"Get in, loser. We're doing a participant observation."

And welcome back to my podcast, "Now Where Did **That** Bruise Come From?" Episode 268. Today we'll be discussing this really odd, dark purple, mark on the inside of my right arm.....

Tyranny endures, it calmly waits.
In veiled rhetoric and seething states.
It will come again, it's all arranged.
That's how it goes, when nothing's changed.

I'm calling this design, "New Year's Revolutions."

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Wonder is an 'undoing' of all that we experience. All that we know is suspended in service to a brief moment wherein all that we will never know becomes possible. And both fear and fascination tumble through on their way to a rebirth in the stars.

Hey, check it out! My newest article, "Etched in Stone: Shaligrams as Object-Texts" has not only been published in the latest volume of the journal, Material Religion. But one of my fieldwork photos made the cover!