Saturday, May 24, 2025

The bitter pill

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Friday, May 23, 2025

The gift

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  I believe we didn't ask to be born. And that the world owes us a living. We give ourselves, all of us, to the world without choice, an...
Thursday, May 22, 2025

Finding a way through

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The space I have taken up

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Looking out

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Trying to fit in

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Outgrowing the library

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  Putting cartoons of me, especially cartoons of me in my library, wasn't meant as some great metaphorical act. But the reason I keep ma...
Wednesday, May 21, 2025

Midnight flower surprise

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I saw Messi, or the more things change, the more they stay the same

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  I saw Messi and it was... nice. In the mid-1970s, when I was a child, I became obsessed with a baseball player named Rod Carew. He played ...
Tuesday, May 20, 2025

Documenting the fall of humanity...

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Monday, May 19, 2025

Flowers 11, 12, 13, and 14!

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Flower number ten

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Flowers seven eight and nine

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On Bob Newhart's funny joke

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  It cannot bode that well to say that today's panel cartoon needs all kinds of explanation. I was shelving upstairs at my library and c...
Sunday, May 18, 2025

Three unnumbered flowers

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Flowers 3 through 6

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flower 2

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Scattering flowers

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  In one of my early forays into photography on clerkmanifesto, back in the early days of the pandemic, I took a lot of pictures of flowers....
Saturday, May 17, 2025

Two moments with Bob Dylan

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Friday, May 16, 2025

Coming soon to a flower blog near you!

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  An upcoming preview of future clerkmanifesto shenanigans, flower photos, lots of flower photos: