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Michael

My lifelong friend Michael shown here in the hospital in treatment for his cancer that eventually took him from us over a year and a half now. Here visiting with his doggie friend. I met Mike (that’s what I always called him) when we were both about 12 and the friendship spanned almost half a […]

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A Leaf in Time

If one looks carefully on the sidewalk near counseling at HHS you’ll notice this modern fossil. When workers poured the sidewalk, a solitary leaf fell unnoticed, or maybe it was noted, and the individual laying the concrete left it on purpose. Sort of an inside joke. A subtle signature.So, there it lays. The tree like a mischievous, […]

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Perfect People

  Perfect People The parade of perfect people has begun. Soon, therewill be few faces, tracedwith the leavings of acnescars from youth. Soon,all teeth will compare to the white of pasteurizedmilk, straightenedpast the charm of a gap, or twist. The parade of perfect peopleis growing. Botox tightenedforeheads, devoid of  reaction.Scalpel tightened throats swallowing age. The parade […]

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