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Two column Word document with original text on the left hand side and a poem translated from that text on the right.

This is one of those mornings. The ideas are backed up like planes at O’Hare Airport. Almost every morning I write in a Google Form. It is a practice I started after reading Matthew Dicks’ awesome book Storyworthy. The prompt is the same every morning: what was storyworthy yesterday? So simple yet so evocative. Here’s
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What to Do, Oh Dear, What to Do?

Chris Hedges is our finest Cassandra. His experience with war and devastation is deep and wide. We want to trust him, but if we do then we get warnings like the one below: Optimism is not really warranted, but pragmatism is. Despair on top of dire warnings is a form of learned helplessness. If we
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I have joined what the National Writing Project’s Writing Studio calls a “deeper dive”.  It is a writing workshop and our first task is to introduce ourselves.  I have mixed feelings about the efficacy of introductions. In a Zoom meeting, I think they should be done a little before the official session begins otherwise the
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