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Oct.12.2011
Our culture has a persistent, even nagging way of setting "norms" and related expectations for our behavior. Some of these evolve from centuries of our collective experience and become aphorisms of folk wisdom and so-called common sense. The contrasting counsel in "He who hesitates is...
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Oct.04.2011
October 4
Have Faith
Strange and wonderful tragedy takes you away from me and I don’t know how it is that you return, but you do and I thank G-d, but I’m not sure it was G-d’s idea that you went away or that you came back, though, I am sure, He...
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Sep.25.2011
September 25
No Dialing Tonight.
When it is late at night and I can’t sleep I wander and putter and plan my dreams. I hold out hopes and wash their faces; pray for rain and clean all traces. Thunderstorms rumble and lightning strikes; I...
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Sep.14.2011
This is September 4th, 2011.
That means it is three years to the day that Matthew Avery Solomon, father of Jayvon with Hazel and father of Makai with Hakiti, was shot in the head and back at point blank range by two unseen, masked murderers, leaving him dead on the sidewalk. His companion,...
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Sep.12.2011
Recently, it was National Sister Week, and naturally that got me thinking about Tessa and Claudine, my novel about two sisters. Tessa, the youngest sister, tells the story. I grew up with one sibling, an older sister so I guess you can figure out where some of my...
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Sep.02.2011
Post Mortem...
You say we can keep our love alive Babe - all I know is what I see - The couples cling and claw And drown in love's debris. ~ Carly Simon
I heard that song this morning on the way to work. I've listened to it for years, but today the words resonated in my skull. It makes me think...
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Sep.01.2011
I am desperately grasping onto the halo of a vacation that took us to two of Europe’s most iconic cities: Florence and Paris. After having blogged every day in the month of July, I took the month of August off from writing and spent time observing, experiencing, and reading. We traveled with...
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Aug.11.2011
August 11
T before S
When happiness is hard work I have to learn to look for the lie. There must be a lie for happiness flows unrestrained when not dammed. What was built too far up river for me to see, dries out my once liquid existence; leaving me to...
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Aug.07.2011
August 7
I Beg
The embarrassment of need is a haunting guest who will not leave. I turn in a tight circle trying to find a way to detach this wart and move gracefully from the site of devastation, but it looms large and overshadows today’s possibilities and...
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Aug.03.2011
Today would have been the birthday of a sweet, old friend of mine - a lovely man who, in my mind's eye, will always be a long-haired, beautiful 19 year old hippie boy tinkering with his VW Bug. I say "would have" because, a couple of years ago, on Father's Day, K decided that the weight of the...
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