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How to Carry Your Broken Bones

October 22, 2025

At the end of the week we dragged our various brokenness west on highway 29, across the Mississippi river, through the tangled Cities and landed on a Minnesota lake encircled with plenty. Not quite the wilderness but at night you can still see the stars and the light shines in yellow parallellograms on thick green … More How to Carry Your Broken Bones

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Vire-en-Champagne, April 1919

February 18, 2019

Two months shy of a century ago, it’s been raining in France, great sheets snapping like sodden flags across the farmer’s field – And my grandfather’s father, a child of German immigrants, sits down in soldier’s boots, and looking at the crops with a farmer’s eye, writes a few lines to his brother in Barnesville, … More Vire-en-Champagne, April 1919

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The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God, the herdsman, goads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.  –

WB Yeats

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