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Thursday, May 8, 2008
GOING AWAY PRESENTS ; "Nobody wakes up suddenly bald. You rise for years with hair on your pillow and pay no attention "A woman puts her arm in a sweater,"- said my elderly aunt, "and out comes her mother's hand." At some point, in each of our lives, we begin to observe in our own behavior a trait of our parents. Whether it is a gesture, an inflection, or a habit, these mannerisms and attitudes were handed to us, often without our knowing, and usually carried unopened for years. I call them going away presents.
Thursday, May 8, 2008GOING AWAY PRESENTS ; "Nobody wakes up suddenly bald. You rise for years with hair on your pillow and pay no attention "A woman puts her arm in a sweater,"- said my elderly aunt, "and out comes her mother's hand." At some point, in each of our lives, we begin to observe in our own behavior a trait of our parents. Whether it is a gesture, an inflection, or a habit, these mannerisms and attitudes were handed to us, often without our knowing, and usually carried unopened for years. I call them going away presents.
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Sunday, May 4, 2008
Packing Pickles and Problems Doctors say there is enough salt in one pickle to give us all the sodium we need for a year. I'd like more years, and so I consume fewer pickles. But this is a story I still gnaw on over the years. It is a story my father's mother told over and over. And over and over. When I was younger I thought this was just the malaise of her advancing age. But it wasn't. She was simply hoping we were listening.
Sunday, May 4, 2008Packing Pickles and Problems Doctors say there is enough salt in one pickle to give us all the sodium we need for a year. I'd like more years, and so I consume fewer pickles. But this is a story I still gnaw on over the years. It is a story my father's mother told over and over. And over and over. When I was younger I thought this was just the malaise of her advancing age. But it wasn't. She was simply hoping we were listening.
