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fable of the poor man who raised the sun

Posted on April 6, 2018 by Michael Patton

The rising of the sun depended upon the pharaoh. Or so the people believed… …because every morning just before dawn, Pharaoh went to the riverbank…opened his arms to the horizon…recited a prayer to summon the sun… …and—lo and behold!—the sun … Continue reading →

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the green shirt ritual

Posted on March 9, 2015 by Michael Patton

Last Saturday, I put on the green T-shirt… …as a way of signaling the beginning of Spring… …as a way of telling myself: “Time to emerge from Winter’s cave.  Time to shake off the dust.  I must change with the … Continue reading →

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the shrubbery of bliss

Posted on October 10, 2013 by Michael Patton

  “All the things that I did, you need to understand…I did it for me…I was alive.” Those lines, from the finale of the TV series Breaking Bad, brought to mind a statement made by mythologist Joseph Campbell, years ago: … Continue reading →

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not enough to break me out

Posted on October 3, 2013 by Michael Patton

“Pain.” Sometimes, I create what I call a “one-word synopsis” of a book, a movie, or a TV show… And my one-word description for the TV series Breaking Bad is: “Pain”. Every single character on that show was in pain*. … Continue reading →

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