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[Older and Growing] "...Through a heavy metal door we found ourselves in this confined space surrounded by machinery that from time to time would spring unexpectedly into whirring, clanking life - the lift machine room..."


[Hoarded Ordinaries] Thursday on my way to other business, I stopped for a short walk at the Minute Man National Historical Park in Lexington, Massachusetts. For all the years we lived in an around Boston and Cambridge, I'd never actually set foot on this protected portion of the "Battle Road" where American militia clashed with British soldiers on April 19, 1775.


[Via Negativa] Before the monitor's blank screen I bow my head, waiting for the words to come. The hum of this machine of mine keeps me steady, like the upper cable of a makeshift bridge across a river. And I'm picturing that time on the cable bridge across Hammersley Fork, at the end of a long day's hike.


[alembic] I wonder how many people who live here in Marin realize that their county is named after a Miwok Indian chief who resisted the Spanish back in the days when the Missions set the standards of what could be called courageous behavior? Or, that the prison, in which executions go on regularly to this day – and which is less than a mile away from a shopping center with a hopping singles bar, and upscale shops, and movie theaters, and yoga and hair studios – is named after another Miwok “troublemaker” from the past?


[Nerve] Cleveland's Soldiers and Sailors Memorial is 110 years old on July 4. Encrusted with military symbols and decorated with realistic battle scenes, it's unique among monuments of the time. It's the polar opposite of the Vietnam War monument. Both are testaments of courage, not that I have the right to write about either. -- P.


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