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Activities of daily living
The photo from your grade-school yearbook shows a toothy horizontal grin you’ve placed on your face for the camera. Not a joyless expression, quite, but mask-like. You wear an eagerness meant to satisfy the adults, as they bossed you and th...
My window
Among the images in our family album is one of you beaming in a snazzy suit. Good teeth, Pat. You’re at my first wedding, in my mother and stepfather’s front room on Dec. 21, 1979.
Forty-six years later, to the day, you will die suddenly....
Without ever crossing an edge
In the final minute will I picture the airplanes coming in low and loud over San Diego as if to graze my scalp? Will I flicker-image the monks of Angkor Wat in orange robes, so young and prone to giggle? Will I re-watch the tiny blood-pearl...
Keep writing about him, she said
Everybody else will forget and you’ll be holding the memory. He wants you to hold it. Keep writing.
OK.
I see you in death the way you must have been dying to be seen in life – as whole, complete, sovereign. You stand clear of acceptance...
The brothers we needed
If the weather forecast is correct, the day after Christmas in Eagle River, Wis., will bring snow. (Who can forecast anything? How many times must we be taught this?)
Specifically “snow showers,” a phrase familiar to anyone who has wintere...
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