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Barbeque Lentils

Nov 4, 2011

Cooked lentils. They aren’t smooth like French Silk Pie or succulent like the tender chicken picatta the Engineer was famous for making me in his teenage years. Lentils are savory. Rich. Complete with texture and robust flavor. And now sweet. …

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Remember

Nov 4, 2011

GO The room was always dark, save for the flickering TV screen. I laid stretched out on the couch. Pretending to be barely able to move. Hoping that when my mom arrived from a visit to the pharmacy that she…

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Thanks 3

Nov 3, 2011

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder. Gilbert Keith Chesterton Rain today. But rain that did not depress . . . or aggravate my easily disturbed homeostasis. It…

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Thanks . . .

Nov 2, 2011

This marks the third year. The third year that I have known Conny and that she has offered thanks. In November. For the month of November. She really is thankful during the other 11 months. It’s just that she is…

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The Tehran Initiative: An Interview and Review

Nov 2, 2011

The book arrived in our mailbox. Like any other day, I had to sneak out the front door and hope that I had been quiet enough to allow me access to the mailbox without its seven year old guard alerted…

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