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November 1, 2009

In Real Times

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The Tea Party world

is still that of genuinely funny things -- not the sour mordancy of Letterman; it is still one of basic fears and simple joys, of aching feet and a welcome ice-cream soda at the end of the day. Some people spend their whole lives trying to get away from it; to forget the memory of people sitting around a sunny porch eating peanuts, to try with various expensive unguents to wash the smell of new-mown grass and two stroke gasoline fumes from their hair. That is what "success" all too often means in certain circles. That and a line of white powder across a table. In the end they may arrive at a palace of chrome and glass, all cold air and ice at some dizzying height above the world. But they must always remember, or forget at their peril, that it is all upborne by truth and human love. -- Belmont Club » Bows and Flows

Posted by Vanderleun at November 1, 2009 10:46 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.

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Don't mean to gush, but I am so grateful that your seining brings up things like this piece.

I just came in from burning leaves -
leaf soot in my hair. More to go. See them here:
http://outback.hodar.com/index2.html

Posted by: Cathy at November 3, 2009 8:39 AM

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