baker – Kevin Ray Archer

Crafting Non-attachment

Published May 22, 2013 by Kevin

The restaurant business is largely about ego. As a venue or chef builds an identity, egos become inordinately inflated. The maintenance of an ego requires…

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Edible Craft

Published May 1, 2013 by Kevin

My donning of the bread-baker’s apron was not just a clever escape from an increasingly unethical predicament. More than that, it was a return to…

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Kobayashi Maru on Wry

Published April 9, 2013 by Kevin

I want to pick up the thought I left at the end of the previous entry. The idea that I appeared as my own ‘deus…

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Deus ex machina

Published March 29, 2013 by Kevin

There are these moments of realization. Some come swiftly: Sitting in your hermitage above Mendocino, staring at the Pacific arc, vision folds in upon itself…

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Effecting a Coup

Published March 22, 2013 by Kevin

In the past few weeks, I effected—and was affected by—a coup d’etat. I was both the usurper and the usurped. I survived victoriously. I want…

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Small Faces, a baker, and your dinner…

Published October 15, 2010 by Kevin

This entry first appeared at Crazy Sexy Life, Oct. 15, 2010 (http://crazysexylife.com/2010/how-love-leads-to-purpose) In an increasingly-obscure song by the Small Faces, circa 1968, a man follows…

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Crafting Non-attachment

Edible Craft

Kobayashi Maru on Wry

Deus ex machina

Effecting a Coup

Small Faces, a baker, and your dinner…