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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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Fragmentary Blue (Rambles in the Rainbow Garden: Part 4)
“Why is there so much fragmentary blue?!” My visitor was surveying 1000 puzzle pieces, in only slightly varying shades of blue, spilled out on the dining room table–which is very rarely used for food. He promptly summoned a burst of … Continue reading
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Tagged "Fragmentary Blue", blue, color, midnight, Rambles in the Rainbow Garden: Part 4, Robert Frost
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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).
