Meditations in an Emergency

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"Bouquets of Wild Comets"

"Bouquets of Wild Comets"

The wonder of lists

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“Tomorrow Is Another Day” (2016), Mark Bradford

Sick in bed last week, I finally read Mountains Beyond Mountains, Tracy Kidder’s account of Paul Farmer’s work in global public health, specifically Haiti—it is a fast-paced, wonderful book—and I discovered with pleasure that Farmer, like me, not only fastidiously keeps daily lists of to-do items, with litt…

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