Tag: Boston Public Radio
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Necessary Distractions, Before and After
8 November 2024 For several weeks leading up to Election Day, I was trying to find reasons to hope—or at least to calm the malaise made physically manifest in vague nausea, weakness, and occasional arrhythmia. I found many temporary reprieves, one in the accommodating generosity of the folks who tended to my lawnmower and others…
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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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Getting rid of things
F. Scott Fitzgerald, master of concluding cadences, finishes his short story “Three Hours Between Planes” (Esquire, July 1941) with this phrase embedded in his final sentence: “the second half of life is a long process of getting rid of things.” Nearly paralyzed by the prospect of sorting through and discarding the accumulated stuff of two…
Georgeann Murphy 