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Tag: writing

yahrtzeit for galina

Posted on 25 May 201125 May 2011 by mira

your quizzical smile eyes cocked, waiting you say nothing, save ‘why?‘ and they pour out their secrets and you — you collect them and you do them justice but that’s just our business— that’s just our business your fingertips arranging their tales for the ages their children will read you they’ll wish they could find…

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another kiddish for our kaddish

Posted on 29 April 2011 by erin

Mira, your writing and thinking and worldview blow me away on a regular, delightful basis. This is me saying in front of God and everybody what an honor it is to be your collaborator.

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another kaddish for japan’s daughters and sons: on scale-slipping and tragedy

Posted on 28 March 201128 March 2011 by erin

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.

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a kaddish for easy expectations

Posted on 14 November 201023 March 2011 by erin

The easy expectations—the stuff we’re just sure we know—turn out to be where we’re wrong.

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running away together — dordogne

Posted on 5 June 201014 May 2011 by mira

It’s not like either of us never went anywhere — though I thought she had me beat in this regard. Her fieldwork took her to what I thought of as the ends of the earth. although for her, it wasn’t really all that far — just inaccessible. My own favorite spot was in the deep…

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