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Sacred Chickens Classic: Uncle Morty and Kilgore Trout on the Intrinsic Value of a Human Being11/2/2022 Your old Uncle Morty is old and tired and dead, though not without the empathy that remains in the empty brain and metaphysical heart of anyone who has ever worn a suit of flesh. His previous embodiments leave him still puzzling as to why the living seem to value the miracle of being so very little. Even when they can be led to believe that they themselves might have some intrinsic value they seem always unlikely to give that benefit of the doubt to others. I will give you a few scraps of reasonable advice that I myself found when I walked among the living. It was expressed by two of the best men I have ever known, Kilgore Trout and George MacDonald.
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A Woman of Endurance Author, Dahlma Llanos- Figueroa Review by Julie Carpenter A Woman of Endurance tells the story of Keera, renamed Pola by her captors; it's a complex and heartbreaking tale, the history of a woman whose life pushes the limits of human endurance.
Young Keera has a special gift, given to her by goddess Yemayá, a deep sense of touch that allows her special knowledge - she knows and feels more deeply than other people, but when she is stolen from her homeland she begins to lose both her faith in the goddess and in herself. When she arrives in Puerto Rico she finds herself assigned to the cruelest of fates, she must work the cane fields and be used as a breeder for babies she herself will never mother. Death in the Mourning by Jarad Johnson I was thinking about death this morning.
Cheery topic, I know. I’m full of them. I was thinking about death, and it made me ponder, as I often do, why we as a culture, are, “death- phobic.” After all, it happens to everyone. It’s the great equalizer with a 100% percent success rate. What else can you say that about? My Xanthi Author, Stephanie Cotsirilos Review by Julie Carpenter My Xanthi is a timely story of family love, immigration, and political violence. It’s the story of
one woman’s ability to live through unspeakable tragedy make the terrible choices that follow. And endure. There’s a lot to love in this slim volume, a novella that punches far above its weight - a depth of discovery bigger than the words that fill the book, as the narrator considers the nuances of justice and the consequences of violence as they interact over generations and places. On Narrative and Comfort Books by Jarad Johnson There’s nothing quite like a familiar book, is there? You open the cover, and you’re immediately
transported back to a different time. Not only through the story you’re reading, but to the time you originally read it. One of the reasons I think that we love certain books so much is that they capture a moment or memory of when we were happier, unburdened, or content. So, when we re- read that book, we are taken back to that time and to that mindset. Parking Lots, Bars, and Falling Stars Sweet Anne Marie by Roy Peak Three things right off the bat about Pennsylvanian indie-folk artist Sweet Anne Marie that I liked before I even heard her music: In her press photos she seems a bit awkward and to me that's an adorable selling point. She's not afraid of the Oxford comma—also a good thing. And lastly, she has a song titled "Retrograde," beating me to the punch on that one. Sweet Anne Marie, my hat is off to you. Oh, and she plays a really cool Gretsch hollow body electric guitar! Poetry Jeff Weddle Love in Vain
I wish I didn’t know you were dead. These things escape notice when we are lucky. Better to remember an awkward embrace, or a dark motel room in Georgia, whispered promises, an inexpensive lunch of fish and pickles, a certain October day, the two of us beer drunk, laughing, or your face, briefly serious, a cigarette held carelessly between two fingers. I wish I could knock on some door and you would answer and be glad to see me, that I could walk through that door and say you are beautiful, to follow like your shadow to where you are. Thoughts Over Coffee, Looking Out My Window. by Jarad Johnson I don’t particularly enjoy living in an apartment.
I mean, it’s fine I guess, but I’d much rather be in a house with a large garden (If any attractive rich men with estates are available, call me - it will be best if you travel and I can be in the house alone from 50-90% of the time.) A Modern Hobo Story by Charles Whaley III by Roy Peak If you've ever been sitting in your car at a railroad crossing, waiting for a train to pass by, and wondered just what would it be like to hop that train and travel across the country, busking for money, living off the kindness of strangers at truck stops and convenient marts, sleeping in the wide open, then Ohioan Charles Whaley, also sometimes known as Captain Chucke, has a book just for you.
Musings From A Park Bench Jarad Johnson I saw a man in the park the other day claiming that he was God. He was yelling loudly at some park employees looking in a pond for some lost jewelry. “It’s in the treasury!” He proclaimed. “I’m the Lord!” Even the ducks looked perturbed.
I never know what to do in these situations, except to take my cue from our government and try to pretend it isn’t happening. However, I do remember thinking, “I always thought the Holy Father would be better dressed than that.” Maybe a suit and tie? Or long flowing robes? Even a beard? This was the same day I had car trouble, so perhaps I shouldn’t have judged so harshly. God would’ve been of more use to me that day If he had been a mechanic, not a screaming man I hurried to avoid. Mysterious ways, I guess. |
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