Coffee With Clark: American flag

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Wednesday, July 4, 2012

Monday, May 28, 2012

Stars and Stripes, Alaska

From the fantail of the M/V Malaspina, Alaska marine Ferry, at Skagway

Sunday, May 27, 2012

For Memorial Day, the "real" American flag--48 stars, count 'em--that I grew up with, till we let the territories in. This flew every day that my son Vance was in Iraq a few years ago. Saludos, veterans!

Meditation

Just out the window, black silhouettes of trees remind me of those halcyon days with you, when we climbed out of the cellar toward enlightenment. Now, at a glance, the wild birds swing into view, obscuring the real world of young men dying to get home, and the snow that falls on our brains stays solid - never melting into springtime. On the ferry, we sit and compare notes as to whom in life has suffered the most; men, women, boys, or girls? Suddenly, in a revelation, you say it is the Buddha over on Main, who sits on his plywood altar, surrounded by plastic flowers, subjected to all the passersby, who have never had a Zen thought of their own… --K. Lawson Gilbert

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Wednesday, July 4, 2012

Our flag

Monday, May 28, 2012

Stars and Stripes, Alaska

Sunday, May 27, 2012

The "real" flag