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a mere thread: December 2014
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Friday, December 26, 2014. I "liked" friends' Facebook photos of present openings and tired faces. When my brother sent me a video of his son reacting to the big reveal ( Santa! I delighted, damn it, in my nephew's excitement and refused to have A Big Cry over having missed that moment with my own kid. I was not practicing an attitude of gratitude, thank you very much, but rejecting the idea that to miss Christmas morning is to lose something irretrievable. He'll make you cry. Mouse regards Vivian as her...
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a mere thread: The Chill of November
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Saturday, November 15, 2014. The Chill of November. This has been a bear of a month. But what kind of bear? I'm thinking polar bear with a bloody snout. Polar bears make for cute stuffed animals, but they are wild creatures who, if they stumbled upon you on a snowy tundra, would have no qualms about eating you. All the better if you are fishy. Soexpect to receive a letter from me soon. Other things that have weighed on me this month, not ranked according to consequence:. Do Bill and I? I seem to have bee...
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a mere thread: Ch2
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Friday, December 26, 2014. I "liked" friends' Facebook photos of present openings and tired faces. When my brother sent me a video of his son reacting to the big reveal ( Santa! I delighted, damn it, in my nephew's excitement and refused to have A Big Cry over having missed that moment with my own kid. I was not practicing an attitude of gratitude, thank you very much, but rejecting the idea that to miss Christmas morning is to lose something irretrievable. He'll make you cry. Mouse regards Vivian as her...
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a mere thread: August 2014
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Friday, August 29, 2014. Yesterday we went to the zoo, all three of us, plus Laura from Child Life. It was Vivian's first time off the hospital grounds in four weeks, and she was delighted to be out and about. Aside from seeing giraffes, her favorite part of our three-hour furlough might have been the van ride itself and the wheelchair lift into and out of the van. I shouldn't think such things, let alone so close to my daughter's surgery date. I should envelope that idiot in love and healing, and th...
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a mere thread: September 2014
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Sunday, September 21, 2014. My god, I think, can we do this by ourselves? Vivian had a job for me to do today. I was to repair Teddy, one of two stuffed animals she's had since she was very small. (The other is Bunny. Bunny has been through a lot, including a night in the gutter outside Tacoma's El Guadalajara- who hasn't been there? Vivian took this photo of Bunny I on Valentine's Day of 2010. Bunny's overnight in the gutter. Imagine the "after" shot. Here they are, all packed and ready to go. Poor Tedd...
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a mere thread: May 2014
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Wednesday, May 28, 2014. Grade—and her dad. The girl was having a cast sawed off her leg, and from the bits of conversation I overheard I gathered that she had broken her leg skiing- for the second time. As it turns out, he was right. It didn’t matter that I thought he was overreacting or that the girl met his question with laughter and minor annoyance and the explanation, “They were accidents. 8221; “Yeah,” she said. Miserable still. I asked, “Are you ever going to ski again? I have to believe her dad h...
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a mere thread: Autumn
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Sunday, September 21, 2014. My god, I think, can we do this by ourselves? Vivian had a job for me to do today. I was to repair Teddy, one of two stuffed animals she's had since she was very small. (The other is Bunny. Bunny has been through a lot, including a night in the gutter outside Tacoma's El Guadalajara- who hasn't been there? Vivian took this photo of Bunny I on Valentine's Day of 2010. Bunny's overnight in the gutter. Imagine the "after" shot. Here they are, all packed and ready to go. Poor Tedd...
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a mere thread: July 2014
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Saturday, July 19, 2014. Letters, letters, and more letters litter the texts of old. The first novels were epistolary, collections of fictional letters. Today we send very few letters. We prefer email and texting and Facebook and Twitter and Instagram (although for the life of me I cannot figure out Instagram). Even holiday cards have sacrificed their handwritten content, stock though it might have become, to photos of children and a hastily scrawled "Happy Holidays! A letter from Hemingway! I have to ma...
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a mere thread: A Haunting
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Saturday, November 1, 2014. Beyond the golden years of trick-or-treating, Halloween morphs into a high-pressure holiday, like New Year’s Eve or the 4. Having a child relieved me of that burden: the moment I dressed my infant as a pea pod the focus shifted to her, and because of my ever-advancing age, thank god, I will never attract such attention again unless some darkly or too brightly humored person one day dresses me. As a pea pod, and by then I will be too far gone to know or care. 8221;: sunglasses,...
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a mere thread: Home
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Saturday, September 13, 2014. When I was in my mid-20s, I became aware of my tendency (ability? This is sort of what happened to me while we were in the hospital. So now we're home, and I'm slowly reorienting myself to the people and the details that I put on fade because I felt compelled to. I return to classes this coming Monday. To begin to explain how I feel about that, allow me share this image:. September 13, 2014 at 9:34 AM. I am SO glad youre home! I havent wanted to bombard you with emails askin...
