To eat sweet corn straight offthe cob, just shucked—no one ever told me I could do that, likeno one ever. Another daythe world seems too full of protocolsboiled and buttered

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Someone once said that we die twice–First, when we take our very last breath.The flame on our candle goes out as weTransition between life and death. But then comes our

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If you can keep your head when all about you    Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,   If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance

Continue readingSaturday Poem: If –by Rudyard Kipling

Live as if you were already dead.—Zen admonition 1. About the Dead Man in Peacetime, If and When If and when the war is over, the dead man’s days will

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Fire shimmied and reached upFrom the iron furnace and grabbedSawdust from the pitchforkBefore I could make it acrossThe floor or take a half stepBack, as the boiler room sungAbout what

Continue readingThursday Poem: Temples of Smoke

What you thought you lost along the wayhangs in the air like a prayer May you find your way homemay the doors swing open wide from the out and the

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by Paulo Coelho Without solitude, Love will not stay long by your side. Because Love needs to rest as well, so that it can journey through the heavens and reveal

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—Before the Coming of the White man I am the White Corn BoyI walk in sight of my home.I walk in plain sight of my home.I walk on the straight

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I am an angry manno longer youngmy dreams have been outin all the weather I used tomake up highway exits as I went alongand rattle my feverat strangers I am

Continue readingSunday Poem: Life Sentence

The Eiffel Tower erected itself in my head,we couldn’t find the lifts, climbed the stairs. Of course there were fireworks. We stared at each other, rare exhibits in the Louvre —you

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From the Curiosity Chronicle: Here’s a story about German Nobel Prize winning physicist Max Planck and his chauffeur that I often think about: After winning his Nobel Prize, Max Planck

Continue readingSahil Bloom on ‘2 Types of Knowledge’