Category: odds and ends
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› Read more: Plot 59
Plot 59
A life remembered for an Olympic platform ended in plot 59. On crude cross fashioned from repurposed scrap wood, shoe…
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› Read more: A Terraced Heart
A Terraced Heart
In South Carolina, lawns were typically flat and flourishing. San Diego yards, not so much. What San Diego yards lack…
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› Read more: Kindertransport & the Christ
Kindertransport & the Christ
Gil and Eleanor Kraus. Up until a week ago, those names meant nothing to me. Yet, their bold endeavor to…
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› Read more: The Velveteen Years
The Velveteen Years
Today, I found a beautiful old copy of the Velveteen Rabbit on the 25 cent rack at our local library.…
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› Read more: A Radical Approach to Racism
A Radical Approach to Racism
Black Kettle. Red Cloud. Sitting Bull. These Native American tribal leaders have been my company for the past few weeks…
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› Read more: On Being Fed
On Being Fed
Having grown up in Catholicism, I have self-consciously walked many an aisle to bed fed a host by a strange hand.…
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› Read more: The Lack of a Loom
The Lack of a Loom
I am not a sewer, as the poor little stuffed bear whose nose I attempted to fix with a needle can…
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› Read more: Fighting Inattention
Fighting Inattention
Everything in me and around me seems to be dead against focused attention. As soon as I sit down to…
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› Read more: Decorated Homes & Dependent Hearts
Decorated Homes & Dependent Hearts
In our home, we are shaking our tryptophan stupor off and decorating our way into December. As we are only…
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› Read more: Pain as Preservative
Pain as Preservative
What formaldehyde is to organs in a jar, pain can be to the human heart. I spent entirely too many…
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