Keeping Time
1 The alarm goes off at 4. I will myself to my feet, not for a grand mission, but to catch a flight. In the predawn darkness, driving the 101 to the 405, I recite Clifton, Keats, & Limón to …
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1 The alarm goes off at 4. I will myself to my feet, not for a grand mission, but to catch a flight. In the predawn darkness, driving the 101 to the 405, I recite Clifton, Keats, & Limón to …
The oak predates our house. How old it was when it toppled, I cannot tell: a tree stands for ages, sees war unfold, endures tribulations, then in one fell goes still. I hadn’t time to count its rings: saws labored …
In Guangdon Province a young father rises early for work at Doubleeagle Industry Limited, where he operates the plastic-injection molding machine. It is rote, if loud and dangerous work, and he passes the time thinking of his wife and …
I was seventeen when I read Alan Watts’ The Way of Zen a couple pages at a time, putting down the book to observe sunset drape itself over my mind, falling asleep thinking of not thinking, hearing a …
When the Inflation Reduction Act ("IRA") passed, it was like Christmas morning for those of us concerned about the climate crisis: we spent the coming weeks scouring the bill, finding new "gifts" like $27 billion …
Too much talk of revolution makes me hungry, and there is little in the fridge that makes one believe in a better world: strawberries growing mold too soon, asparagus I'm unlikely to prepare, all of it bound either for the compost or …
For those not familiar, the OpenAI saga goes like this. In 2015, a number of Silicon Valley luminaries who were worried that Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) could become a threat to humanity, decided to start …
Leaves gather like un- sold goods. Need help, asks the rake. Just browsing, I say.
Both the atheist and the believer have it wrong. We are not mere bodies, nor do we have souls. Heaven would be a room strewn with books and nary an errand to distract from reading; what more could I …
It's easy to look out at the world and despair, to ask what point there is in donating to nonprofits, voting, protesting, calling your elected officials, writing Op-Eds. There is no shortage of anecdotes and …