Second Thoughts
Gael MacLeanWelcome to Second Thoughts—where we circle back to what we thought we understood. Climate, culture, the whole catastrophe. Sometimes with data, sometimes with jokes, always with the suspicion that the obvious take missed something.
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A Failure of Imagination
I live in a tinderbox. ©Gael MacLean
His name was Isaac. I have not said it aloud in years.
He was working for me on a film project, and he was distant from everyone. Present in the room but not quite in it, the way some people are when t...
Ding Dong, It’s Art Bell
I should confess something before we go any further: I listened to Art Bell.
Not casually. Not as anthropological fieldwork. I listened because it was genuinely fascinating — the calls from long-haul truckers who’d seen lights over the int...
We Are But Small Trees
Refugee Camp -Thai-Burma Border - ©Gael MacLean
The Farmer
He was trying to get comfortable. That’s what I remember first—not the story, not the camp, not the heat or the smell of cook-fires and diesel. The way he kept shifting his wei...
The Gaze
Diane Arbus (1923 - 1971) - Photographer: Tod Papageorge - Date: 1967
The Forms
There are seven hundred and thirty-eight of them this year. Bills. Introduced across forty-two states and the federal government, each one a small machine...
The Frequency
The Ask
My neighbor’s car had died again. Could I drive her to church? Twenty miles through the canyon, along the river, the same river that runs through every story I’ve told from this valley. The one that catches the light and throws...
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