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Warp and Weft
Movers could have unfurled the enormous Persian rug in one of two ways. Once spread out, it fills more square feet than did our entire first apartment as newlywed grad students. A symmetrical design falls away in layers from a central … Continue reading
Posted in Love and Loss
Tagged asymmetry, Exeter, family, ficus plant, home, imperfection, memory, Mughal carpet, New Hampshire, Portsmouth, symmetry, things we carry, Uttar Pradesh, warp and weft
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God’s Golden Eyes
March 22, 2018 Dear Jim, I was awake long before you would have hoped for me. It snowed yet again, though a far less fearsome Nor’easter than this month’s past three. This morning I was in one of … Continue reading
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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