A life in words
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Regarding Mom
As today marks the twelfth anniversary of her suicide, my mom is in my thoughts. After all these years I still struggle to make sense of her memory. I see it all from the child’s perspective I had when I knew her, and from that point of view she was a paradox: somebody immensely kind…
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This Wonderful World
Do yourself a huge favor and perform the following steps: Click here. Click on this button in the upper right. Spend hours gawking. TIP: You can get another batch of photos by clicking at the bottom. You may have noticed that hardly a post on this blog goes by without some sort of beautiful nature photo being…
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Too Whatever
A few weeks ago with some friends I watched a Finnish movie called “Äideistä parhain” (Mother of Mine). It tells the story of a young Finnish boy named Eero. Eero has a bit of a rough time through the course of the film. His father is killed in an air raid during fighting between the Soviet…