Category: Response
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Neither Here Nor There
The scream of the tram is a flock of whistles outside my window. I am halfway across the room before I see Berlin. I walk past a car with its sliding door open. A child inside cries and it pulls me off the sidewalk. The adults around the car are the child’s caretakers. No one Read more
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Life on the Internet: Thoughts on Social Media & AI
Tl;dr: I don’t use either, and that’s on purpose. In 2011, I was working for Pensacola Opera in Florida. I was staying in a house and driving a car owned by opera patrons who’d taken a four-month cruise around the world, fulfilling a lifelong dream and helping out a few young artists in the process. Read more
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Sheep in Wolf’s Clothing
FC Union My favorite place in Berlin is the wooded walk to the stadium half an hour before a game begins, the moment the roar of the crowd first reaches me, the trees themselves resounding. Some unnameable thrill swells up in me; I float, elated, on the loudening roar, until slowly the stadium comes into Read more
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What’s Called For
Be here now.Be here with your pounding heart.Be here with your heavy eyes.Be here with your empty hands.Be here with your holey pockets.Be here with your racing mind. Be here with others—the sky, the neighbor,the love that holds us all,the parched and blooming earth. Be here with your gifts when they’re called for.Be here with Read more