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Looking over this week’s quiz, I think I can answer some of these. Let’s give it a shot!    What was the last song you listened to? Yesterday I started listening to Wagner’s Das Rheingold, leaving off somewhere in Act I.     What is your favorite thing about the place you live? There’s a wonderful blend of nature and urban here. Plus proximity to water. I do not know how people live in waterless places.     What is your earliest childhood memory? “Just images, really. Feelings.” –Princess Leia And that’s really about it: no specific memories, just images ofDown the rabbit hole….

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Here’s some stuff that’s been languishing in open tabs on my browser: ::  Matt Zoller Seitz on Clint Eastwood’s current movie, both as a movie and as a data point in how movies are exhibited and marketed these days. The movie biz has always been a cynical one run by people who would steal the coins from a dead man’s eyes, but sheesh. Read the article for more. (The article has spoilers for the actual movie, but they’re forewarned and they come pretty late in the piece.) ::  There doesn’t seem to be a whole lot of buzz in theDown the rabbit hole….

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From SundayStealing we get these questions: When do I feel most authentically myself: When I’m writing or taking photos.  What I’m thankful for today Ooof. I’m not gonna lie here: Thankfulness has not had a good run of late. A memory I hope I never forget So many! But I’ll go with looking at the girl I was sitting next to at the local college bar, where we were celebrating a mutual’s birthday, and wondering why I hadn’t noticed how pretty she was. Later, we married. Other ways I connect with long distant friends Mostly social media these days. HowDown the rabbit hole….

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I had no idea what to say last week, and I find I still have no idea what to say this week. Yes, I have thoughts on the decision this country made. No, I do not know when–or even if–I will write them up in this space. I’m not sure any of it matters. In such times I retreat to the greats who produced great human art in times that were objectively worse. In his 41st and last symphony, Mozart produced an astonishingly optimistic and universal view which amazes all the more when I consider that he was already well into the healthDown the rabbit hole….

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Sorry about the radio silence of late, folks, but I’ll be honest: Current Events are consuming more of my brain cycles than I want to admit, and while I could fill this space with my thoughts as to how the Election For All Time is going…I just don’t want to write about that. But I also can’t find a lot of mental energy right now to write about anything else. So, you get pictures. I took these of the morning sky. The first is of Orion the Hunter, partly shrouded by clouds; this was taken on a morning when I was upDown the rabbit hole….