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Aug 17, 2018

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Making It Up As We Go

I like how the night time antiphontal cricket concerts have started. I can still hear them this morning with the first…

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Craig "The GratiDude" Jones in Notes From The GratiDude

Aug 17, 2018

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Rashomon and How We See Things

The Kurosawa 1950 film Rashomon is about a murder described in four different ways by its four witnesses. The so-called Rashomon effect occurs when any event is given contradictory interpretations by different individuals involved. I’ve been reading lately about how it has…

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Craig "The GratiDude" Jones in Notes From The GratiDude

Aug 21, 2018

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Pronoids of the World, Unite!

I got out my Pablo Neruda collection and just opened it, not sure what I was looking for, the way people…

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Craig "The GratiDude" Jones in Notes From The GratiDude

Aug 30, 2018

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Checking That Topo Map

Author Paul Theroux, no slouch at journeying, once wrote “I think it has to be agreed that travel is generally an…

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Craig "The GratiDude" Jones in Notes From The GratiDude

Aug 23, 2018

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Where To Direct Our Attention?

Don DeLillo wrote in Pafko at the Wall (his novella about the 1951 National League pennant, which…

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Craig "The GratiDude" Jones in Notes From The GratiDude

Aug 20, 2018

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Three Minutes for Gratitude

I found out the other day that these posts each take about three minutes to read. I learned that because our…

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Craig "The GratiDude" Jones in Notes From The GratiDude

Aug 22, 2018

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My Dirty Little Secret

I enjoy hearing from readers. I have gotten comments both on the blog page and via personal emails telling me about…

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Craig "The GratiDude" Jones in Notes From The GratiDude

Aug 17, 2018

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They Ain’t Nothing Until I Call ‘Em

Saturday was the birthday of author Andre Dubus (1936–1999). Reflecting on his accident (hit by a…

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Aug 27, 2018

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Today Is The Entry point

If you’ve seen the 2017 movie Darkest Hour, in which Gary Oldman plays Winston Churchill during his first five…

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Craig "The GratiDude" Jones in Notes From The GratiDude

Aug 21, 2018

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A Way Through All of this

When I read before bed last night about the current assault on the Endangered Species Act, I briefly felt…

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These were the top 10 stories published by Notes From The GratiDude in August of 2018. You can also dive into daily archives for August of 2018 by using the calendar at the top of this page.