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What We Lost

The COVID-induced isolation—and worse—permeating our “senior living facilities” is a haunting reminder that, as a society, we lost something precious by migrating away from multi-generational living. Continue Reading »

Recollection of Light

Sitting at her brother’s drawing board, pale wood, color of her skin, she said she was drawing . . . conclusions. The way she said it she knew they would laugh, and they picked her up for ice cream. Later she remembered that, and later, after forgetting it, she remembered again. There was . . . . Continue Reading »

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