May 16, 2020
"There were no patterns for how to do this, how to hold each other safely and fully after a lifetime apart."
- Meredith Hall, NYT Modern Love
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"There were no patterns for how to do this, how to hold each other safely and fully after a lifetime apart."
- Meredith Hall, NYT Modern Love
Hoje é aniversário do Raphael RL, meu grande amor. Separei esse trecho de uma crônica de Meredith Hall, presente no livro Modern Love, para o dia de hoje:
"Não há um padrão de como se fazer isso, de como abraçar um ao outro de forma segura e plena depois de uma vida inteira separados. Éramos uma família. Nos amávamos. Precisávamos um do outro. Aquele era o nosso único mapa."
“Even now, I talk too much and too loud, claiming ground, afraid that I will disappear from this life, too, from this time of being mother and teacher and friend. That It—everything I care about, that I believe in, that defines and reassures me—will be wrenched from me again.”
— Meredith Hall, Without a Map: A Memoir
A terrible accident in 1947 sets the tone for a 15-year look at a rural family’s life.
Beneficence by Meredith Hall https://amzn.to/2FRUSwS
The Battle of Quebec
The Battle of Quebec
Le Combat de la Danaé The Battle of Quebec (arr. S. Bergeron) interprète: Meredith Hall album: La Traverse miraculeuse / Le Combat de Québec
La Nef [The Nave]: Sylvain Bergeron, Lisa Ornstein, David Greenberg, Patrick Graham, Amanda Keesmat, Pierre-Yves Martel, Seàn Dagher
Featuring both songs in one post made it too long.
Come, all…
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Old French Songs
Les Charbonniers de l’enfer
Charbonniers make of sell charcoal. Enfer means hell.
I hope I am not violating copyrights. This group, Les Charbonniers de l’enfer, was formed many years ago, and they have recorded very fine old French songs. On YouTube, one can access the words to the songs and an English translation. The lyrics have…
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It is a function of shunning that it must eliminate the shunned completely. It feels like a murder and is baffling because there is no grave. No hymns were sung to ease my going or to beg for God's blessing on my soul. Shunning is as precise as a scalpel, an absolute excision, leaving, miraculously, not a trace of a scar on the community body. The scarring is left for the girl, an intense, debilitating wound that weeps for the rest of her life. It's quite a price to pay for having sex, scared sex, on a beach on a foggy Labor Day night.
Meredith Hall, from “Shunned” In Fact p. 67
Meredith Hall | Mies Van der Rohe
Drake Campus: Des Moines, IA