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Almost Heaven

Posted on Saturday, November 26th, 2022 by Will Cox

Climbed the fire tower on Sounding Knob with some of my children this morning, and after overcoming the vertigo looked out over the oldest mountains in the worl...

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The Trouble with Populism

Posted on Thursday, November 10th, 2022 by Will Cox

“casting their ballots for the party that, despite its other failings, keeps entitlements inviolate, supports collective bargaining and has sought to ease the s...

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Faded Fluorescent Light, Dirty Tile, and an Enveloping Sound

Posted on Thursday, November 10th, 2022 by Will Cox

One humid summer night, passing through Maryland on a long road trip, I stopped for gas and a pack of smokes. In those days gas stations weren’t often open at a...

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Brothers

Posted on Wednesday, August 10th, 2022 by Will Cox

I once was able to escape entirely into books, and could leave the world behind until one was done, no matter the troubles troubling my heart. My brother, a mer...

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Serving Mammon

Posted on Thursday, May 26th, 2022 by Will Cox

On Marketplace last night, Kai Ryssdal stated the unspoken obvious: “Guns are a business. A big business multi-billion dollar business in this country.” I’m rem...

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Evidence

Posted on Saturday, May 21st, 2022 by Will Cox

This here book I’m reading is older than I am, but just by a hair. It was checked out four times before I was born; the last just in time. It remained popular t...

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Lost in ?

Posted on Friday, May 20th, 2022 by Will Cox

It was 18:30 just a few minutes ago and the sun had no thought yet of setting. Now it’s black out, and my computer woke up to tell me it is going to sleep. “Whe...

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A Visitor

Posted on Friday, May 20th, 2022 by Will Cox

Luna, the smallest and youngest of our cats, has in her short time here cornered two snakes behind a door in the basement. And somehow she climbs the concrete w...

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Summa cum laude

Posted on Friday, May 20th, 2022 by Will Cox

Number One Daughter graduates from SUNY New Paltz tomorrow. What next for her? Number Two Daughter has returned home from for the Summer and is between plans. I...

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Tonight

Posted on Tuesday, May 17th, 2022 by Will Cox

Strong breeze tonightWarm breeze tonightLow breeze tonight The clouds above, unmovedThe stars above, unmovedThe dipper above, unmoved This breeze, low, aroundth...

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An End, But Not The End

Posted on Sunday, May 15th, 2022 by Will Cox

Toward the end of March 2020, searching the Internet for some solace

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So Tonight I Might Sleep

Posted on Friday, May 13th, 2022 by Will Cox

Thursday afternoon the frogs who cling to the trees nearby gave voice to their mating song. A few daring fellows first, by evening constant singing rose from th...

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Taste and See

Posted on Friday, May 13th, 2022 by Will Cox

The virtual world cannot compare. It engages but one of our senses, and even that just barely. How sad, how deficient must those be who think such a pale imitat...

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No One is Mowing Today

Posted on Thursday, May 12th, 2022 by Will Cox

No one is mowing today. The dawn chorus sang its morning song for hours, until the hint of summer rose too high. Then the mourning dove announced it must be noo...

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How to Annoy, Annually, the Homeowners Association

Posted on Wednesday, May 11th, 2022 by Will Cox

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A May Day

Posted on Tuesday, May 10th, 2022 by Will Cox

A luxury of working from home is the occasional opportunity to sit outside well away from the darkened lair of the computing beast. There is some small guilt in...

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The Outliers

Posted on Sunday, August 15th, 2021 by Will Cox

The population bump has reached the right-hand end of the curve: “The aging of baby boomers, those born between 1946 and 1964, who were ages 57 to 75 in 2...

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Making Mountains out of Motu Proprio Traditionis Custodes

Posted on Saturday, July 17th, 2021 by Will Cox

Pope Francis yesterday published, motu proprio, Traditionis custodes, revising certain regulations regarding the observance of what is commonly called the Tradi...

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Posted on Wednesday, April 7th, 2021 by Will Cox

Learning matters for its own sake, because human beings are essentially knowers, or lovers, or both. Zena Hitz, Lost in Thought (2020), p. 112

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Someone is Wrong on Television

Posted on Friday, April 2nd, 2021 by Will Cox

I’ve been avoiding Twitter and its ilk, but dear Lord the people in mass media are even worse talking to themselves on the television. Of course, one of them is...

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