Your one wild and precious life

Watercolored drawing by Greg Pak. I think a lot about Mary Oliver's poem "The Summer Day" and its stunning last two lines: Tell me, what is it you plan to…

Greg May 31, 2023

Music

Paul Simon and the Jessy Dixon Singers, “Bridge over Troubled Water”

https://www.youtube.com/embed/is2qtuQ1gDI When I was discovering pop music as a Dallas fifth grader somewhere around 1978, Simon & Garfunkel was the first band to blow my mind. Their greatest hits collection…

Greg May 30, 2023

Life Politics

New blog!

I've had a website since 1998 and was blogging before I knew it had a name. For a stretch in the early 2000s, I was running multiple blogs on topics…

Greg May 26, 2023

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