Category: About
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Vince Lombardi Truckstop
Sitting here now, on a Sunday morning in February, the last day of the 2022 Winter Olympics, I’m still trying to tell the story of how I came to be at the Cultural Education Center, the building that houses the New York State Library, the New York State Museum, and the New York State Archives,…
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First Draft
November 23, 2014, 2:44 a.m. It’s been a long time since I’ve written. Just woke from a dream in which a woman is talking about writing with a fountain pen and how it is perfect for those times when you know what you want to write, and it is relatively short. Then I woke up,…
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A Main Theme
It’s only when we try to twist ourselves into unnatural (for us) shapes in order to conform to some perceived expectation that we go bad. Or crazy. It matters not what others think of you, because they will not be there when you die. They may be beside you, but no one but you can…
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Thought
I hope that the raggedness can be overlooked as one would overlook dirt on a child or wrinkles on a beloved grandmother. It is life I want to see here, to communicate. It is messy and beautiful.
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Because
You can start anywhere, and there will still be stuff before that, just as pertinent to the story you want to tell. But you have to start somewhere, so a good recipe. I’m supposed to have a game plan, a clear picture of where this is going, but honestly, the idea started in 2004, and…