Tag: elder independence
member name: Adrian Eve Revenaugh
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March 30, 2009 10:06 PM EDT --
Spring by our standards in the area of Haines, South East Alaska, were met head on today.
Light, snow flurries mixed with diffused shots of sun and the occasional blast of cornflower blue and direct . . .
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November 07, 2008 12:42 AM EST --
There are certain indignities that accompany getting old. At eighty-two there are things that turn the whole damned process into an odd array of little miseries.
You've been doing just . . .
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May 14, 2009 10:46 PM EDT --
I am still quite upright. My arms are empty and my heart is full.
Mother, who has never slept and reads around the clock, received an exquisite box of chocolates, which she promptly ate, waving off . . .
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July 19, 2009 01:25 AM EDT --
Iris Murdoch is quoted as saying, "Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. To be damned is for one's ordinary everyday . . .
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January 05, 2009 03:43 PM EST --
The white 1930's bungalow was built along what was originally a wetlands, back when the Kern River was allowed water.
Every fall there's still a gathering, ground to air, of the valley's . . .
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September 03, 2009 03:41 PM EDT --
The bathing ladies have arrived both in full clip one along for the ride and you who've never liked being touched much less handled have heard our visti on how your anger may be directed towards large . . .
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October 02, 2009 01:15 PM EDT --
So I understand the red-eyed glare Ma, always have- shist- always have. And even if it comes to a place where the shrinkage takes the last of your empathy-- I'll remember how much more you've had and . . .
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May 14, 2009 10:27 PM EDT --
Diminutive was never an aspect of our mother's personality.
Intellectually robust, dignified, and not afraid of much. I've always viewed our mom as I've imagined the Grand Canyon: . . .
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November 23, 2008 05:16 AM EST --
Like birth, the dying process can seem suspended and outside of time. With birth and death the anticipation and anxious waiting, joins up with the exhaustive nature of a tremendous moment. Whether that . . .
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August 27, 2009 08:00 PM EDT --
Free write:
The tedious squ-wheeling of the fan reaches such a fevered pitch with each passing sweep that my eye teeth tingle yet it’s the only way to keep the 100 degree swelter from melting . . .
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