Musings is my foothold.  Space to grapple and to chill.  It’s being absorbed in reading and sharing ideas with friends.  It’s a way to map our several paths through the threat of an ever-darkening world.

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We used to sit around coffee shops with a movie, a book, an article, a work of art, a performance still playing in our minds—throwing out ideas, offering inspiration, humor, new insights and fictive overtones for exploring both real and unreal terrain.

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Still, we are compelled to make sense of things—that’s a given.  Lucky for us, the mind must also wander.