One of the great tragedies of life is that we can be living in the middle of an epochal moment and take it for granted, pretending the moment somehow will live forever or that the people with whom we share life will continue in their station unabated. We are prisoners of the present, even forContinue reading “In Memoriam: The Epoch of Richard Harper”
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A Thanksgiving Re-Membering
It was probably 22 years ago when I made the comment that would follow me the rest of my days. I was a 13 year old kid riding in the back seat of my parents car on the way to West Virginia for Thanksgiving. My mother, always the astute observant one, said, “well today isContinue reading “A Thanksgiving Re-Membering”
In Memoriam: Posthumous Lessons from my Boston Terrier, Jax
My little boy kept going over to the blind, opening it, and peering outside, to see if it had really happened. His mother would come behind him and close the blind again, trying to put a salve on the curious wound that had now been opened. He would not be deterred. Again and again, thisContinue reading “In Memoriam: Posthumous Lessons from my Boston Terrier, Jax”