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Theo and Sprout Excerpt for Kentucky Derby Day
I STEPPED through the looking glass when I mowed the lawn. I used to like mowing the grass. I know, an odd concept for a teenager. I liked to mow the lawn because I entered a separate world, alone. Alone literally or alone in the loud roar the mower created, a zone of aloneness around…
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Being Small
Like three years ago, I worked on a set of practice writings based on the idea of being small in a big world. I never knew what to do with them, but realized as I stumbled across them again that they were a precursor to Theo and Sprout in theme and voice, even though the…
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Train Cars of Life
Train Car, train car, train carCounting the cars pass byThough I really can’t countSo perhaps I am just notingTheir passage through my lifeAn ability to observe but not quantitateI simply feel they are going byThe train cars, the people, lifeThe colors, the graffiti, the shapesAll blend into one experienceI won’t lament the passing of analysisFrom…
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Breaking the Rules
Break the rules. That’s the advice I give people who are feeling constrained or stifled by the endless rules that abound in life or art or anything for that matter. Sometimes they are arbitrary. Sometimes they are illogical. Sometimes they are archaic. Sometimes they are passed off as defining right and wrong. They all have something…
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The Eye Roll does not Lie
I’m really not much of a liar. I really suck at it. I think it’s because my face gives everything away anyway so why bother. I suppose deceit is kind of in my vocabulary in that I can withhold truth because I’m pretty good at not saying anything. In that line of thinking I watched the…
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Imperfection
This world is not for the mediocre. The average. The healthy. The normal. We’re obsessed with over achievers, adrenalin junkies, insane perfectionists. My favorite one is obsession with technical perfection in the arts. Virtuosos, technical wizards, blemish free anything. I always thought art was about communicating emotions and ideas. Commentary on life, the universe and…
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Pandora
I have tendency to misread headlines and billboards and ads and such. I saw an ad for Pandora Radio. “On the Go? Bring Pandora.” I was pretty sure it said “Oh the God. Being Pandora,” which is a little strange but I must say it did seem to strike a chord in me. Perhaps we…
Joseph Gergen Works 