#brian doyle

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So much held in a heart in a lifetime. So much held in a heart in a day, an hour, a moment. We are utterly open with no one, in the end -- not mother and father, not wife or husband, not lover, not child, not friend. We open windows to each but we live alone in the house of the heart. Perhaps we must. Perhaps we could not bear to be so naked, for fear of a constantly harrowed heart. When young we think there will come one person who will savor and sustain us always; when we are older we know this is the dream of a child, that all hearts finally are bruised and scarred, scored and torn, repaired by time and will, patched by force of character, yet fragile and rickety forevermore, no matter how ferocious the defense and how many bricks you bring to the wall. You can brick up your heart as stout and tight and hard and cold and impregnable as you possibly can and down it comes in an instant, felled by a woman's second glance, a child's apple breath, the shatter of glass in the road, the words 'I have something to tell you,' a cat with a broken spine dragging itself into the forest to die, the brush of your mother's papery ancient hand in a thicket of your hair, the memory of your father's voice early in the morning echoing from the kitchen where he is making pancakes for his children.

Brian Doyle, One Long River of Song: Notes on Wonder

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Bad movie I have I was a Teenage Zombie 1987

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Light. Laughter. Grace.

No, the title of this post isn’t some sort of weird stage direction from Will & Grace. It’s sage advice from a deep thinker and masterful storyteller. “shards of light and laughter and grace…” Because our crystal ball is broken. Our little window can shut without warning. Brian Doyle was — check that, IS — an amazing writer. His book One Long River of Song is a collection of his essays. I’ve…

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The Best Poem Ever

What if, says a small child to me this afternoon, We made a poem without using any words at all? Wouldn’t that be cool? You could use long twigs, And feathers, or spider strands, and arrange them So that people imagine what words could be there. Wouldn’t that be cool? So there’s a different poem For each reader. That would be the best poem ever. The poem wouldn’t be on the page, right? It would Be in the air, sort of. It would be between the twigs And the person’s eyes, or behind the person’s eyes, After the person saw whatever poem he or she saw. Maybe there are a lot of poems that you can’t write Down. Couldn’t that be? But they’re still there even If no one can write them down, right? Poems in Books are only a little bit of all the poems there are. Those are only the poems someone found words for.

Brian Doyle

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Award-winning Writer, Essayist, and Editor Brian Doyle

"Stories are prayers.." Brian Doyle :)

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You cannot control anything. You cannot order or command everything. You cannot fix and repair everything. You cannot protect your children from pain and loss and tragedy and illness. You cannot be sure that you will always be married, let alone happily married. You cannot be sure you will always be employed, or healthy, or relatively sane. All you can do is face the world with quiet grace and hope you make a sliver of difference.

- Brian Doyle

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Report: Paramount Sold to Live Nation

The Paramount has been sold to Live Nation, according to the Long-Islander newspaper. The downtown entertainment hub, owned by Dominick Catoggio, Jim Condron, Brian Doyle, and Stephen Ubertini. took over the former IMAC space on New York Avenue 13 years ago and has hosted thousands of shows since then, featuring top-ranked acts such as Billy Joel, comedian Kevin James, Ed Sheeran and many…

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Former Santa Clara City Attorney Brian Doyle has filed a wrongful termination lawsuit, claiming he was fired for being a whistleblower. The city council dismissed him in March 2021. As an at-will employee, Doyle could be dismissed at any time for any or no reason. Read more at svvoice.com.

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MICHELLE BRIAN TOBY BACK ON JET LAG

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Lineless style go brrrrr

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So, it's probably gonna be Tag 4, it's probably gonna be played in teams (Sam/Toby, Adam/Michelle, Ben/Brian, based on the bandanas), and it's probably gonna be the same map as Season 1 and 2.

But do we think they're cutting the game days short for the guests? Down to twelve hours from their usual fourteen during tag? Do we think they are extending the game play? Four or five days instead of just three? Because it's twice as many people?

Do they know that they are about to hit the first heatwave in Europe this year, strikes on the Netherlands's train network, AND about a dozen pride events in towns and cities all over Central Europe?

I am---