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Closed captioned
(pensive orchestration) I contemplate my life. (distant music; eerie, tentative) It is dark in here. What is this place? (music intensifies) I am born, wailing like I know what I’m in for. (Baby Elephant Walk) 10 pounds, 11 ounces. (baby crying) Colic for three months. (playful orchestration) I learn to talk, walk. Nothing goes really […]
Our dumb brains
My neighbor Edie, who has macular degeneration, recently hired a woman I know to be her driver for errands and appointments. Because this woman — let’s call her Paula — told Edie she and I are friends, Edie has been plying me for information. Edie is a great neighbor and wonderful woman, apart from an […]
Two wolves
I was surprised by Orlando — not the wholesale carnage of the latest gun violence, which has become too familiar to shock any American — but the virulently anti-gay sentiment which apparently motivated the killings. I came out 35 years ago, so I’m no stranger to homophobia. I’ve heard all the slurs; I’ve been heckled for daring to […]
Elemental
I wonder at my good fortune to be loved in such a way, to have a person in my life who prizes not only my strength and competence, but the fragile parts, too. Someone who loves not just the attractive swatches of my being, but the whole messy cloth. Someone who would change none of it, and protect all of it.
The work of the living
One of the sweetest tombstones in my little town’s cemetery is inscribed with a facsimile of the valediction the couple beneath the ground used to close their letters: As always, Walt & Mil. Yesterday, Mil, 91, joined Walt, who was buried there in 1978. They were born three days apart in 1923 and married when they were 19, […]
Meditatio Ephemera 