Monthly Archives: May 2021

THE WRITING OF HISTORY by Peter Nolan Smith

May 11, 2021 – 11:58 am

The dead never come back to life and I know that since I’ve almost died on several occasions from motorcycle accidents, beatings, and chemical misjudgments, although none of these near-fatal incidents must not have been too serious, because my soul was never enveloped by the tunnel of light. When I returned to the USA from […]

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Memories Of Palestine

May 11, 2021 – 11:31 am

Several years ago I was getting gold chains on 47th Street to show a customer at the Plaza Hotel store opened by Richie Boy. Business was slow at the exchange and the older gold dealer asked with a Levantine accent, “Where are you from?” “Boston.” No one in the Diamond District had ever asked my […]

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FREE THE WORLD

May 11, 2021 – 2:49 am

In 2011 gold soared to record prices and a steady flow of customers entered our diamond exchange on West 47th Street to sell their precious jewelry and family heirlooms. They were of all ages, nationalities, and races. Most of them were honest, but buying stolen merchandise or swag was a crime. Richie Boy, his father […]

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Lijiang 1995

May 8, 2021 – 1:58 am

In the summer of 1995 my baby brother, Michael Charles Smith, passed from this world and I voyaged around the world to pray at the holiest temples and shrines in Asia. I stayed briefly in LA, Honolulu, Bangkok, and Chiang Mai. In September I flew north to Kumming and after a few days in that […]

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Deep Fried Brood X Cicadas

May 7, 2021 – 3:48 pm

Hordes of Brood X cicadas havve lain dormant underground since 2004 and are predicted to emerge from their seven year slumber in the next few weeks across fifteen states in the Northeast. Billions if not trillions of the larvae are now burrowing up from the earth. Upon emerging the larvae will shed their skins to […]

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