Where mathematics meets God,
where the cacophony of every human voice is harnessed
into an ordered and purposeful whole —
that’s where you reside. Yet
how unlikely, how perverse even,
that your name should sound like someone
clearing his throat,
preparing to expectorate in a most unmelodic way.
Sweeping cereal dust over weathered wooden floors
He knew this push-broom life was not his.
Brave soldiers and dashing lovers, charming spies and magnetic saviors,
Giant heroes
On a screen –
These were his people. And (in darker moments) his friends,
His Sirens, beckoning from a distant place,
Where corn was found in polished supermarket aisles,
and in endless regiment rows outside a frosty window.
Too beautiful to stay.
Too beautiful.
Songs that make…
Writer, poet, artist, improviser, lyricist, former television personality, and generally decent person.
The Shanti Bhavan boarding school, in Tamil Nadu, India, founded by a rich man who realized giving away most of his money to the “lowest” members of his society would make him infinitely richer, caters to children of the Dalits, the so-called “untouchables,” India’s bottom caste. The goal is to educate them so they can take care...
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