Prairie Uprising Essays

Friday, October 3, 2025

On the St. Louis Blues

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  I got the St. Louis blues, as blue as I can be / I got the St. Louis blues, as blue as I can be / That man’s got a heart like a rock cast ...
Thursday, August 14, 2025

On a high-pitched Whine

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  Many things that we encounter are mysterious.  There are phenomena that seem inexplicable.  The world is strangely self-evident, but what ...
Wednesday, June 18, 2025

On a Tour of Chadron, Nebraska

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  On a Tour of Chadron, Nebraska With my wife and a traveling companion, I was on a bus-tour of the garden spots in the Nebraska panhandle. ...
Friday, May 23, 2025

On a New Kind of Anxiety

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 On a New Kind of Anxiety As technology advances, new forms of anxiety haunt my dreams.  For the first half of my life, I lived quite succes...
Tuesday, May 20, 2025

Henry Miller and Hieronymus Bosch (with an excursus on Donald Trump's second administration)

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  Henry Miller published Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch in 1957.  The book is unclassifiable, a collection of sketches about li...
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