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And here they are. The posts from April to June
🏆 The Favorites
Adam Nathan: "You and the Kid"
A song for my son: “You and the Kid” A few weeks ago, my son took his girlfriend on a surprise trip to Maine. He worked out the details with her boss in advance to get her the time off. He rented a treehouse cottage, hired a photographer to record the day, and you know where this is going. She said yes. She will be a blessing in his life and in ours.
Chicago: “Little One”
My daughter turns 21 today. Her mother and I are in France as I write this. We are celebrating our own significant milestone, a thirtieth anniversary, first revisiting the village where we honeymooned in Normandy, and now the South of France where we took the children to live for a wild, reckless sabbatical year. It was the year we planted the family fla…
Buried In the Mix: "Shelter from the Storm"
#1 0:03 – You hear the metallic rattle of something striking the body of the guitar. This continues throughout the entire recording. A Metallic Rattling This effort with Shelter from the Storm kicked off by chance. I noticed the first of the bullets itemized below - a metallic rattling - maybe a button on Dylan’s sleeve? a pick? striking the body of the …
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💸 Ask Tip! — "Furious on the 4th Floor"
“Furious on the 4th Floor” Dear Tippi, I live in a four-story walkup on the Lower East Side. Last week I was having my refrigerator replaced, and two men from the box store came to carry my new refrigerator up to my top floor apartment. The younger man forgot to bring the dolly so they were forced to carry it by hand. Then the older man wanted to cancel b…
🚶♂️The 1000-Mile Walk Is Over (But Not for Your Friends)
Finisterre (Love and Loss on the Camino de Santiago)
The Table of Contents for my serialized memoir of a 1000-mile walk from the South of France to the coast of Spain.
🐈⬛ The Catwalk Series: A Fictional Restaurant & Lessons in Walking
🐈⬛ Catwalk
From its opening night six weeks ago, the Catwalk rules have been straightforward: everyone walks the runway. You can’t get into the restaurant any other way. There’s no “back door” into the downstairs nightclub. There’s no walking the runway with the security of somebody at your side. God or mortal, male or female, guests must be willing to walk alone …
🐈⬛ Catwalk: The Meatpacking District
If you haven’t heard about Catwalk, New York’s hottest new restaurant, then the only thing you need to know is that every last guest, even the owners, need to walk into the restaurant along a modeling runway. This hellish plank stretches above two very, very long parallel cocktail bars. The bar crowd exists to evaluate the incoming. The New York Times c…
🦉 Birds and a Portal
Around and Around
There was once a flock of birds that lived on a wire. Everything they did they did together. When one bird flew up, they all flew up. When one bird came down, they all came down. When it was time to look for food, they all looked for food. Around and around, left and right they flew — and no one knew who was leading and who was following.
Kevin Beers - Working with His Portals (An Owner’s Guide)
INTRODUCTION I've met several Beers owners now that didn’t know how to access his Portals - or in some cases that they existed in the first place. I thought it would be instructive to outline step-by-step instructions on how to work with them and then share my personal experience of traveling through the Manana Island portal.