Reflections

Passing the Baton

June 23, 2006

Lots of time to reflect lately, unsurprisingly. Mom continues to slowly decline, though with surprising bursts of energy the last few days. She sent me downstairs in search of an elusive box with her mother’s initials on the top, and in the course of looking for it, I found an amazing treasure: 6 boxes of [...]

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Things I Used to Know

June 18, 2006

Well, as all 3 of you may have noticed, we’re in a time of redesign and cleanup at WanderingMind. With friends getting spiffy new weblogs of their own, I decided it was finally time to start paying some attention to housekeeping around here. With that in mind, I’ve been going back through my old entries [...]

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Finding Meaning

December 22, 2000

From Walt Whitman [via following Eden], a manifesto of sorts. I am always searching for the meaning, and I find it in little bursts most of the time—an unexpected phone call, a bird outside the window, a meal with friends. My good memories in this life are made up mostly of small pleasures like these, [...]

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Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes

October 30, 2000

Liz, this one’s for you: So I was noodling around in my bookmarks tonight, trying to find that hilarious Gore/Bush rapping Flash animation that was going around a while back, and I came across the pinnacle of all Flash animations. It’s been way too long since I laughed this hard. Warning: Do not listen to [...]

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Grief

October 20, 2000

I’ve been thinking a lot about grief lately. How afraid I am of it, and yet how unavoidable it ultimately is. And then I came across this wonderful piece by James Lileks, about going home for his mother’s death. In the midst of my brooding, it was hard to read, but it reaffirmed three truths [...]

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