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Paul Bjerk

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Joined January 2014
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Meditation on Ken Bjerk for his friends in Taos paulbjerk.wordpress.com/2023…
Meditation on Ken Bjerk for his friends in Taos

Meditation on Ken Bjerk for his friends in Taos

Growing up, everywhere we went we were surrounded by amiable adults, friends of our parents. Good natured people who took time to gather and share in conversation, drinks, and good food. They were …

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The Third Servant paulbjerk.wordpress.com/2023…
The Third Servant

The Third Servant

It is certainly too late to begin now with all the passions and anger left behind or buried, yet I can’t reinvest in a productive life without a reckoning. For 30 years I’ve just been h…

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A family visit to Kampala Part I paulbjerk.wordpress.com/2022…
A family visit to Kampala Part I

A family visit to Kampala Part I

This was just from a letter to family about the first week of our trip to my wife’s home in Kampala. This is a photo of the kids sorting coffee beans grown in the garden of their grandfather&…

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"Research has shown that a surge in cryptomining is also significantly raising energy costs for local residents and small businesses, and has added to the strain on the power grid in states like Texas, the letter noted." via @NYTimes nytimes.com/2022/07/15/clima…
Cryptomining Capacity in U.S. Rivals Energy Use of Houston, Findings Show (Published 2022)

Cryptomining Capacity in U.S. Rivals Energy Use of Houston, Findings Show (Published 2022)

The findings, by a congressional investigation, highlight how the surge in activity has caused consumers’ electrical bills to rise and makes it harder to fight global warming.

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Opinion | Gerrymander, U.S.A. (Published 2022)

Opinion | Gerrymander, U.S.A. (Published 2022)

The way we designed our system of political representation incentivizes the worst and most extreme elements of our politics.

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The Alito Opinion and the Question of When Life Begins paulbjerk.wordpress.com/2022…
A Sign for the Times paulbjerk.wordpress.com/2022…
A Sign for the Times

A Sign for the Times

It is late, I’m momentarily thinking that if I am to write beyond my professional duties, I will have to become an artistic obsessive and write when inspiration strikes, knowing full well that I ca…

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The Glittering Girl in Gold paulbjerk.wordpress.com/2021…
The Glittering Girl in Gold

The Glittering Girl in Gold

I”m only now sitting down to write my hot take on the hope-filled and flawless inauguration. It went off without a hitch, and of course the highlight was the swirling glittering alchemy by th…

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Emotional Deserts: Remembering My Friend Will a Year Later paulbjerk.wordpress.com/2020…
Emotional Deserts: Remembering My Friend Will a Year Later

Emotional Deserts: Remembering My Friend Will a Year Later

Remembering My Friend Will, one year since an irresponsible truck driver rear-ended his car killing him and his wife, as these memories now ensconce themselves amidst emotional detritus scattered a…

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Cancelling Ourselves paulbjerk.wordpress.com/2020…
Cancelling Ourselves

Cancelling Ourselves

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, in front of my building, 1994 When I lived in New York, a student at NYU, I lived for several years in Brooklyn. I went to a church in Alphabet City, on the far side of To…

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Bend the Knee paulbjerk.wordpress.com/2020…
Bend the Knee

Bend the Knee

Get behind me Satan! Were it not for its direct Biblical origin this line would otherwise belong somewhere deep in the American songbook, somewhere amidst gospel, the blues, and the deepest Appalac…

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Who sinned? This man, or his parents? paulbjerk.wordpress.com/2020…
Who sinned? This man, or his parents?

Who sinned? This man, or his parents?

Sin and Complicity His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” I went a protest this week (now some weeks ago, as I finally post this)…

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Like a Whisper paulbjerk.wordpress.com/2020…
Like a Whisper

Like a Whisper

Friday (afternoon) is my (personal) writing day. We’ll see how long this lasts. I do need—psychologically, politically, analytically, ideologically— to write a memoir, and need to someday start. Bu…

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Rioting in our Temples paulbjerk.wordpress.com/2020…
Rioting in our Temples

Rioting in our Temples

Preface to a Memoir This is an essay intended to be about the social circumstances surrounding the murder of George Floyd, but it exists amidst my long-standing intention to write a memoir entitled…

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#Hedera #Hashgraph's Consensus Service could be the much needed plug-in to #HyperLedgerFabric that would offer an efficient & secure ordering system. Combined, they offer a key service for both interbank transfers and #CBDC (Central Bank Digital Currency). paulbjerk.wordpress.com/2020…
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Morality and Mortality in a Pandemic Spring: A Confession paulbjerk.wordpress.com/2020…
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Remembering my friendship with Will Craig paulbjerk.wordpress.com/2019…
Remembering my high school friendship with Will Craig

Remembering my high school friendship with Will Craig

What is striking in the photos of Will on Facebook in the last few years is the joyful glint in his eye, with just a hint of mischievousness, a healthy dose of ego, and a large dose of humble warmt…

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Pop culture in review: “Jungle Fever,” “Stranger Things,” and “Once Upon a Tim e…In Hollywood” paulbjerk.wordpress.com/2019…
Pop culture in review: “Jungle Fever,” “Stranger Things,” and “Once Upon a Tim e…In Hollywood”

Pop culture in review: “Jungle Fever,” “Stranger Things,” and “Once Upon a Tim e…In Hollywood”

This is just for fun, reflecting on some movies and TV shows I’ve watched lately. I’ll start with Spike Lee’s “Jungle Fever” which is a much more subtle movie than I remember. But it has very littl…

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Do You Think I Came to Bring Peace on Earth? paulbjerk.wordpress.com/2019…
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Do you think I came to bring peace on earth? paulbjerk.wordpress.com/2019…
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