A brief tribute, July 2025
Just so beautifully intricate, and so beyond reach,
This brilliant fluorescent shell with its paper-thin layers
Like those great pieces* left by the tide on an Aegean beach.
Just so beautifully intricate, and so beyond reach,
The potential, very often achieved, of knowing how
to teach.
Although sometimes seeming one myself, at heart I never believed the naysayers.
Just so beautifully intricate, and so beyond reach,
This flashing, fluorescent shell with its paper-thin layers.
*abalone shells!
A Brief Memory: August 2025
Mark Bittman on salmon burgers – I couldn’t not think of Finn.
We grilled in my alley on that tiny Weber before vandals took it away!
Yesterday I made Indian chicken curry, likewise in honor of where we’d “been”
I couldn’t not think of Finn.
And though much better at cards, he often let me win.
Whether Western Ave or Greece was better, I couldn’t say.
Mark Bittman’s recipe for salmon burgers – I couldn’t not think of Finn.
We grilled in my alley on that tiny Weber before vandals took it away!
A 19th Birthday
Other birthdays, other years,
But 2025 the first without you.
We had a Mass and several Igram tears.
Other birthdays, other years.
Memories, yes, and of course as it nears,
Fall leaves, maybe pumpkin bars, and some things new?
Other birthdays, other years
But 2025 the first without you.
Quite awhile ago, I went to Ananda Ashram, Tamil Nadu (for 6 out of 7 winters, actually). This year, Senthil, the staff, and these beautiful students held a memorial .
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