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Aretha’s daddy

One of these days, the cloud will be lifted . . .

—Rev. C. L. Franklin

Rev. C. L. Franklin, live, Detroit

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lagniappe

reading table

The sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that ships are sometimes wrecked.

—Simone Weil (1909-1943), “The Love of God and Affliction” (translated from French by Richard Rees)

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random sights

yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.

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the beat goes on

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