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To date, this is how the very few interactions I've had with Never Trumpers have gone, because I want to talk about the Befor...
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“This maybe the year when we finally come face to face with ourselves; finally just lay back and say it—that we are really j...
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Thankee!
All Waits Is Great Waits!
No comments (well, none when I started this post)? No comments on what is undeniably (IMHO) Waits's most poignantly evocative foray into lives most of us never imagine? Waits makes visible what is invisible: the lives we don't see when we drive by scantily-clad shivering women teetering on icy sidewalks or when the gleam of a worn-out miniature Christmas tree in the high slash-window of a local dive bar catches our eye. Waits reminds us that it is our yearnings that make us human and that the dreams in which they are expressed are in direct proportion to our lived reality. The hooker's simple dream of an ordinary life is no less sublime than another woman's dream of fame, and it is more honest in its expectations. What better manifesto to balance this dogmatically overdetermined season, than to insist that we all have hopes and dreams? What message could be more appropriate in its simplicity? So, thank you, Mr. Waits, and you, too, Driftglass. Happy...(well, whatever).
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