Beginning a new calendar year in mindfulness and silence is my preferred method of ringing in the ...
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Starting in Silence
01 Jan, 2025
Sparse. Stark. Striking. The vast expanse of winter. The landscape of a new calendar year. Beauty. Benevolence. Brutality. Grasshead gone to fluffy seed ...
2024: The Year in Review – Part Two
31 Dec, 2024
We continue on the high summer note on which we left off from the first half of ...
Closing the chapter on what was 2024 brings an uneasy sense of relief and trepidatious pleasure. Every ...
About Alan Ilagan
Alan Bennett Ilagan is a blogger who resides in upstate New York. A graduate of Brandeis University, Ilagan has been published in Instinct, xy magazine, Windy City Times, Q Northeast, Metroland, commUNITY, and ‘The Project for a New Mythology.’ He has been profiled in Unzipped, Genre, Diversity Rules! Magazine, and Upstate Magazine. From 2008 to 2012 he served as manager of the Romaine Brooks Gallery at the Pride Center of the Capital Region. He and his husband Andy were married in 2010 and remain happily unburdened by children. His website has been up since 2003, making it one of the longest running personal blogs.