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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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A Beat With No Melody
“…love’s not the song, but after— like the mute, remembered chorus of the rain that stains the walk long after falling, or the lifeless stalk still hoisting its head of grain.” Winter haltingly segues into spring, the … Continue reading
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Tagged "Hurricane", "Not the Song, "The World Was Wide Enough", "To a Skylark", "Yorktown (The World Turned Upside Down)", Alexander Hamilton, but After", chorus, Christiansted hurricane, cross-over spaces, grief, Lin-Manuel Miranda, melody, memory, Nicholson Friedman, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ron Chernow, spring solstice, vernal equinox, widowhood
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Make Me a Mondrian: Corrupted at Last
Picture corrupted. 23,229 times over. It’s not always easy to identify the dog that did not bark–or, in this case, which digital pictures among a cast of tens of thousands have disappeared and cannot be put together again. I realized … Continue reading
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Tagged Andy Warhol, computer ineptitude, corrupted files, hard drive, Mark Rothko, memory, Piet Mondrian, song bird, unintentional art
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Incomplete: The Absent Hour
Today is missing an hour. We’ve sprung ahead. With my phone’s camera I captured sunrise on this deficient day. It featured an almost fully saturated sky, with just a flickering sliver of pure white light at the far left. My … Continue reading
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Tagged camera equipment, grief, John Hiatt's "The Missing Pieces", memory, misstep, photography, postaday. incomplete, Psalm 51:6
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