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One Big Happy Family
All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Tolstoy, Anna Karenina You can choose your friends but you sho' can't choose your family, an' they're still kin to you no matter whether you acknowledge 'em or not, and it makes you look...
Life’s Pleasant Surprises
These are random thoughts, silly meaningless phrases, ideas, definitions, quotes, etc. Does it matter where they come from? I cite sources when I can. The soul, whatever that is, seems to need these interstices, room to stretch, degrees of freedom, mental doodles...
Book Review: Autumn by Ali Smith
[Click on BLUE links for sources and information] We are living in a culture that insists on lying as its delivery of how we are living,” she said then. “It insists on telling us information about which we are left wondering whether it is true or not … Fiction and...
Think in the Morning Oaxaca Journal
[Click on BLUE links for sources and information] Oaxaca is one of the most beautiful places on earth in our opinion. We have visited every year for the past twelve years. Because we write so much about Oaxaca, we are often asked how to travel there, what to do,...
Pop Goes the Weasel
[Click on BLUE links for sources and information] Disclosure: I have no particular insight into the financial markets. In this I am in good company (just read the financial press for a battery of conflicting reports). Just a couple of weeks ago the famous bond...
Do We Live In An Artificial World
[Click on BLUE links for sources and information]I’m not a Christian at least in any formal way but I do read the Bible. In this I agree with Christopher Hitchens (RIP)."A culture that does not possess this common store of image and allegory will be a perilously thin...
Alien
[Click on BLUE links for sources and information] Long, long ago there were people who listened to radio shows. This was before television created the way for cellphones and when the earth was still inhabitable. Even before this time, before the radio was in...
Poem By Think in the Morning: Micpapalotl
In remembrance of Francisco Toledo [REVISED] Micpapalotl (The Black Witch Moth) In Oaxaca the rains end lateIn the Fall and thoughts turnTo life and death and fateAnd to what we might learn About death from the deadWhen they come to visitAs it is often saidThey do. ...
The Lowly Frog
[Click on BLUE links for sources and information] For a long time the frogs went on talking, “It’s eerie here! It’s eerie here!” and the bullfrog, after a meditative silence, “I know! I know!” Then the nervous frog again, “It’s eerie here—it’s eerie.” The...
Oaxacan Wood Carvings: Folk Art or Fine Art?
[Click on BLUE links for sources and information] If you've read our past blogs you may be aware that Think in the Morning has long been fascinated by Oaxacan Wood Carvings also known as Alebrijes (although this name originated with the papier-mâché animals created...
Name Dropping
[Click on BLUE links for sources and information] Reminiscence and anecdote, as they tell of one's meetings with the great or the prominent, are an established form of self-enhancement. They make known that one was there. This is not my purpose; my aim is to inform...
The Bartender
[Click on BLUE links for sources and information] Think in the Morning has a number of posts on the Sea Gull Cellar Bar, a Mendocino watering hole that existed in the 70s and 80s. We’ve already told several of our stories from those times. A bartender is part...