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An Ode to Bathing
I stood in the shower, the warm water cascading over my body. Random thoughts came to mind: My mother, telling me, as a pre-teen, that one of the tests of ‘lying’ on psychological tests was ‘Do you like to bathe?”. … Continue reading
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Tagged Bali, delight, Kalimantan, pleasure, Turkey, water, yoga
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The Memories Assembled on a Christmas Tree
Until I was 34 years old, I spent every Christmas at my parents’ home. That year, 1979, I was in rural Borneo, experiencing a Kenyah Dayak Christmas, complete with American carols translated and taught by fundamentalist Christian missionaries and a … Continue reading
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Tagged angels, beauty, California, fish, Indonesia, New York, Oregon, ornaments, Santa Claus, Singapore, stars, Turkey, Washington
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Ode to Cups
One of life’s pleasures is the daily process of choosing a cup from which to enjoy my morning coffee. I am now at my mother’s house in Portland, Oregon. She shares this enjoyment and is surely a prime source thereof: … Continue reading
A Walk Down Memory Lane
My trip to Cameroon wound up being routed through Istanbul, not something I’d initially planned, but still a thought that pleased. I left a chilly upstate New York (mid-May), where coming gardens, ending classes, and finishing professional papers occupied my … Continue reading
Springtime and other ruminations
I lie in my Peruvian hammock (obtained in 1983 and speckled with mold from years of disuse), gazing up at the blue, puffy-white-cloud-studded sky. I see the black angles and curves of the tree branches silhouetted against this sky, reminding … Continue reading
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Tagged Cameroon, CIFOR, collaboration, tropics, Turkey, winter, Yaounde
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Spring has Sprung–at Last
We had a lovely respite, beautiful blue skies, warm temperatures, for a week in late March. Then the winter that had never truly come hit us in April. This pseudo-winter is only now beginning to abate. Yesterday (and today) again … Continue reading
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Tagged Australia, flower, garden, Indonesia, New Zealand, Oklahoma, pavlova, pineapple, strawberry, Turkey, vegetable, weeds
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Literature’s power
Thinking about my own youth, and having just attended a huge, beautiful and extravagant Jewish wedding, I was reminded of a book that had a profound, if temporary, effect on my young life. I was 13 or 14 when I … Continue reading
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Tagged 'Marjorie Morningstar', Jew, play, S/He, Turkey, virgin, youth
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