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I’m an #essayist and #writer mainly of creative nonfiction (see my Substack). I’m also an academic, higher-ed leader, and lapsed professional #philosopher.

I was (am?) @dorsalstream on Twitter, now here I am. Welcome, friends.

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I’ve been thinking about this Diane Seuss poem lately, particularly the phrase “poems are someone else’s clothes I slipped / into so I could skip town”

What clothes have I borrowed over the years and to skip which towns?

I love this quote from Anni Albers, artist and teacher at Black Mountain College. BMC was an experimental college that existed from 1933-1957 dedicated to the idea that college education should be interdisciplinary and centered around arts making.
Hear me out. Unity VP candidate?
Good dose of perspective from Josef Albers
“Morality is not meant to check the conduct of monsters” (from Stanley Cavell)
As an unprincipled, laughably corrupt conservative majority on SCOTUS chooses to remake American society according to its whims, we have moving and compassionate dissents by Jackson and Sotomayor expressing the thoughtfulness and compassion that befit these important questions.
Imagine a fortune teller flips this one over
Just started reading Diane Seuss’s collection “frank: sonnets” and I’m thrown by each page
#poetry
Looking through an old book just now I came across a Far Side cartoon I’d used as a bookmark, and I have to share.
Part of a balanced evening snacking regimen