Hey, Tolstoy, you didn’t know Joe Rivkin
For my trip to the funeral of my father-in-law, Laura’s father, Anne Mei’s grandfather, Joseph Rivkin, I decided to use…
Tag: #living_dying
Thoughts on aging
I knew I was an old man living alone when I spent the entire time driving home from taiji planning…
When are we finished?
Philip Simmons makes the “unsettling suggestion” that it may be a “good thing” that life turns “out to be not…
Unfinished Houses
During Laura’s illness I subscribed to Tricycle magazine’s Daily Dharma, a quote from Buddhist writings and teachings that would come…
Open closed open: the poem
The Babylonian Talmud states: Unto what may the fetus in its mother’s womb be likened? Unto a notebook that is…
Whoever you are: the story
Day after Christmas, 2009. She doesn’t usually wake me in the middle of the night, especially to ask for food….