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Tag: death and dying

the stones I cannot place

Posted on 13 November 201213 November 2012 by mira

My mother’s ‘passing’  has crippled my writing.  And apparently that’s not all. It would be unfair to blame her, per se, because that would be rude.  But I’ve had a sneaking suspicion that she’s had a hand in it.  Some lesson left to teach. I thought what would be fitting (I had this brilliant idea…

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oh amy, how could you — a kaddish for amy smith

Posted on 18 August 2012 by mira

My plan was that nobody else would die.  Ever.  My plan was to leave the death-and-dying biz to someone else; give someone else a turn.  My plan was that enough was enough. At least for this year. My plan was that only the elderly die, and that sometimes it’s a blessing and an end to…

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the end of memory

Posted on 23 August 2011 by mira

It’s a very simple proposition: what if we forget? What if we forget the details? What if we forget their faces? What if they become reductionist cartoons, selective memory, fixed inside our stories, unverified by outside confirmation? What if they were not at all as we remember them? What if we got the stories wrong?…

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a kaddish for harry potter 7.2 — and the mum who inspired it all

Posted on 15 July 201116 July 2011 by mira

The very last Harry Potter film ever opened today. And yes — I saw it. And I’ll see it again tomorrow.  The ritual of seeing HP movies on opening day with friends is apparently sacred.  And I blew it saying yes to one friend and oops to the other. My attempt at a save is…

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the doors

Posted on 21 May 201123 May 2011 by mira

I live for the doors. I wait for them. It’s an exercise in great patience. Endurance even. First off, however, this is not a post about Jim Morrison. Though it could be. He walked through these doors as well. So. I wait for doors. Wait for them to open. I watch them start to shut….

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the sjsu parking garage shooting — a kaddish —

Posted on 11 May 201111 May 2011 by mira

I’ve never worried about the SJSU parking garages.  All these many years of night classes, of colleagues and students getting police escorts back to their cars at night — I’ve never once seen the necessity.  And I don’t see it now, either. And yet, last night, while I was heading for my own car in…

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a kaddish for hindy nobler

Posted on 10 May 2011 by mira

The funeral was so fast!  Her brother was leading people off to head for a gathering at the house, one last time.  One of the chapel people, said “Stop — we haven’t said a kaddish!”  Some of us had been waiting for a kaddish.  But he was adamant — she wouldn’t want a kaddish.  Just…

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a kaddish for the happiest couple in america and really bad books

Posted on 9 May 201110 May 2011 by mira

That’s what he called them.  “The happiest couple in America.”  And as soon as the words were out of his mouth, the spell was broken and she was gone. I mean, where do you go from there? Repeat cycle?  Which would mean more of the same.  And if there was more of the same, would…

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some perspectives from the shikse’s dad

Posted on 26 April 201126 April 2011 by erin

Dad and I were talking about the “kaddish in two-part harmony” project the other night, and he muttered something about spending a career dealing with death. I’d never quite put it together that his thirty years in the Social Security Administration had had him dealing with death all the time—well, duh! So I asked him to write a guest essay about what that was like.

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the bookstore

Posted on 22 April 201122 April 2011 by mira

So.  The bookstore the other day — One of Malkah’s favorite things to do on planet Earth was to go with the tzaddik on his frequent forays into the dark and gloomy bowels of used bookstores.   Holmes Books, in San Francisco, was one of their favorites together.  The tzaddik would give Malkah a whole…

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