The rains haven’t come yet, but the leaves have begun to turn—yellows mostly. It’s early autumn in California, and the winds have cleared and cleaned the air after months of…
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Meditations
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The next few months may well determine the foreseeable future of humanity. There is great urgency, yet most people, on the reasonable left and rationally right, want only a return…
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Randomness is part of nature, but where humans are concerned, I don’t believe in coincidences. I’ve been encountering a lot of Catholic people lately. Since I didn’t begin rising as…
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On the side of the house grows a sprawling vine, spilling over the fence from the neighbor’s unkempt yard. It has many delicate flowers of deep purple. They apparently need…
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It’s only been one day since the man who caused the needless deaths of over 100,000 Americans, and I’m sick of hearing the lying refrain: “We all want the president…
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I have a selfish reason for writing this column. The thought of another four years of the orange face with dead noises emanating from it fills me with existential dread.…
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“The sole remaining superpower, the indispensible nation, and the leader of the free world,” which had already grown smaller than little England under Brexit, has suddenly become, at the death…
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A breeze flowed into the interior of California from the Pacific this morning, brightening the day and even allowing a bit of blue sky for only the second time in…