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Go After a Friend
337. Go After a Friend Writiing about Paul and Thom yesterday reminds me of one of the things I learned in knowing them. I had known Paul even before he went to be pastor at Washington Square United Methodist Church in Greenwich Village. But…
Art Affects Attitude
336. Art Affects Attitude A story: In the fall of 1992 I went on the train with my friend Thom to Washington, DC. We were going to see the AIDS quilt spread out on the National Mall. My friend, Paul Abels, had died the…
Write—and then Write Some More
335. Write—and then Write Some More Years ago I was in therapy and I shared with this therapist a set of poems I had written after a traumatic event in my life. They were sparse. They were strong. They were clear. This therapist asked…
The Nonsense of Numbers
334. The Nonsense of Numbers It happened in 1999. We raced across the YMCA pool—four year old Lissa, and sixty-six year old me. Her legs thrashed like riding a bicycle in her zeal to get to the other side first. She clung to what…
Where Are You Going
333. Where Are You Going I found this poem that I wrote in 1977, thirty-six years ago. I’m not sure whether it has something to do with then, or with yesterday. — where are you going why must you run will you ever stop…
A Henry James Quote
332, A Henry James Quote I found this quote quite a while ago. And I lost it. Then I found it a couple of months ago, and…you’re right—I lost it again. Now I’ve found it once more, so this time, here it is. Henry…
A Little Street Theatre
331. A Little Street Theatre I was remembering today for some reason some of the stories my daughter Dara would tell me about the street theatre that she and her friend did on the streets of New York. They shared an apartment but sometimes…
Starting Over—and Over—and Over
330. Starting Over—and Over—and Over — started over held intention for a day for two three a week perhaps intention frays into muddle — starting over happens many times does . not . hold . — because — it starts from pulled-together will backed…
The Importance of Copyrights
329. The Importance of Copyrights A couple of months ago I wrote a piece called “Annyway.” It was #270. I used something that was evidently going around in a lot of places but where I read it said that it was found on the…
Mother’s Day Proclamation
328. Mother’s Day Proclamation Mother’s Day hasn’t always been a Hallmark holiday. It had its beginnings as an activist day. Julia Ward Howe in 1872 wrote a Mother’s Day Proclamation, and for thirty years, we celebrated Mother’s Day for Peace on June 2. It…
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