January 2010 Surviving Matters “But in the field the man finds the girl who is engaged, and the man forces her and lies with her, then only the man who lies with her shall die. But you shall do nothing to the girl; there is no sin in the girl worthy of death. For...
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April 2009 Sausalito Sunsets Not soon, as late as the approach of my ninetieth year, I felt a door opening in me and I entered the clarity of early morning. One after another my former lives were departing, like ships, together with their sorrow. And the countries, cities, gardens, the bays of seas...
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March 2009 Camille and Jean The Immaculately Dressed Bingo Buddies This ain’t a song for the broken-hearted. No silent prayer for the faith-departed. I ain’t gonna be just a face in the crowd. You’re gonna hear my voice, when I shout it out loud. It’s my life. It’s now or never. I ain’t...
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December 2008 Family The family. We were a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another’s desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms, inflicting pain and kissing to heal it in the same instant, loving, laughing, defending, and trying to figure out...
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April 2008 Sweetie Okay – What About Boy? You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life. ~ Sir Winston Churchill ~ The Democratic National Party wrote Kate last week asking for money. I am certain they wrote her, in response to my recent purchase, in her name,...
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Brown Paper Packages Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens Bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens Brown paper packages tied up with strings These are a few of my favorite things . . . Oscar Hammerstein II One of our most beloved Christmas traditions is to watch The Sound of Music. It...
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Dinner with Nour “Yes’m old friends is always best, ‘less you can catch a new one that’s fit to make an old one out of.” ~ Sarah Orne Jewett ~ Tonight we had a dinner party – this is not news, it is what we do. After the party we walked our dog,...
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