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You Have the Right to Experience Silence
It is 2am and I am awake. This is because a few sites over, some 17 to 22 year old white males are whooping across the campground at a site a bit up the road from us where another group of 17 to 22 year old white males are whooping back. This is a frustrating …
At the Zoo
The Point Defiance Zoo sits on a hillside above Puget Sound. It’s almost like an amphitheater, when you stand at the top, there’s a stunning view towards Mount Rainier and across the water. The setting is grand, just grand, and if you go early on a Sunday morning like we did, there will be no …
Eisbär
Ich möchte ein Eisbär sein/I want to be a polar bear im kalten Polar/at the cold North Pole dann müßte ich nicht mehr schrei´n/Then I wouldn’t howl anymore alles wär so klar/everything would be all right. Eisbären müssen nie weinen./Polar bears must never cry. Eisbär is a 1981 Europop hit by the now defunct Swiss …
Waiting for the Apocalpyse in Paradise
“Do you mind my asking? Are you Christian?” “No, no, I’m Jewish.” “Messianic? Orthodox?” I smile and shake my head. “Ha, no, I’m a West Coast Jew. I grew up in California.” I’m not sure Norman knows what I mean by this. “I’m not practicing,” I say, by way of explanation. “Have you been to …