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The old rubber ball of life
“Lying at the heart of humor, creativity is risk taking. You will never do great things unless you ...
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A welcome weekend in Cloquet
“Poetry is an act of peace. Peace goes into the making of a poet as flower goes into ...
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And the night reclaims the light
A book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us.” — Kafka
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Welcoming family
“But when all you do comes out of nothingness, then you have everything…that is what we mean by ...
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Getting to Vietnam
“People have a way of telling you what they think you wanna hear — anytime I don’t ...
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Memories and getting a helping hand from the sun
“The principles of control and discipline ought to be abandoned in favor of self-control and self-discipline. “ — ...
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Remembering 50 years later
“New ideas do not come from the mainstream; they come from the “radical” edge of society that challenge ...
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Labor Day a calming backdrop
“People have a way of telling you what they think you wanna hear — anytime I don’t know ...
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Searching for Mello’s next friend
“All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives there lies a ...
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How much did President Bush work?
“I think people will find out that I’m plenty capable of conducting foreign policy of the United States ...
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Eleanor Roosevelt in the modern age of today
“A democratic form of government, a democratic way of life…presupposes also an education for personal responsibility that is ...
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Sometimes a Pooh-bear knows the world best
“Among the great things which are to be found among us, the Being of Nothingness is the greatest.” ...
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Reading to remember
“But as Socrates had warned his students, once we learn how to read we may forget how to ...
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Getting down to the ‘Bones’ of writing
“What you fear will not go away. It will take you into yourself and bless you and keep ...
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Saying hello with a smile rather than a bark
“The possibility of our communion away from the material world fascinated me as a kind of revelation of ...