remembrance | remembrance
May.31.2010
The entire weather map of Maine is colored gray today due to smoke from the Quebec fires. It is fitting for this day, that we should stay indoors and think long hard thoughts and leave the parties for another time.
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Apr.11.2010
April 5. America loses 29 more coal miners. April 11. The world remembers the deaths of millions. Each is significant. Each is potent. Each of these is a date that should and does humble all of us because in every way humanly possible we share the impact of them. Share in the excruciating pain and...
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Jan.30.2010
I just found out that beloved author of The Catcher in the Rye, J. D. Salinger, passed away. Though this news didn't completely devastate me like finding out Kurt Vonnegut had died four years ago, it did spark a bit of fond remembrance for the man and the many characters he brought us, especially...
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Dec.27.2009
It seems to happen every year, at holiday time. The promise of love and joy brings out remembrance and anticipation of young love and of great loss. And it seems to get worse with every year. That’s because age draws us away from the awe of life and the promise of more. Age gives us reason to...
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Nov.13.2009
This is that time of year when every lapel sports a red paper poppy to commemorate fallen British soldiers. A beautiful tradition followed by the young and old, soldier and civilian alike. It speaks to a nation that remembers.
When I first came to England, my boyfriend told me the story of a...
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Sep.11.2009
FRAGILEThe ideological differential in elementary calculus of dying has always been a predicament of material limitations: what does one do to create a legacy of immortality?
The notion of 'nationhood' is still a material predicament seeded in sentimentality and in that landscape where winning the...
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Jan.13.2009
Six years ago today my father dropped dead of a heart attack while running on the treadmill at the gym. He was 59. He had run his whole life, or at least from the time, at age 7, he ran away from the Catholic orphanage in which he'd been deposited by his widowed mother who could not afford to care...
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Nov.28.2008
As I walked in the woods Thanksgiving morning a kaleidoscope of memories filled my head.
The childhood visits to grandmother's house. The carefree trek to pre-Katrina New Orleans. The cross-crountry trips to celebrate with my parents. The year that I had to withdraw my offer to host a full-blown...
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