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  • Lent 2023, Day 11: Ascent. Requiescat in Pace.

    “It was surreal, writing an obituary, for my mom, who died of cancer, in a room full of patients, fighting cancer.”

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    Larry’s Daughter.

        About twenty minutes after leaving the graveyard where we laid my father to rest, I stood in line at the nearby Starbucks. It’s “my” Starbucks, the one I spent hours…

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    Lent- Day 31: Let it be to me.

    “Paolo de Matteis – The Annunciation” by Paolo de Matteis (Wiki Commons)       Today is the Feast of the Annunciation. For those unfamiliar, from Wikipedia:     The Feast of…

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    Lent- Day 10: Bookends.

    Our poor little Civic. 🙁       I started the week feeling frightened by my father’s declining health. I’m ending it feeling shaken by a car accident.   This afternoon, K…

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    Lent- Day 10: Bookends.

    Our poor little Civic. 🙁       I started the week feeling frightened by my father’s declining health. I’m ending it feeling shaken by a car accident.   This afternoon, K…

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    Lent- Day 5: My tears have been my food.

          “My dad is dying.”     Those words flashed through my mind and then hung, like weights, in my thoughts, in my heart, all day today.   My brother Joe…

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    Lent- Day 5: My tears have been my food.

          “My dad is dying.”     Those words flashed through my mind and then hung, like weights, in my thoughts, in my heart, all day today.   My brother Joe…

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    Some Sunday Stuff: December 21st.

    The original Hollywood Bad Girl, Mae West. (IMDB)     Hello All! Another week flew by, and I feel like I’ve barely done much. I’ve got most of my Christmas shopping done,…

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    Water, ice and crumbling pearls.

      (Screenshot, “Boss”)    “I wonder what it’s like to take the shape of the space you’re in?” -Tom Kane, “Boss”     That scene, pictured above, from the defunct Starz drama,…

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    Some Sunday Stuff: November 2nd.

    Long time no write. But I’m doing okay, staying busy with family. My dad was moved from a subacute wing in a hospital to a nursing home. This is progress- after having…