Author: DXO
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How To Number a Notebook
One of the essential rituals of my journal-keeping is the numbering of the pages of a new book. To me, touching each page is an incantation, invitation, prayer. Contemplate the glory and the words that will be scratched there. Time conflates and folds over and everything happens at once. I keep five types of journals at…
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Mass Project
An effort to observe Catholic Mass at every church in Chicago while collecting information about how the Mass is celebrated.
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Mass Project: St Teresa of Ávila Church
Today I went to Mass at St Teresa of Ávila Church. Here’s artifacts:
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Recounting My Sobriety Day
I looked back at some of the writing I did on Sunday, September 10, 2000— my sobriety day. I woke up “with bad hangover & very fuzzy”. I also wrote that I “decided upon waking what i had suspected and hoped: today is the day. i do not want to consume drugs or alcohol today.…
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When Irma was a child
In 1993, John F. Burns, my favorite journalist ever, wrote an article in the New York Times: British Fly to Bosnian Girl’s Rescue. Here’s a snip: SARAJEVO, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Aug. 9— After worldwide publicity about her plight, a 5-year-old girl severely wounded by a Serbian artillery shell was evacuated today from Sarajevo by a British…