yesterday
Snowy fields, bare trees, big sky: as my son Luke, now twenty-two, drives us from a family gathering in Nebraska to his place in Kansas City, these are some of the sounds that fill the car.
Pusha T, “40 Acres” (feat. The Dream), 2013
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J. Cole, “Killers,” 2011
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Lil Wayne, “I Miss My Dawgs,” 2011
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taking a break
Back in a while.
If you’d been in the back seat the other night, as my son Luke was zooming down the Kennedy Expressway—he was taking me home before heading back to school in Bloomington—here’s one of the things you would’ve heard jumping out of the radio.
J. Cole, “Power Trip” (feat. Miguel), 2013
Listen to dreams by j cole—text message from my 18-year-old son Luke
J. Cole (featuring Brandon Hines), “Dreams” (2009)
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commercial for next week’s made-for-TV movie
J.’s got a plan to get the girl of his dreams.
And it just might work—if it doesn’t land him in the electric chair.
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lagniappe
reading table
You can’t tell everyone the truth all the time, and you certainly can’t tell anyone the whole truth, ever, because it would take too long.—Lydia Davis, “Our Trip” (Samuel Johnson Is Indignant)
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