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Observing Comet Hale-Bopp, Summer 1997
Every evening during the summer I had to water Grandma’s stunted Colter pine it grew out of a wine barrel that was slowly falling to pieces its rusty iron flaking off to mix with dried red pine needles and pitiful pinecones half-cooked on hot asphalt I would stand there with a green hose looking up…
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The Greatest Show on Earth?
Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey is closing down its circus after 146 years. They claim its a changing climate, that children no longer have the attention span to sit through a multi-hour show, not when video games and cellphones beckon. For years they have been harangued for how they treat animals in their shows,…
The Numinous Cosmos 