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About meI publish under both my real name, John Griswold, and the pen name Oronte Churm. As Churm I write a column for McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, a creative nonfiction superblog at Inside Higher Ed, and other things around the Net.
I was born in Saigon, Vietnam—on Ho Chi Minh’s birthday—but grew up in Southern Illinois, which provided the setting for my novel, A Democracy of Ghosts. I’ve worked as a snake-wrangler at a state park, Army frogman, city bus driver, at-risk youth leader, manager of an ad agency, corporate writer, and freelancer. Since 2000 I’ve taught creative writing, literature, and rhetoric at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
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by Helen Lowrie Marshall
"Dare to be different; life is so full
Of people who follow the same push-and-pull,
Poor, plodding people who, other than name,
Try to pretend they’re exactly the same.
God made us different; there never will be
A replica soul made of you or me.
The charm—the glory of all creation
rests on this very deviation.
Your charm—your own glory, too,
Lies in being uniquely you—
Lies in being true to your best,
That part of you different from all the rest."
posted by theoldman at 8:43 am (EST) on Mar 29, 2009