How ’bout a shout-out to Mary-Chapin Carpenter. I love her old albums. This song is a fitting statement about my current situation, and a great send-off as I head into the sunset to visit my beloved as she steals a few precious moments from her 1040s and Schedule Cs to spend with me.
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This is from an article by Andrea Clark in the Winter Solstice issue of Rain and Thunder. It’s deep and pretty writing, if in some places odd and obscure, and I like it. This part especially struck me:

“Misogyny is composed of lies, and lies make me invisible. It’s not hatred that makes me […]

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Sigh.
That makes the first four months of the year a lonely time for me. Given that we don’t live in the same state, you might be tempted to shrug and say, “Six of one…”–but now we’re not just physically separated, we’re psychically separated by columns of numbers dancing in her head, exhausting her and narrowing […]

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