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Quantum

Posted on November 23, 2022 by Eugene Jones Baldwin

Quantum The air is sharp. The sun is cloud-cloaked, light escaping its flimsy white negligee, and tufted titmice glow grey-orange and blue jays are ornamental. The afternoon is soft the breeze is coldsoft, and acorn caps rise sideways and roll … Continue reading →

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Sunday in the Diner with Orville on the Mississippi river

Posted on November 14, 2022 by Eugene Jones Baldwin

Sunday in the Diner with Orville on the Mississippi River A guy walks into Joe K.’s diner for Sunday lunch and a voice calls out, “Join us!” Normally the guy sits at the counter, but the speaker is none other … Continue reading →

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True Colors

Posted on November 12, 2022 by Eugene Jones Baldwin

True Colors I spent part of this day with a physician specialist. He told me I need a delicate eye surgery; he is arranging for me to meet “the top doctor in the country [in the field].” My doc scanned … Continue reading →

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Jim Crow’s Grandkids

Posted on November 1, 2022 by Eugene Jones Baldwin

Jim Crow’s Grandkids The right wing posits affirmative action as a Communist plot, subtext the privileges Whitey and his/her children get . . . constantly. The most egregious example of affirmative action goes all the way back to the end … Continue reading →

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Bikers

Posted on July 31, 2022 by Eugene Jones Baldwin

Bikers In 1897, twenty Black U.S. cavalrymen, dubbed “buffalo soldiers” by Native American tribes in the West, mounted their bicycles—yes, bicycles (no gears)—and rode nineteen hundred miles to St. Louis, where their arrival in Forest Park was roundly cheered. The … Continue reading →

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The Brave

Posted on July 23, 2022 by Eugene Jones Baldwin

The Brave At the top of LaVista hill, Mulligan the dog (sixty pounds of part Pitbull, part Shepherd, full handsome) pulling his leash, was tugging his mistress along a row of newly planted trees. He stopped at each tree, raised … Continue reading →

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Rapture

Posted on July 18, 2022 by Eugene Jones Baldwin

Rapture  Black lives do not matter, which explains why its opposite has become a rallying cry. All lives matter, obvious as that statement may be is not pertinent to what’s going on in this rapidly insane country of ours. To … Continue reading →

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Fakely I’m Amazed

Posted on July 10, 2022 by Eugene Jones Baldwin

Fakely I’m Amazed A few years ago, a friend of mine’s new, pushy wife came with him to a summer camp where he and I worked. She happened to be walking on the road when a newspaper reporter, coming to … Continue reading →

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Black Boys

Posted on July 6, 2022 by Eugene Jones Baldwin

Black Boys I was artist-in-residence at Washington Irving School for over a decade. At a school assembly circa 1990, my friend Roy Chappell, one of the first Tuskegee Airmen in history, sat on the stage and talked to my kids. … Continue reading →

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Shirley You Jest

Posted on July 6, 2022 by Eugene Jones Baldwin

Shirley You Jest I recall the thrill when I first read Shirley Jackson’s masterful 1948 story “The Lottery,” and the shock (I was a kid) of the story’s end. I’ve reread it several times and I’ve come to appreciate the … Continue reading →

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