Author: DXO
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Orientation, Minnesota
Over the last couple days I was in Minneapolis for “orientation” at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities. I am disoriented. My child will go to college there. Here are some thoughts + photos:
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The Macon I Know
I enjoy business travel. Each time I leave home, and I have it in my head that I have to make it productive, worthwhile, and fruitful. That means doing my wurk and documenting it all. I especially love to go to a new city– somewhere I haven’t been before. I try to take my good…
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The Tampa Municipal Office Building and its Adjacent Brick Courtyard are Brutalist Masterpieces
The fronds and green and waterfalls made for oasis, and the plaza pavers climb the rough surface up.
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Holy Trinity Songs, May 2017
These three songs are currently holy to me. I play them again and again, in the same order. It’s like going to Church.
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Archiving Schoolwork and Other Stuff from Your Kids
One thing about school kids in our culture is that they make a lot of stuff. I am a parent of two boys and I’m also an avowed archivist. Over the years, I’ve developed some practices for managing and storing the stuff kids make, collect, and earn over the course of childhood. Since my oldest child…