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Earplugs Removed

Posted on Sunday, August 2nd, 2020 by Will Cox

I turned off the air-conditioner and opened the windows letting in the air and sounds from outside. The day grew warmer and the house grew hotter, until at nigh...

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The War of All Against All

Posted on Wednesday, July 29th, 2020 by Will Cox

Across the street from where No. 1 Daughter lives, two dogs sat in a closed car. They barked at her when she left for work. They barked at her when she came hom...

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Knowing One’s Place

Posted on Tuesday, July 28th, 2020 by Will Cox

My youngest (12) asked, out of the blue, why do some people want a monarchy when they can’t be the king? I’m not sure. Maybe we should ask the British. I ...

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The Sacred Forests of Ethiopia

Posted on Monday, July 27th, 2020 by Will Cox

Here is a sad and hopeful story of the church forests of Ethiopia. The land outside the church forest looks like desolation to me. So stark. Where’s the g...

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Bedeviled

Posted on Wednesday, July 22nd, 2020 by Will Cox

The first was that I was very busy.The second — I was different from you: whatever happened to you could not happen to me, not like that.…. “Magdalene — T...

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What First Principles?

Posted on Tuesday, July 21st, 2020 by Will Cox

Tonight’s film was Romero (1989). Earlier this year my eldest and I were talking about a paper due for her international politics class on the Middle East, the ...

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Lands Now or Formerly of

Posted on Sunday, July 12th, 2020 by Will Cox

Over time I have lived on the lands of Lenape, Mohican, Wappinger, Manahoac, Piscataway, Powhatan, Monacan, Osage, Shawnee, Miami, Adena, Hopewell, and the Chic...

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Together Alone

Posted on Saturday, July 11th, 2020 by Will Cox

I have been joining in the morning and evening prayers from the garden of Canterbury Cathedral these past several months. Because this is the Internet, and we a...

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Think Before You Speak

Posted on Wednesday, July 8th, 2020 by Will Cox

My mother admonished me to think before I speak, and now sometimes I do. Sometimes I even think before I write, and take a breath, which was good advice I was g...

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Should We Talk About the Government?

Posted on Tuesday, July 7th, 2020 by Will Cox

Every budget is a document of priorities filled with moral and ethical decisions. Every budget is the result of political wrangling over who and what matters. W...

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A Song of Grit

Posted on Monday, July 6th, 2020 by Will Cox

What are our guiding precepts? By which lamp do we light our way? Langston Hughes asked a simple question in 1951. What happens to a dream deferred? Langston Hu...

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Cutting Off Your Nose to Spite Your Face

Posted on Tuesday, June 16th, 2020 by Will Cox

Heather C. McGhee notes (as heard on the radio) that racism has a cost for everyone. Let me tell two stories from my time in local government. One involves an e...

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WWJD?

Posted on Thursday, June 11th, 2020 by Will Cox

The execution of Jesus Christ was political murder by the klepto class, done with the force of the state, because he demanded lovingkindness, justice, mercy, an...

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Our Elections Make No Sense to Me

Posted on Sunday, April 12th, 2020 by Will Cox

I really don’t understand electoral politics, especially the selection of candidates for office and how they are chosen. It’s not the procedure that I don’t und...

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Morning on the Porch in Spring

Posted on Sunday, April 5th, 2020 by Will Cox

WoodpeckerBright yellow forsythiaSparrow, chickadeeA drop from the gutterAnd this bug that alights on my book,just as I begin to readThe sun warm on my thighs

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The Known Unknown

Posted on Wednesday, March 25th, 2020 by Will Cox

‪This is the worst game of six degrees of separation ever. Number One Daughter had class with someone who tested positive for COVID-19‬ virus. She has yet to he...

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A Matter of Life and Death

Posted on Tuesday, March 24th, 2020 by Will Cox

Here’s a purely hypothetical question for you. Let’s suppose you have a certain number of hospital beds and a certain number of ventilators and a ce...

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The Plague

Posted on Thursday, March 19th, 2020 by Will Cox

Our public library has closed indefinitely, and though I will need to return the large stack of books 📚 I borrowed last month at some point, I do not think I wi...

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A Tale of Two Cats

Posted on Monday, March 16th, 2020 by Will Cox

Two cats live with me. One, Lily, is 15; she has been with us since she was weaned, adopted with her brother when my daughters were four and two. Her brother pa...

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What I Hope–and Fear

Posted on Saturday, March 14th, 2020 by Will Cox

I hope there will be a great coming together of society, as people from all walks of life realize that we are all in this together. We leave the world a better ...

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