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Around 1990 or so, when I became the last person in the world to learn of the Grateful Dead, I was enamored of a song the band often used as an encore: Brokedown Palace. It was a wistful, introspective sort of number about birds and a river and farewells that stuck with me over the years, and so when I decided to paint some word pictures—well, you can see where the title came from. I hope the writings that follow will occasionally be as evocative as the sound of that old song. I’m pretty sure they will be as pointless as its lyrics.
(Photos: Spices in the Otavalo market; eucalyptus forest above Ibarra, Imbabura, Ecuador)
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The Indentured Valley
“Writing a column is easy,” said the sportswriter Red Smith in 1961. “You just sit at your typewriter until little drops of blood appear on your forehead.” That’s part of the reason I never wrote a column – that, and the … Continue reading
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