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  • Have Yourself A Drony Little Christmas

    At long last, we affect the Christmas mosey. I mention it only because I feel like I’m supposed to, but the bodements of early November this year quite plainly ran out of wind far prior to their customary denouement. It was at the onset of these Yuletide doldrums when, what to our wondering eyes should…

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  • It Got Late Early This Year

    I spent an afternoon last weekend enjoying myself in Union Square, taking quick turn around the Strand before I ended up browsing the Manifestation section of the Namaste Bookshop. (14th Street and 5th Avenue. It’s easy to find. There’s a life-sized Buddha sitting outside on the sidewalk.) While the incense felt like quicksand for the…

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  • Summer of 2023 in the rear view

    A farewell to a summer of loss, of disappointments and another move, but one that concludes with great potential for change and no small amount of relief – punctuated by the Almost Jazz & Art Festival at Bearsville.

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  • Homeless

    When you use the term “homeless,” it conjures images of leathery street people asking for money, “washing” your car windows in the hope that you’ll tip them, and the various temporary homesteads you see in doorways or on subway grates. I always wonder how anyone who sets up one of those homesteads can ever not…

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