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Message from the Universe, 13 April 2024
So much has happened, Dear Readers, since I last posted on the day my sister died, nearly two months ago now. I’ve yet to record the extraordinary confluence of my sister’s final days with my time in Miami Beach over Superbowl weekend, attending (as Jane insisted I do) three days of my friends’ acquaintance’s extravagant…
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Jane
My baby sister died early this morning, the only person I have ever known for an entire life span, from beginning to end. Her diagnosis of stage 4 cancer last year on 1 April 2023, her and her husband Richard’s 28th anniversary, seemed a cruel April Fool’s joke, but her prognosis then proved accurate: she…
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“Slanders of the Age” and the Write-In Campaign, 1.27.24
This past week I’ve been consumed by two endeavors, volunteering in the Write-in Biden (WIB) campaign and reviewing my KDP editor’s notes on the Henry V chapter of my forthcoming book, Will to Live: Learning from Shakespeare How to Be—and NOT to Be. Doing both in such proximity reminds me of the curious elision of…
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Resolution
10 January 2024 The warm, festive glow of my little 2023 Christmas tree is no more now that Twelfth Night has come and gone, and the tree rests, au naturale and snow covered, on the deck. The library sans decoration now seems both larger and more desolate. Some compensatory cheering arrived on Sunday the 7th…
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Holiday Letter
21 December 2023 The winter solstice arrives today, and I am soon off to my local VW dealer to have my snow tires mounted, however pessimistic I am about having much snow headed our way. In 2022, I got to use my snowshoes (what a delight for this Florida cracker!) only twice. Monday’s big rain…
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Reinforcements
Sunday, 3 December 2023 A “Canyon Country” wall calendar hangs to my left as I type this. By December, the weight of eleven months past is redistributed from January’s heavy-on-the-bottom half of the calendar to the top half, where previously flipped pages one atop the other push on the last page turned until the nail…
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Fall Back
4 November 2023 At 2 pm yesterday GBH newscaster Henry Santoro reminded listeners that we return to Standard Time tonight, “moving from sunshine and happiness to darkness and misery.” As I type this at 6.20 pm, I’m hearing some fireworks—early Guy Fawkes reveling? Or just someone protesting this tipping of too-delicately-balanced psyches toward Seasonal Affective…
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October Miscellany: The Helpers
23 October 2023 As my birth month draws to a close, I can report I’ve enjoyed weeks crowded with happy personal incident. And so, Dear Readers, as I suggested last post, it’s the helpers I catalog here, turning away quite deliberately from the horrors of the 24-hour news cycle. Here they are, in chronological order:…
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Close Encounter of the Feathered Kind
12 October 2023 Last night I was out on our deck having my usual evening chat with my late husband David, my habitual practice ever since he left this dimension some four plus years ago. I sit and look at the stars and report out loud how I spent the day—both a good test of…
Georgeann Murphy 