Two images from Inauguration Day stay with me: 1. Kamala Harris and her husband Doug Emhoff, idle in the dark after a busy inauguration day. They listen. They look. They attend. They stand quiet, seeing the lined-with-lights reflecting pool and the Lincoln Memorial. They embody stillness in the midst of political and cultural change. 2.… Continue Reading
What do they say? The days are long and the years are short. One of my pals has a five-year-old daughter and a three-year-old son. The girl doesn’t sleep, ever. The boy fights and tantrums, always. Their mom feels frazzled, exhausted, sometimes overly involved, other times checked out. I tell her, “I remember.” I remember how… Continue Reading
How do we measure a year? A life? Talk of violence, hatred, fear, anger? Maybe. And, yet, other ways open more possibilities. I offer one here. At first it seemed too simple, too light. Now it seems profound and important. My mother died a year ago between Christmas and New Years. I’ve thought about her… Continue Reading
New Year’s Resolutions? Oh, my, not again. Every year. And every year they fail because we (or maybe I) resolve to do something in the future. In 2021, I will finally ..fill in the blank.. lose those last five pounds, I will…I will, I will. What if we resolve to do something that can happen right… Continue Reading
In my thirties, I recall saying, “Wait. What? I don’t get it. I should get it. When I was fourteen, one of my brothers died soon after birth. When I was twenty-one, my forty-one-year-old aunt died. People die. Grandparents die, but not my grandfather.” Pepere Lebel loved me as one of those people the experts… Continue Reading
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