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Mom’s advice

I snuck out to Jazz Fest late this afternoon to catch Randy Newman and some more jama jama. T was at the airport in DC on her way home. My mom called and left a message saying, “I can’t believe you are out at Jazz Fest when Tatjana is almost here and you are supposed to be there picking her up.” I called my mom as I headed back home and said, I’m picking her…

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Planning our future

My thoughts lately have been about getting our ducks in a row, preparing, making us and our house ready – waiting for my Duck to return to fix the last coordinates – I asked her to paddle back to me, quickly. The nesting is instinctive to women and it is not a blind eye to the present, but more of a smile towards the horizon: May 01, 2008 Taurus (4/20-5/20) Your brain is going to…

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My sweetheart is coming home

Before she boards her plane she sends me this: In the same space The setting of houses, cafés, the neighborhood that I’ve seen and walked through years on end: I created you while I was happy, while I was sad, with so many incidents, so many details. And, for me, the whole of you is transformed into feeling. Cavafy

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