kaddish in two-part harmony
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daily kaddish: with squeaky dog toy
ou just never know whence the lessons of the daily mourning ritual will come. On this day of finally returning home to “kaddish in two-part harmony” as usual, Kjersti reminded us both that there are more important things than bereavement, prayers, and music. Continue reading
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Tagged Blue Yeti, China, delays, dogs, Garage Band, iPad, iPhone, iTalk, japan, jetlag, Korea, layovers
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daily kaddish: shenzhen
Midday I realized I hadn’t made a Kaddish the day before. I was horrified. Continue reading
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Tagged China, exhaustion, mosquitos, Shangri-La Futian, Shenzhen
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daily kaddish: whoops! a non-kaddish
The next afternoon, in the middle of my business meeting, I realized I’d completely forgotten to make a Kaddish on Thursday, 30 June 2011. It was the first day I’d failed to keep my promise. Continue reading
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Tagged Beijing, China, exhaustion, forgetting, mosquitos, Shangri-La Futian, Shenzhen
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daily kaddish: still in Beijing
The next morning, I figured I’d better record the Kaddish right away, before I forgot about it. After a few cups of tea and an hour or two of catching up on client email, I got right to it.
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daily kaddish: from beijing
I think it was 3:30 in the morning when we realized that bedtime had come and gone, and I still needed to make a Kaddish. Oy. Continue reading
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Tagged Bei Gao Studios, China, exhaustion, Nick Curley, Rayna Savrosa, Red Gate Gallery
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Podcasts once again in hiatus for travel
Once again I’m likely to have some trouble keeping the daily podcast posts timely while I’m traveling in Asia. I’ll continue making the daily recordings on the day, with days defined by local time, but transferring iTalk recordings from iPad … Continue reading
another kaddish for japan’s daughters and sons: on scale-slipping and tragedy
A kaddish for all the sons and daughters Japan has lost and will continue losing in the aftermath of this devastation, whose enormous universal scale I cannot comprehend, whose personal scale is also enormous in its minute detail. On how we use scale-slipping to cope with tragedy. A reply to Mira’s kaddish one daughter at a time. Continue reading
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Tagged 9/11, China, daughter, death and dying, earthquake, Haiti, Indonesia, japan, kaddish, Mandelbrodt, music, New Orleans, scale, scale-slipping, tsunami, writing
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