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From the Notebook:

Something I started, but haven’t been able to finish: America reclines in the shadowsStoking coals to keep off oncoming nightOh, but a few more hours til my eyelids burn;Til they droop from the dryAnd I must finally admit sleep Submit to sleepAfter dozing in my chairAfter waking with a broken postureAnd a gap in my […]

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I got a letter from a young man I had never heard of before and he announced blandly that he was writing stories which he thought were very much like mine and he wondered if I would read them. He was also worried about sending them to editors because they were so very much like […]

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The New Fugitives

These are my friends. Check back often. The New Fugitives

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Goal Stated:

I try to be systematic in my thinking, and therefore in my actions.  The goal is that I do not commit a lot of actions or speak a lot of words without some sort of well-planned intentions preceding them.  It makes me slow to move, but it has served me well.  Mostly. I deal with […]

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This is what my work day consists of: This is my work, this is my day, this pace, This pace won’t change, my heart won’t change this pace.

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The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims his handiwork. Day to day pours out speech, and night to night reveals knowledge. There is no speech, nor are there words, whose voice is not heard. Their voice goes out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the […]

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Whether In Pretense or In Truth

Some indeed preach Christ from envy and rivalry, but others from good will.  The latter do it out of love, knowing that I am put here for the defense of the gospel.  The former proclaim Christ out of rivalry, not sincerely but thinking to afflict me in my imprisonment.  What then? Only that in every […]

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One from Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome.  If you look in the background, you can see a picture of Jesus being laid in the tomb.  That is my favorite part of this sketch of a place with a picture in the background.

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