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340. Doing the Assignment For over a dozen years I ran writing groups in a variety of locations. I called it “Writing Down the Stories of Our Lives.” The goal was to encourage people to write down some of the parts of their lives (I wrote about this...
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May 24, 2013 Ann
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339. Paring Down Again and Again and Again I think it’s strange that I pare down my possessions over and over again and then in not too long a time I have to repeat the process, because I accumulate. I’m down to three rooms that are an addition...
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May 23, 2013 Ann
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338. Remember the Milkman? In 1972 Clarence was our milkman. I don’t remember any milkman before Clarence. Now that either means that in Nashville, or Chicago, or even in Indianapolis we didn’t have milk delivered, or it means that none of the other milkmen were as memorable as...
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May 22, 2013 Ann
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337. Go After a Friend Writiing about Paul and Thom yesterday reminds me of one of the things I learned in knowing them. I had known Paul even before he went to be pastor at Washington Square United Methodist Church in Greenwich Village. But I didn’t know him...
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May 21, 2013 Ann
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336. Art Affects Attitude A story: In the fall of 1992 I went on the train with my friend Thom to Washington, DC. We were going to see the AIDS quilt spread out on the National Mall. My friend, Paul Abels, had died the spring before and his...
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May 20, 2013 Ann
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335. Write—and then Write Some More Years ago I was in therapy and I shared with this therapist a set of poems I had written after a traumatic event in my life. They were sparse. They were strong. They were clear. This therapist asked if I would bring...
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May 19, 2013 Ann
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334. The Nonsense of Numbers It happened in 1999. We raced across the YMCA pool—four year old Lissa, and sixty-six year old me. Her legs thrashed like riding a bicycle in her zeal to get to the other side first. She clung to what she called the “marshmallow...
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May 18, 2013 Ann
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333. Where Are You Going I found this poem that I wrote in 1977, thirty-six years ago. I’m not sure whether it has something to do with then, or with yesterday. — where are you going why must you run will you ever stop and slow down what...
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May 17, 2013 Ann
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332, A Henry James Quote I found this quote quite a while ago. And I lost it. Then I found it a couple of months ago, and…you’re right—I lost it again. Now I’ve found it once more, so this time, here it is. Henry James said: Three things...
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May 16, 2013 Ann
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331. A Little Street Theatre I was remembering today for some reason some of the stories my daughter Dara would tell me about the street theatre that she and her friend did on the streets of New York. They shared an apartment but sometimes when they were out...
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May 15, 2013 Ann
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