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Paradise Found
It’s not unusual for Norman Fischer to offer a literary aside mid-dharma talk. There’s nothing strange about him citing Milton’s Paradise Lost to the Mountain Rain Sangha on the May 3, 2025, “Dongshan Stories”…
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The Ferment: Creativity and Burnout
Two years after opening a file in FadeIn, I finally finished the first episode of The Ferment. This was a couple of weeks ago and I’ve been letting it sit before making some more…
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ICYMI – 2025 Poetry Out Loud
It’s April and that means National Poetry Month! While you wait impatiently for those buds to burst open, refresh your brain with some powerful wordplay recited by some talented high school students! WVIA’s broadcast…
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Recent TnR appearance
This conversation is a couple of weeks old now and will likely sound irrelevant already. Oh well. For the record, there is value in capturing a moment in time as much as there is…
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Never been to Choteau
In a gratitude message posted to Substack newly independent journalist Jim Acosta (later CNN) referenced Dan Rather’s unforgettable interview on David Lettermen after 9/11 I found a clip of Rather remembering that moment that…
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Accidental promotion
I was trying to figure out if I could get the $25 off an American Express gift card and into one of my accounts for future use. Am I careless or maybe I’m afraid…
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Revising Cressida with Google’s Notebook LM
After seeing the Scranton Shakespeare production of Troilus and Cressida in summer 2019, I began research to support a (feminist) revisionist (live theatre) story about Cressida / Bresis and women trafficked as slaves during…
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From the archives …
Dated February 2016 in photos … I believe this untitled photo piece is included in my first book of poems. -ag
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holiday poem 2024
I guess I forgot to title it. I’m just glad it came together in time! Happy Holy Days! ❄️ If I have your address you’ll get a card in the USPS mail. xoxo Ali…
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