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Breathing Lessons for a New Year
Last night I attended a wedding for a young man I watched grow up. Surrounded by dear friends on New Year’s Eve and young people who, only yesterday, we were supervising at play, I was pierced with the spear of the forward movement of time. In that room were friends I have known a long …[ read more ]
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Breathless in December
I don’t know about you but I’m out of breath. Gasping my way into the holidays and straggling across the finish line of 2010, I find myself in need of oxygen – a pure, unadulterated, unpolluted breath of heaven. Sometimes I feel like the wheelbarrow in the poem my William Carlos Williams “So much depends …[ read more ]