death
October 22, 2009
- I decided to visit my own funeral. I’d given little thought to the plan so, I guess, that’s why it seemed slovenly and lacked the crispness that, for the most part, was characteristic of my life. None of my friends was there but then I remembered they died before me, and recalled my attempt at humor when alive by saying if you want a big funeral, you have to die young. ...
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October 16, 2009
- At the VONA Voices Writing Workshop, I sat with one writer in my political content class and heard the familiar complaint. "I don't feel like I have the time to write." That day she was crowned with a red knit cap, hiding the skinned head beneath. Everyday, a new lid, brilliant in color, a jewel radiating an aura on her face, a little gray from chemo. I knew she was a mother, was ...
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October 10, 2009
- I received the news late Friday night via email that the leader of our local writer's workshop group, Nelson Williams, had passed away. I was stunned and shook up. I had seen him last Friday at our workshop meeting and he seemed happy, in good spirits and in good health. How drastically things can change in such a short time. Nelson was the leader of our local writer's workshop group and an ...
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October 9, 2009
- I’m starting this blog with the hook word “Rape” for a reason. It concerns a current situation in the United States of America involving a major military contractor and one of many women who have been sexually assaulted. Under the “Binding Arbitration Rule” these woman have basically been told to keep quiet for fear of reprisal. Rape as defined in the Webster’s Encyclopedic Dictionary ...
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October 8, 2009
- Redroom asked me to write about being rescued. So here is my version of being rescued: When my mother was pregnant with me, she ate some bad fish, which was how she ended up with salmonella. I'm not sure, but somehow this caused me to get meningitis (viral). My mother realised that something was wrong and she and my dad went to the hospital. She had to have a caesarean. I guess you could see that ...
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October 4, 2009
- For some reason, I thought of my Grandpa White tonight. He died 26 years ago of a heart attack. Family lore says the clock on the fireplace mantel stopped at the exact minute he died. Maybe it did. He slumped in the chair, his dead weight dropped to the floor, and the clock hands clasped in grief…He was obsessed with clocks of all kinds—wristwatches, pocket watches, grandfather clocks, ...
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October 3, 2009
- I haven't blogged in a while because a family obligation has recently been requiring a lot of time and mental energy--but I'm taking a breath now, and I want to write about that obligation and one of my favorite relatives: my Aunt Jerri.When my two sisters and I were little kids, a trip to Aunt Jerri's house in San Francisco was my favorite kind of vacation. There would always be an afternoon ...
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September 29, 2009
- My "dragédies" are now available on Amazon.com*.What is a "dragedy" ? You may have heard about "dragees", sweets you offer to somehow exorcise festive events - generally a wedding or a birth... dragedies basically and nonsensically announce death, which means they can be sweet and sour, sad and funny (my definition of humor being the ability to accept death in ...
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September 28, 2009
- Why does he document himself aging? Every five years he makes a mould of his face, fills it with 10 pints of blood. The sculptures are then kept in a box filled with silica and chilled to minus 18 degrees Celsius to prevent them from turning to liquid. Precious. An ode to life frozen and afraid of flowing like the warmth of life-giving blood. British artist Marc Quinn says, “I think I’m more ...
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September 28, 2009
- This weekend, we slept in a desert death room. Let me explain.If you don’t recognize the name Gram Parsons, he was known for his work in two bands, the Byrds and The Flying Burrito Brothers, both in the late sixties. In the early seventies he recorded two solo albums, known for their duets with Emmylou Harris. Parsons is credited with creating country-rock, and Rolling Stone magazine ranked him ...
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