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The Light You Do Not See
At 4:30 a.m. the waterfront view is fully saturated one day and colorless mist the next. The best hints I gather from my starting vantage point a few blocks away lie in the light: usually a patch of shimmering silvery-slate … Continue reading
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Tagged commencement, family, Forrest Gump's box of chocolates, grief, John Hiatt, Pittsburgh, widowhood
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Like a Burning Spear
It’s about 1:30 a.m. and I’m thirteen hours into a ten-hour trip in the dog days of August. I’m alone in the baby blue mom van, lost off a highway, pulled over in a dingy industrial park somewhere in Connecticut–either … Continue reading
The Quiet Conjurer
Signs from above need not bring you to your knees. Nor do the bright copper departed always tap at your shoulder, or tickle your heel. Messages and messengers that appear in forms our five senses perceive–a touch, a bird’s rustle, … Continue reading
Roots and Wings
“Roots and wings.” It was shorthand for the process of growing up and heading out into the world in Maira Kalman’s “Max Makes a Million,” and a nod to the notion that parents provide for their children a foundation to … Continue reading
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Tagged "A Series of Unfortunate Events", "Before I Go", "Crossing Muddy Waters", John Hiatt, Lemony Snicket, loss, Maira Kalman, Mary Oliver's "In Blackwater Woods", Max Makes a Million, Max Stravinsky, New York City, parenting, Rainer Maria Rilke, Sonnets to Orpheus, triple-decker sandwich city, Walt Whitman's "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking"
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