and now Miguel 

@andnowmiguel
I sit zazen, write rap lyrics, and compose Hip-Hop music. I read. I raise my son. I encourage my wife. We love, travel, and grow. Visit: andnowmiguel.com
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Muskie Fish Fry (Audio Lyric Poem)
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A Black Cab Driver Made Me Cry That Day

It’s been almost a year since this happened, but I still think about it.

My sweet little boy, 5 at the time, had been in the hospital—Great Ormond Street Hospital—for two weeks. And for days, he had one simple request:

“Mama, can we go to the shop and get chocolate?”

Finally, after what felt like forever, his doctors gave us the go-ahead. We could step outside. Just for a little while.

Hand in mine, still with his cannula in place and his NG tube taped to his …

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In the late '80s, Sony introduced write-once optical discs (WORM) and rewritable magneto-optical discs (MO) for data storage and archival recording. This tech would eventually lay the groundwork for MiniDisc technology.

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new story! And congrats on the post fam.

My first official sci-fi thriller short story written for Substack. Would love feedback, suggestions, and people to provide comments. Thank you all!

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Tennoji Buddhist Temple in Tokyo, Japan.

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The Banda Sea. Indonesia, 2015.

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'The Ghost of Kohada Koheiji' from the series 'One Hundred Ghost Stories' - Katsushika Hokusai, 1832.

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What’s on the easel today is an old soprano saxophone I’ve had for about 30+ years. This is going to be a fun painting!!

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I grew up with CD’s, so I’ll hear a song and know what song is supposed to play next. I grew up with CD’s, so I know what it’s like to have a CD loop all night until it’s time to get ready for school- I grew up with CD’s, I know what it’s like being gifted a poster just by opening the leaflet—- I grew up with CD’s, so I know what it’s like to have to use my hot breath to clean the streaks on my fav album— I grew up with CD’s, so I know what it’s like to skip to Track 7, I know what it’s like to…

I’m a psychonaut — “Psychonautics (from the en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki… ψυχήpsychē 'soul, spirit, mind' and ναύτης naútēs'sailor, navigator')en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki…refers both to a methodology for describing and explaining the subjective effects of en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki…, including those induced by en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki… or en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki…

Some older stuff for Monday.