Loose Strife

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The temperature in Ashfield topped 40 degrees today and the water is dripping from rooftops and filling the streets. We’re not through the worst of it, yet. There’s more snow coming soon and February can be brutal, but there’s a sense that we’ve rounded the turn and spring is in sight. I feel like I’ve […]

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I found this photo among clippings and quotations that Laura saved. The inscription on the wall says: The hurt sky is weeping, soaked nightingales have ceased to sing. Dusk has come early. I am drowning in blue. The photo is clipped from a June 2000 National Geographic and shows a walkway into the London Underground […]

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I have received a few requests for suggestion regarding donations that might be made in Laura’s memory. It took a while to come up with some recommendations, but here are two: First, the extent to which our friends in Western Massachusetts have offered their support was very comforting, uplifting, and even surprising to Laura — […]

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There will be a memorial mass for Laura in Northern Virginia on November 28, the Friday after Thanksgiving, at 11 AM at St Michael’s Church in Annandale. A reception will follow the service. My intention is to have another event in Virginia primarily for the many hometown friends of Laura’s and her sibs from catholic […]

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A few weeks before Laura died she quietly bought almost $500 of books and DVDs from Amazon mostly for the girls. It was during a spate of energy and awareness, seemingly, that she filled her virtual shopping cart. As the boxes arrived over the coming days I realized what she had done, but by that […]

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I’ve receive some requests for the photos from the slideshow that was playing during the funeral reception. Besides a couple extras, most of the photos were either from a collection of my digital photos of Laura from 2000 to the present or from PJ’s scanned photos of Laura that are mostly from her early years. […]

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The sun still sets in the west, it appears. In fact, these last few weeks are the spectacle that makes New England famous. The rose highlights on the clouds cast by the setting sun almost seem like a reflection of the maple trees and the burning bushes. Over a year ago, as a housewarming present, […]

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A couple odds and ends: If you have any digital photos of Laura that you’d like to share, please email them to me ASAP and I’ll include them in a slideshow at the reception. Old photos are welcome, too, if you happen to have scanned them. There will be a musical program at the funeral […]

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Yesterday it occurred to me that all of you out in the ether might enjoy contributing to a jointly written tribute to Laura. I’m not up to the whole task right now, but now is probably the best time to capitalize on everyone’s interest and attention. So, I created a page on a website that […]

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