Personal posts
Posts on architecture, obsessions, photography, poems, visits to art exhibits, essays, family, and or things about me organized under art, home, and work.
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Sports and Transcendence
I spent a large part of my Sunday watching this over and over, crying: http://m.mlb.com/video/v36599553/balnyy-jeter-gets-walkoff-hit-in-final-home-game. Not sure what that says about me. The announcer at the beginning is the voice of the Yankees for 50 years who retired in 2007 and died in 2009 and Jeter insisted that they play his recorded introduction every time he came to…
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15 Years of Sobriety— All Hail Alcoholics Anonymous
Today marks 15 years of sobriety for me. I am not the most devout member of Alcoholics Anonymous, but I do try to practice these principles in all my affairs. The “Big Book“, which is actually titled, “Alcoholics Anonymous: The Story of How Many Thousands of Men and Women Recovered from Alcoholism” is one of the…
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All Hail Our County’s Catholic Sherriff, Making Life Harder for Pimps
Those of us who live in Chicago, which is wholly nestled in the great county of Cook in the oblong state of Illinois, have an amazing person working for us. Here’s Paul Krugman, this morning, in the New York Times:
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Bowling!
Went to an American-style bowling alley up above Kensington Gardens. But first: frisbee.
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Animated Tour Guides Delights with Arms Outstretched; Crouching
Went to Borough Market for lunch.