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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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Be Mindful
Sometimes you know exactly what’s coming and sometimes, as Edward Gorey more poetically put it, you have no idea that tomorrow it will be raining. Sometimes “It’s better not to know.”: Either Jupiter says This coming winter is not After … Continue reading
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Tagged death, Jupiter, Ode to Horace, pancreatic cancer, Thanksgiving
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Leader of the Flock
I know how some people feel about those who relate their dreams. I’m going to tell you about them anyway. Last night my dream self encountered one of those bizarre amalgams of ordinary nagging subconscious fears–of being late, of having … Continue reading
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Tagged birds, diagnosis, dreams, flock, Jim, Mumford & Sons, Ode to Horace, Our Town, pancreatic cancer, Thornton Wilder
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