etc., recall the word
resoldered here
in a pane of sand.
— R. Kenney

December 3, 2010  
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Recently this blog (and my Flickr account) turned 20 years old, forever in Internet years. I went back through it all, retracing digital footprints made on what feels like a different planet. Here are some highlights.

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Prefer to listen to this post? Good evening, fellow travelers! Dust off those walking shoes or mount your beast of burden because on this journey we’re traveling down a single road. It’s a relatively lengthy one, though, and it has many ups and downs, twists and turns. Today we are taking a trip down Witch […]

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On a trip to visit my son recently I spotted a number of birds sitting on what I think were power cables strung across the highway. (Perhaps they were looking out for wildfires.) I was immediately reminded of a musical stave, with the resting birds as notes. So I played them. Here’s what they sound […]

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