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The Complete “Falling into Place”
Links on the Believer Logger keep changing, and quite frankly, I like the formatting in the PDF more than online. So here it is in one place for posterity’s sake.
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Right place, right time
September 23, 2021 Before I open the front door, I consciously remain calm so as to not to freak out Stella—and fail miserably. That’s what it means to be married to someone for 29 years. My right cheek is completely swollen. She gets up from the couch and looks at me. “Are you okay?” I…
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Lantern
Made with a manual old-fashioned applesauce grinder, non-stick frying pan, and wood.
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Word and Deed
That uncertainty always happens, of course. We could use the analogy of our being here together; we are not quite certain why I am talking or why others are listening—but at the same time, it happens that way. It may have happened in the magical sense or the accidental sense, but it did happen, we…
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No retreat
“It’s much easier to be spiritual than to be emotionally authentic.” —Dr. Gabor Mate In no time I’m put to work did I ever leave? six years since Dad died five since my last sesshin [traditionally, a six day Zen meditation retreat this one was four days] two acres the farm’s nestled in a small, idyllic…
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Plant stand
Plant stand made using old legs from the bench (see below) and an Ikea wooden fruit bowl. [Photo credit: Johanne Hemond]
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Falling into Place (Part III): Conversations with a Dead Man
Wayfinding with Malcolm Mc Neill and William S. Burroughs—Part the Third, wherein the narrative takes a turn and concentrates on: John Stephens and Frederick Catherwood’s explorations in Honduras and Guatemala (1839-40) and the Yucatan region (1843) Similarities between Frederick Catherwood’s life and Malcolm Mc Neill’s own Thought control in the 21st century Mayan and European…
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Falling into Place (Part II): Ah Pook is Here Play by Play
Part II of “Falling into Place,” an exploration of Ah Pook is Here, the word-image collaboration between artist Malcolm Mc Neill and author William S. Burroughs has now been published over at the Believer Logger. Ah Pook is Here, whose brilliance has only recently been introduced to the public imagination thanks to Fantagraphics Books, is long-form graphic narrative…
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Falling into Place (Part I): Ah Pook is Still Here
Over at the Believer Logger, the first part of an extended exploration of the the never-published-in-full creative co-construction between Malcolm Mc Neill and William S. Burroughs, known as Ah Pook is Here, has just been published (October 28, 2014). There were two smaller works that also profiled the Mc Neill- Burroughs collaboration prior to Mc Neill’s memoir,…
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