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    The Seduction and Romance of Faulty Memory, Part One: My Sister at the Family Piano

    M is for Music / November 1, 2013 / 0 Comments

    Like great pieces of music, sounds from nature and the outdoors act as time machines. Listen! Gently rustling leaves at sunset. Among the leaves there is the loud insistent whirr of locusts. The…

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    Insomnia, Part One: Cat’s Paw

    M is for Music / November 1, 2013 / 0 Comments

    Recently Judy was in Michigan visiting our family for several days, and actually, I wasn’t sleeping too badly. That was nice, because I have trouble sleeping pretty often. Among other things, Judy’s absence…

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    Insomnia: Part Two: Lonely Time (A young insomniac’s guide to selections from the popular music of the late-60s and early-70s.)

    M is for Music / November 1, 2013 / 0 Comments

    Is there is a more exquisitely lonely time than 4:07 a.m.? Veteran insomniacs know it well. A time for a haunted heart and mind, it is nighttime’s point of no return – too…

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    Insomnia, Part Three: If you knew Suzanne like I knew Suzanne

    M is for Music / November 1, 2013 / 0 Comments

    August 1985. Returning for fall term from his home in Denver to our little college in Nebraska, Stanley Howell brought a girl back to campus. A doughy, genial, awkward guy, Stanley carried a…

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    Great Joy

    M is for Music / November 1, 2013 / 0 Comments

    In a year with so many phenomenal releases, the Montreal trio, No Joy, have given us 14 extra special reasons to appreciate 2013. In April they released one of the years’ greatest, most…

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