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Bastille Day, Barbecue Smoke, and the Weight of History

It’s Bastille Day. All across France, sausages sizzle on supermarket grills, fireworks crack like toy guns in the evening sky, and municipal...
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"Art of Trouble"

Trouble. Why does it follow me like I’m the opposing magnet to its negative force and if I am the positive force, why should it follow me at all? A...
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Froggy Came A-Courting (And So Did I)

There’s an old English folk song I half-remember from childhood — “A Froggy Went A-Courting.” It drifts in with its lilting tune and strange courtly...

The 12th Anniversary Of Dad's Death

When Dad got Leukemia, he put up a fight. He took chemo but lost his battle 12 years ago tonight. After months of taking chemotherapy, he died. He...
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And Yet I Still Watch

I scroll through YouTube’s endless thumbnails and I am bored. Bored of the screaming, the sensationalism, the world set permanently to crisis pitch...

An Expression Of Celtic Dreaming

An Expression Of Celtic Dreaming By Paul McCann Within our subconsious mind there are these escape hatches on the mystical pathway , That is where we...
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Mother Of Debt

Mother Of Debt By Paul McCann Mother of debt It’s hard to forget the bills that need paid and money we owe . Mother of debt We work hard each day and...

Longing to Belong

[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] Estrangement, distance, alienation, suspiciousness between each nation; in family, and friendships’ strain:...
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The Flying Brick

I’d been scouring AutoTrader for weeks — every spare moment, even before I passed my full motorcycle test. What I really wanted was one of those...

The Busker’s Fairytale

The Busker’s Fairytale By Paul McCann The crowd walked along through Buskers Lane like a passing parade . I stood there like before them, a man with...

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