depressed by politics that I find myself energized creatively. It’s deflection. If I can make something beautiful or tasty, I won’t think so much about how the world has become a playground for the worst sort of people.

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