[Jim Moonan]

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Clearing (99 words, no edits)

Arriving here in the clearing, I’m in the midst of realizing that I’ve spent much of my life overlooking things that return again and again to be recognized and understood for the first time. My mind has lived in thrall for so many years and is now beginning to animate once again, to thaw back to life. Have I really been so distracted, so rushed, so preoccupied, so thoughtless as to have not seen? The only parties I go to these days are birthday parties. I go mostly for the cake. And for the singing. I never stay long.

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