April 2013
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Fergus [Irish: man of vigour] Seamus [Irish/Biblical (form of James)] Orison [French: prayer] Bar [Hebrew: wild] Rosalind [English: from As You Like It] Avalonne [English: the island paradise to which King Arthur was brought after his death] Mathilde [French: strength in battle] Evangeline [English: good news] Margot [French: pearl] Meabh [Irish: intoxicating] Marguerite [French: daisy flower]...
Apr 26th
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word of the moment: sophrosyne (σωφροσύνη)
A virtue. Moderation. mens sana in corpore sano. Healthy mind in a healthy body. Nothing at excess. Know yourself. I have been repeating sophrosyne over and over today, and considering how I can tie it to my own life. Although it hasn’t come easily, I have come to acknowledge how simplicity and restraint- not for restraint’s sake but for a healthy and happy mind- are beautiful and...
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Candles
If on your grandmother’s birthday you burn a candle    To honor her memory, you might think of burning an extra    To honor the memory of someone who never met her,    A man who may have come to the town she lived in    Looking for work and never found it.    Picture him taking a stroll one morning,    After a month of grief with the want ads,    To refresh himself in the park before moving...
Apr 25th
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In Paris
Today as we walk in Paris I promise to focus More on the sights before us than on the woman We noticed yesterday in the photograph at the print shop, The slender brunette who looked like you As she posed with a violin case by a horse-drawn omnibus Near the Luxembourg Gardens. Today I won't linger long On the obvious point that her name is as lost to history As the name of the graveyard where her...
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March 2013
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ListeniPhone voice memos // rough draft Glen Hansard...
Mar 4th
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“We met at a summer camp in Connecticut where we both had summer jobs. She winked...”
– Mr. Fox and his wife, Janie, were together fifty-four years before she passed away last spring from cancer. They came into my family’s restaurant each week, and sat at the same table, and he got chicken parmesan and she got the pork medallions. He still comes into the restaurant to share his...
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February 2013
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