June is, among other things, National Pride Month. Given that the pandemic is loosening its grip and mandates are being lifted, especially for outdoor gatherings, this should be a really good Pride, too. Everyone is feeling celebratory, and Pride is packed full of music, dancing and rainbows. But wait. Pause. If you are a proud […]
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Posted inAmerican Journal, Lakes Region Weekly, The Forecaster
Life Unwound: Measuring life, inch by inch
As my mid-March birthday approaches each year, two of my brothers like to whip out a 25-foot metal tape measure used by our dad in his shop, which he equipped with a hundred tape measures. He’d say, “They were on sale at Marden’s. Someone in our extended family might need them.” The tape measure appears. […]
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Life Unwound: Ballast allows us to take bops, pop back up
Two images from Inauguration Day stay with me: 1. Kamala Harris and her husband, Doug Emhoff, idle in the dark after a busy Inauguration Day. They listen. They look. They attend. They stand quiet, seeing the lined-with-lights reflecting pool and the Lincoln Memorial. They embody stillness in the midst of political and cultural change. 2. […]
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Life Unwound: People need people
In my 30s, I recall saying, “Wait. What? I don’t get it. I should get it. When I was 14, one of my brothers died soon after birth. When I was 21, my 41-year-old aunt died. People die. Grandparents die, but not my grandfather.” Pepere Lebel loved me as one of those people the experts […]
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Life Unwound: How we start the day matters
“Once upon a time, when women were birds, there was the simple understanding that to sing at dawn and to sing at dusk was to heal the world through joy. The birds still remember what we have forgotten, that the world is meant to be celebrated.” – Terry Tempest Williams When I read this, I […]