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About earthboar

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About earthboar
Biography:
I like to read and write. I enjoy religious and spiritual material, and tend toward a synthesis of the mystical and magical.
Location:
The Berkshire Hills, Massachusetts
Interests:
reading, polymer clay, php programming, photography, nature.
Occupation:
newspaper correspondent

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09-05-2007 11:33 AM
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Café, not cubicle!

by earthboar on 08-02-2007 at 07:40 AM
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Besides haunting used book stores, cafés are among my favorite places to work. By work I mean write, just like in the old days of Hemingway and Oscar Wilde.

[QUOTE]“The mass believes that it has the right to impose and to give force of law to notions born in the cafe.” - Jose Ortega y Gasset[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE]“In my painting of the 'All -Night Cafe' I've tried to express the idea that the

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Summertime blues

by earthboar on 07-25-2007 at 04:20 PM
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[COLOR="Blue"]Summer '07 is proving to be one of the better blueberry growing seasons in recent years. These were found growing high up on Florida Mountain, Massachusetts, elevation 2,250 feet.[/COLOR]

Yesterday might be described as a bad day, relatively speaking. I should have consulted an I Ching reading, or at least paid better attention to my instincts. I talked for too long to my

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Used-bookstores

by earthboar on 07-13-2007 at 10:32 AM
We can trace our passions to particular individuals who introduced something new to us, either deliberately or incidentally. In my case it was a girlfriend, a relationship that petered out in less than a year. Twice in my life I had been with someone who appreciated a good used-bookstore. The relationship didn’t endure, but my love for old books did. There was a decades-long lag between my first period of used-bookstore excursions and my second.

While the girl moved on, my love affair

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Summer of...what?

by earthboar on 07-03-2007 at 11:08 AM
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[SIZE="5"]Summer of...what?[/SIZE]

by Gregory G. Lewis

NORTHAMPTON - On Saturday, June 30 I won two tickets to a Northampton concert billed alternately as "The Summer of Love" or "First Aid". I believe the latter was more descriptive of its function. The concert was supposed to start rather early the following day, July 1, a

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Summer of...what?

by earthboar on 07-03-2007 at 11:07 AM
(see [URL="http://blog.newsketeer.com"]blog.newsketeer.com[/URL] for original blog, with photos)
[SIZE="5"]Summer of...what?[/SIZE]

by Gregory G. Lewis

NORTHAMPTON - On Saturday, June 30 I won two tickets to a Northampton concert billed alternately as "The Summer of Love" or "First Aid". I believe the latter was more descriptive of its function. The concert was supposed to start rather early the following day, July 1, a

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