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Beveled Blue
My husband’s out-of-the-blue diagnosis was confirmed seven years ago. It was a suffocatingly hot morning, the last Monday in June. For weeks beforehand I had a profound and decreasingly punctuated sense of dread. I was at the wheel of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Atul Gawande's "Complications", bad news, blue, Grandma's on the Roof, grief, intuition, memory, Ode to Horace, ring, sapphire
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Green: Of Monsters and Men
When I was in first grade, we were given mimeographed sheets (look it up, kids) to color. They had rows of small images, like comic strips, filled with simple outlines–a house, grass, an improbable spiky sun. Below the images were … Continue reading
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Tagged blue, Crayola box with built-in sharpener, fabric, green, grief, Jim, outdoors, tagaday, Weekly Photo Challenge
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Hydrangea
“There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
–Albert Einstein, quoted in Wisdom (London, 2002).
