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After 3 sessions this is finally done, and it’s f*in awesome. Henry, you are an amazing artist! Better photos to come after this heals up #tattoo #whale #squid https://www.instagram.com/p/BonQKJJlpve/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1xsvyuw0ij8y9
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San Mateo October 2018 https://www.instagram.com/p/BoiF5I0liNZ/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=rk8oqhx390z1
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blossom in the first rays of the sun https://www.instagram.com/p/BnxiGwNlY2F/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=18uqxz5jc0vkt
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#selfie #shadow in the heart of a tree at sunrise today https://www.instagram.com/p/BnjV01gFXhi/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=4uc6h8zt2rdf
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On today’s run (at Sawyer Camp Trail) https://www.instagram.com/p/BnNKTN-Frjl/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=x8anym32mrtt
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Explaining Facebook to the teenager

The 17 y.o. came to me this morning full of outrage about something one of my friends had posted on Facebook. Here’s what I told her: That outrage you’re feeling? That’s what Facebook is designed to produce. What my friend posted was just her venting. People do that, among friends, after bad experie
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Occult America (book notes)

I was under the weather the entire first week of July, so I spent July 4 in bed, reading this book by Mitch Horowitz. Published in 2009, Occult America is an entertaining survey of a variety of “occult” religious trends that blossomed over three centuries of American history. Horowitz starts his acc
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Marathon swimming

According to the Marathon Swimmers Federation, the minimum distance to qualify a swim as a “marathon swim” is 10 kilometers. By that definition, I guess I’m now a marathon swimmer. Yesterday I joined about 20 others in a 10km (6.2 mile) swim from the Capitola pier to the Santa Cruz pier, by way of a
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Back in the water.

It’s Spring, since yesterday, and I’m swimming again. The familiar soreness of the arm and shoulder muscles, the cup of the middle ear sometimes retaining water until midmorning, the occasional feelings of wavelike or boatlike “floating” when I’m at my desk, working, hours after emerging from the wa
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