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A collection of essays addressing topics in North American ecology and environmentalism.

A sustained memoir narrative about the author's relationship with her father.

Leonard Murphy lived a life of urban subsistence, on the verge of thirty, and still living alone in a studio a block from his parents in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He worked part time, he took care of his dementia ridden, and hobbled, great uncle Harold. He suffered what he felt were the betrayals of modern life: his parents and Harold growing old, his brother marrying up into a well-to-do Catholic family and converting out of the Murphys tradition of atheism. But when Harold dies mysteriously after claiming to be followed by a pair Gaucho detectives, Leonard is sent on a journey into Cambridges leftist past to figure out how Harold became alienated from his community and ended up losing a leg. Teaming up with a childhood friend, the local librarian, the director of a historical walking tour, and eventually the Gaucho detectives themselves, Leonard searches Cambridges history for how radicalization, community, and his family failed modernitys great tests.

It is when art displaces, defamiliarizes the world around us. It is what creates, succumbs, hurts, manipulates, that is, the experience of energy. When we find words a journey begins. The language we create to experience a world to move through, the language that inhabits the travelers one meets along the way. THOUGH WE BLED METICULOUSLY is when we choose to destroy, when we choose to open ourselves to destruction to see what might happen.

Four short stories and a novel chapter.

What follows are a collection of personal essays that focus on close examinations of shifting meaning. Many essays are intensely focused on aesthetics, from the aesthetic elegance of idealized love, through art, to what personal meaning for which people live. Aestheticism seems an ideal that is to be strived for, but never attained. The included essays focus on the disparity between the banality of a lived life and perceived elegance.

The eleven stories in You Thrive Now and Other Stories aim to explore the ways in which we misunderstand the people around us, how we become aware of those misunderstandings, and the ways we then choose to cope with them. Conversely, they examine what we do when we understand others or ourselves clearly and wish we didn't.

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