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Sea winds pierce our solitude. That’s how Ralph Waldo Emerson described the month of May. I see it quite differently.
Yes, it’s a moon I would describe to bless Mother’s …
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Mike Fink
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5/10/24
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Poets praise folly, perhaps to protect their art form from harsh assaults. Poets praise folly, perhaps to protect their art form from harsh assaults.
I have excerpted a few lyrical …
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Mike Fink
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4/5/24
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Surely I can’t be the first to note the close spelling of “Hamas” and the villainous “Haman,” who is so evil that we use rattles to drown out his very name.
But the …
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Mike Fink
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3/1/24
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Trees have spoken to me pretty much all my life: Every day is Tu B’Shevat to me!
Yeah, I learned from poems, even Joyce Kilmer’s famous lines, which turned into the lyrics to the …
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Mike Fink
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2/2/24
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Aesop, of the Fables, was taken hostage and enslaved by the Athenian Greeks: Is the central moral of his tales, in any sense, Jewish?
Well, the very word , or name, “Aesop” is …
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Mike Fink
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1/7/24
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Of my many sabbatical semesters throughout my six-decade career at the Rhode Island School of Design, my favorite journey was a mere nearby jaunt around Rhode Island, a trip of only a few hours.
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Mike Fink
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12/3/23
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If I were to produce an accounting of my nearly nine decades, it would honestly consist mostly of trivia, mini-tragedies of my own shortcomings and idle goings, hardly worth further attention.
I …
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Mike Fink
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11/6/23
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Kids’ picture books present variations on the Torah tales, inviting each young scholar to test his/her imagination and let their innocent interpretive skills go to work while they play.
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Mike Fink
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10/5/23
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We got down to our wee place in Middlebridge, in South Kingstown, a bit late this season, but I am making the most of these weeks before Labor Day.
I seek out my neighborhood cohorts of summers …
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Mike Fink
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9/1/23
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I have a winter garden here in Providence, plus a summer garden in, aptly, South County.
What does that mean, “have”? Oh, I pay taxes on each property, and I have the yards, front …
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Mike Fink
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8/4/23
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