Tag: life
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Memoir: What I Wouldn’t Do
This ambassador-neighbor would do what I would, but cannot–study my dear offspring and act compassionately for them “on the spot,” not ineffectually hearing about their trials and opportunities weeks or months later, or at all.
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Memoir: A thought experiment concerning Dad (1973-80)
How would my father be doing if he were alive and well today, if he hadn’t died at 59 of bowel cancer? I think Dad might have adapted pretty well to the current culture. Several times, I saw him accommodate powerful changes in mores that happened around him in the 1970s. A professional adaptation occurred…
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Reflection: Joy, joy, despair (2024)
“Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart.” –MLK’s Nobel lecture, 1964 Notwithstanding Dr. King’s claim, here’s my attempt to describe it in words. The most pleasing of all human…
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Fantasy dinner: Hello, grandsires (2024)
Dear Great Grandfathers, It’s been 120 years since you were in the full force of your manhood, yet all I have of you are a few stories and characterizations left to me from your grandkids, who were my parents. Please dine with me (presuming your magical embodiment nourishes itself at my favorite French restaurant on…
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Memoir: Where babies come from (1968)
Even dogs, the noblest of creatures in my mind, were stained with the same mammalian taint of bestial inter-penetration. Oh, it was hard for a while to look at dogs, even my beloved Carin Terrier Marilyn, with respect.
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