All Things Rhapsodical

All Things Rhapsodical

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Suffering and Hope

Suffering and Hope

Paean to two sirens of my youth

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Aug 25, 2022
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The sound of your voices is a café and a used bookstore, drifting through the streets of Hillcrest, North Park, University Heights, Normal Heights, Kensington.  It is the sun on my face and my feet on the sidewalk as I make my pilgrimage daily, stopping at every altar to drink, eat, read, wonder what my life will be in that sacrosanct time yet to come. 

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