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Erased. But not gone.<\/a><\/h3>\n
How is it possible that I've never told you this story? At family dinner a few weeks ago, my younger nephew casually mentioned that he'd been assigned to do his end-of-term AP U.S. History project on Nixon. He was too surprised to even roll his eyes when his mother and ...
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\"On<\/a>\n

The past isn’t dead. It isn’t even past.<\/a><\/h3>\n
I felt lucky when they gave me back my coat at the end. Two hours earlier, I\u2019d traded it for a numbered tag at the cloakroom of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC. Then I walked into the lives and deaths of my people. I walked by ...
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Wrong Direction<\/a><\/h3>\n
Photo title: \"Wrong Direction\" Orleans, MA 2025.07.04 ...
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Ob-la-di, ob-la-da<\/a><\/h3>\n
It started at my grandmother Rose\u2019s burial. She and my Grampa Irving had been married for almost sixty-five years, so it wasn\u2019t surprising when she lasted only two months in a world without him. The funeral was in late June. So it also wasn\u2019t surprising to see a dragonfly flitting ...
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Personal philosophy<\/a><\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n
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It’s a cruel, cruel summer<\/a><\/h3>\n
So much joy here on Beach of My Heart. The fancy camera is giving me a whole new way to love this place\u2026 and to remember the beauty forever, because every year we know this is precious time that may never come again. Fear and loss are here too, always, ...
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Harvard, Veritas, and Gandalf<\/a><\/h3>\n
My feelings about Harvard are complicated. But when I think about how I want my alma mater to conduct itself right now, that\u2019s simple. I hope Harvard will spend down every damn penny of its endowed billions rather than let the Trump administration break them, if that\u2019s what it takes ...
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Owner of a broken heart<\/a><\/h3>\n
\u201cTo be alive right now is to have a moral injury.\u201d That phrase keeps coming up for me on coffeewalks lately. Looping in my brain. Or maybe it's my heart... or my soul, if such a thing exists? I think the phrase is mine, but the concept isn\u2019t. Moral injury ...
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New kid, old block<\/a><\/h3>\n
William Copley, \"Imaginary Flag for USA,\" 1972, as photographed by me at Addison Gallery of American Art, 1\/9\/25. SCENE: A few days ago. Low on sleep, feeling raw because I woke up in the middle of the night and couldn\u2019t stop fretting about the safety of my loved ones, the ...
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Whenever, wherever<\/a><\/h3>\n
\"Can I ask you... if they come for me... where do you think they'll take me?\" This f*cking heartbreaking question. Today, from my wonderful beloved young trans friend, whose eyes are suddenly about to spill tears in the middle of a discussion that was about politics. But the political is ...
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Never say goodbye<\/a><\/h3>\n
This is not the post I was going to write today. It's been a rough week, hasn't it? Waking up every day to a renewed deluge of cruelties. Knowing this is only the beginning. This morning, it all hit me hard. Suddenly I was nearly crying on my coffeewalk. My ...
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To Whom It May Concern<\/a><\/h3>\n
MEMORANDUM TO: White people and everyone with relatively greater privilegeFROM: Your fellow privileged white personRE: Efforts to outlaw DEIDATE: Today and every day\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014Just a reminder: We look at the world around us to assess *how* to continue advancing justice. We do not assess *whether* to continue advancing justice. Yes, we ...
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Hopscotch<\/a><\/h3>\n
Today. MLK Day. Inauguration day, which I won\u2019t capitalize. Sometimes, as I coffeewalk through the cemetery part of my loop, I think about the aphorism \u201cThe days are long, but the years are short.\u201d People say it about parenting, but I think it\u2019s true in a broader sense too. I\u2019m ...
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