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The Zen of Perfect Stillness by
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Prompted By Silence

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We lay in bed, listening to the wind scream around the sturdy little cabin
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Comfort From My Cousins by
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Prompted By Cousins

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My father was the youngest of eight children, my mother, the youngest of four and I am their youngest. That makes me the youngest in a large generation of cousins, some old enough to be my own parent. We are a diverse group of people, yet we all get along, have each others’ backs and…
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The Living Lost by
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Prompted By Ex-Friends

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Some lost souls just don’t want to be found. For them, the span of their lives is judged not by the calendar nor the actuarial tables that insurance companies live and die by, nor by the average life spans computed by the American Heart Association. All of these objective measures of how long people may…
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Parasite and Roma by
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Parasite and Roma I love the movies and try to see all the good stuff. Last month I read the glowing reviews of Parasite ,  the new South Korean film directed by Bong Joon-Ho,  the Palme d’Or winner at Cannes.  And then when friend after friend after friend recommended it,  I was really intrigued and put…
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Please don’t judge me harshly as I’ve never been on Jury Duty but … by
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Prompted By Jury Duty

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… I really liked watching   No one asked me but I liked I like Raymond Burr in Perry Mason so much and later Rock Hudson in McMillan & Wife that I just accepted their chosen lifestyles with no judgements whatsoever.
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Cantor Gladys by
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Prompted By Final Farewell

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Cantor Gladys Gladys and I both lived uptown,   she on Manhattan’s westside and I on the east.   Yet we first met not in the city,   but in Lakeridge,  the Connecticut community where we both spent country weekends.   And once we discovered we both loved Scrabble,  we’d play together as often as we…
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A Responsibility I Managed to Escape by
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Prompted By Jury Duty

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I know my attitude is wrong. People are entitled to jury trials, and I would probably be a good juror (except for Trump).
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It All Came Together by
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Prompted By That Summer

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There is a certain time in one’s life when she knows she is ready; she is in her prime. That happened for me the summer of 1969, my sixth and final at the National Music Camp (now the Interlochen Arts Camp). Talent matters, but seniority does too. I had put in my time and blossomed…
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Take Care of Your Sister by
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Prompted By Birth Order

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Take Care of Your Sister I was my parents’ first child and had only one sibling,  my sister Laurie. My folks had always wanted a second child but after I was born my mother had trouble conceiving again.   Of course at the time I was too young to be told or to understand such things,…
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Racial Awakening by
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Prompted By Inequality

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Growing up, the only people of color I knew were our cleaning woman, Pam, and a series of successors whose names I can’t recall.
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