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Sing a song: partial journal entry: 12/20/07

Posted in family, life, tagged , on June 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Today I realized it’s finally over––that long, protracted period of grief I’ve been in. For a long time now, I haven’t worn black or scratched my face or wailed like women seeing their dead––but the grief was there––bearable, stiff upper lip,  no need to bother the neighbors. Like a scar one learns to ignore or [...]

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Amusements

Posted in family, life, tagged , on June 22, 2008 | 3 Comments »

Discovered recently under the dining room buffet:
3 play mice
1 fluff ball with rattle
2 pens
1 pencil
1 small shell
1 raisin

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I miss her vanity

Posted in family, life, love, tagged , , , on June 16, 2008 | 2 Comments »

We’ve come to see the movie Sex and the City. She is enjoying it. I am, too. She had a hard time, like she always does, climbing the movie theater stairs. Too dark, and she’s lost her sense of depth perception, so that every step is a slow, careful, am I falling over [...]

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Better angels

Posted in life, tagged , , , on June 6, 2008 | 2 Comments »

This has been a lump in the throat week, first with Barack Obama winning the nomination and then with the remembrances of Robert Kennedy. Obama moves me when he speaks. I haven’t heard someone with his eloquence since John F. Kennedy. I can still remember Kennedy’s trip to Berlin and his famous I am a [...]

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