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Birds trill. Wolves howl. People sing.
They do it, as Jim Leary puts it with simultaneous humor and profundity, to say: “I’m here. Somebody is here!”
This existential cry has been ringing out all over the world for thousands of years. It thrums over the mountain of Tibet, where monks throat-sing;...
When I was a kid, I tried to get a ghost to help me be good at baseball.
The person I cared about most in the world had died. She wasn’t technically a relative, not a mother or grandmother, but she was actually something more. She lived next door to us on the farm.
While my mom and dad...
“Daddy, can I get another pet?”
“Maybe,” I replied.
“And this time can I get one that won’t die?”
“Well, I’ll do a Google search for ‘immortal pets,’ but I can’t promise anything,” I said, unsure, as always, if I was doing permanent psychological damage with my words.
When the fish we won at a...
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