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Trucks Put to Other Use

Photo by John Griswold     Of course a city garbage truck—big, dangerous, smelly—was the big hit at the local Touch a Truck event today, and both kids and parents enthused over it. My younger son had volunteered to help staff the event, and it was one of our first…

First Step Across A Line

Photo by John Griswold   “How far, in any case, must one go back to find the beginning?” —WG Sebald, After Nature   I know someone who used to say, at key life-moments: I’m going to just [do this one thing], and we’ll see what happens. If you looked…

Theme for Lester

For thirty-three years, until his death on November 8, 1999, trumpet player Lester Bowie was the face of the Art Ensemble, playing trumpet at center stage while wearing the white laboratory coat that marked him as the sound scientist in charge of the band’s musical experiments.

What Side-Eye Toddler Tells Us About Ourselves

The explosion of interest in NFTs seems a harmless quirk of the market, like the absurd price a retro action figure, boxed and pristine, can command on eBay. But why would the mere fact of $74,000 wipe away skepticism and convince us, purely by the abstract value attached to the abstract cryptocurrency used to buy intangible pixels, that such barter holds promise for our future?

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