I was watching Project Runway the other day, in which aspiring clothing designers compete in a reality show competition. Not one of my favorite shows, but I was sitting there all lazy and watching it. And Tim Gunn, whose job it is to make all of the competing designers feel insecure about their work …Cruel poetry
I am remembering too much lately.
Pretty sure.
There is an occasional superimposition of memory. My memories drape over the events of the day, suffusing those events with shadows of the past. And I am at once transported and stuck.
We went to a small amusement park today. The girls climbed onto a ride …Endurance
When I was about 8, my dad decided to retire and devote himself more fully to the development of his genius. He got some sort of fellowship from the state of Michigan to make this possible . . . welfare, I think it was called. As part of his grant, my dad was awarded …Certificates of genius
Mark does not remember things the way I do.
I don’t mean that we disagree about shared memories.
I mean that he just doesn’t seem to have that many powerful memories of his childhood.
Is that how it is if your childhood was normal and happy?
I’ll give you an example. Every once in …Memory’s depth
Down a small bumpy dirt road they come . . .
They do not know their destination. Packed into this truck with no possessions and no supplies, they do not know what lies ahead. It is a bumpy road.
It hasn’t been so very long a journey, but it has been a difficult voyage. …Tonic Immobility
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