Saturday, 4 September 2021

The very fact that we made files labeled “Planning” suggests how little of it we did

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When I was clearing out a file drawer recently I came across a thick file labeled “Planning.” The very fact that we made files labeled “Plan...
Friday, 3 September 2021

Marriage is memory, marriage is time

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This will not be a story in which the death of the husband or wife becomes what amounts to the credit sequence for a new life, a catalyst fo...
Thursday, 2 September 2021

There is no one to hear this news, nowhere to go with the unmade plan, the uncompleted thought

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Christmas, the end of the year. I am dropping my keys on the table inside the door before I fully remember. There is no one to hear this new...
Wednesday, 1 September 2021

One way in which grief gets hidden is that death now occurs largely offstage

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One way in which grief gets hidden is that death now occurs largely offstage. In the earlier tradition from which Mrs. Post wrote, the act o...
Wednesday, 25 August 2021

Today, he sits, his name truncated; his prospects nil

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Tony Benn has risen in place. He now sits high on the Opposition backbench, In 1959, he was known as 'Anthony Wedgewood Benn', soon ...
Monday, 23 August 2021

As much as a third of all the greenhouse gases that human activity has added to the atmosphere can be attributed to the saw and the plow

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A diverse enough polyculture of grasses can withstand virtually any shock and in some places will produce in a year nearly as much total bi...
Sunday, 22 August 2021

Small farms are actually more productive than big farms;

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It's simply more cost-efficient to buy from one thousand-acre farm than ten hundred-acre farms. That's not because those big farms a...