October 3, 2010
The Hum of Wet Skin
The smell of pavement after a sudden downpour is a sharp, metallic sweetness that sticks to the back of the throat. It...
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Reflections
October 2, 2010
The Geography of Sparks
In the seventeenth century, mapmakers often filled the empty spaces of their charts with drawings of sea monsters or swirling winds, a...
October 1, 2010
The Weight of the Ancestors
There is a curious physics to tradition. We often imagine it as something heavy, a stone anchor dropped into the silt of...