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Shadows | Notes from Vanaprastha
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Personal Essays by Carole Duff. Posted by Carole Duff. Asymp; 3 Comments. When my daughter was a teenager and going through a particularly difficult time, I asked her to take a walk one evening, my Uncle George told me during our visit last summer. I said to her, ‘Do you know what I don’t like in you? Pause] It’s what I see in myself.’ Uncle George looked at me and said, You might think about that, Carole, when you talk to your daughter. Let me shed some light on my top three shadow characteristics:.
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March | 2015 | Notes from Vanaprastha
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Personal Essays by Carole Duff. March 30, 2015. Early Saturday morning, I’d read the news, finished my coffee, fed the dogs then, ready to start the day, checked …. Continue reading →. March 23, 2015. For thirteen years, starting in the mid-80s, I drove a tan-brown four-door, standard transmission 1983 Nissan Maxima named Martha. She …. Continue reading →. March 16, 2015. Hey, Mom. I’m on my way to yoga, my daughter Jessica said when we skyped last week. It was 6:45 …. Continue reading →. March 9, 2015.
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Enemies | Notes from Vanaprastha
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Personal Essays by Carole Duff. Posted by Carole Duff. Asymp; 4 Comments. It is a chilly Halloween night in Connecticut, and Paul McCartney sings Yesterday on my transistor radio. We neighborhood kids walk the dark rural roads holding flashlights for the younger trick-or-treaters like my sister. At ten going on eleven, she doesn’t need my fourteen-year-old protection. But that excuse allows us teens to hang out and snag some candy even though we’re far too cool to dress in costume. A woman in my Bible St...
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Tree Knots | Notes from Vanaprastha
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Personal Essays by Carole Duff. Posted by Carole Duff. Asymp; 2 Comments. I’d like to be a tree, said actress Katharine Hepburn during her 1981 interview on the TV program 20/20. What kind of tree? Barbara Walters asked as a follow up. An oak because they are strong and pretty. She didn’t mention that oak tree leaves and acorns are toxic to most livestock due to large amounts of tannic acid. They also tend to suck up water and sun, thus killing off much of what might want to grow underneath. Bark as in t...
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Free Will | Notes from Vanaprastha
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Personal Essays by Carole Duff. Posted by Carole Duff. Local or Human Interest. Asymp; Leave a comment. All the Light We Cannot See. Now playing at the American Shakespeare Center. I’ll leave that question to theologians. What interested me was the mention of a hostile cosmos that entraps… Who among us has not felt at times that the world can be a dark and scary place? All the Light We Cannot See. Which do I freely choose? I thought about that yesterday as my sons and daughter sent me good wishes for a h...
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Dissonance | Notes from Vanaprastha
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Personal Essays by Carole Duff. Posted by Carole Duff. Asymp; Leave a comment. Bethany, Connecticut’s Amity Regional Junior High School band marched in the Memorial Day Parade that sunny day in May some fifty years ago. I played both flute and piccolo to John Philip Sousa’s. Our band had a good reputation and attracted large numbers of students, who together sounded grand. But that day, size became a liability. Listen to each other! And I did. The dissonance made a strange kind of sense. In Waynesboro, V...
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April | 2015 | Notes from Vanaprastha
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Personal Essays by Carole Duff. April 27, 2015. I’d like to be a tree, said actress Katharine Hepburn during her 1981 interview on the TV program 20/20. What …. Continue reading →. April 20, 2015. Bethany, Connecticut’s Amity Regional Junior High School band marched in the Memorial Day Parade that sunny day in May some …. Continue reading →. April 13, 2015. I’m under ten years old, anticipating that magical double-digit landmark, and whirling around the living room in my pajamas, waving …. April 6, 2015.
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February | 2015 | Notes from Vanaprastha
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Personal Essays by Carole Duff. February 23, 2015. Trouble always comes in threes, Mother warned us when we were growing up. In the past couple of weeks, Keith …. Continue reading →. February 17, 2015. Snow fell on Vanaprastha yesterday, covering the greenhouse windows in the dining room. Across the region, schools closed and many …. Continue reading →. February 9, 2015. This morning, Keith gets up first. He lets Heathcliff out for his ‘hurry up’ then Freya. From the comfort of …. Continue reading →.
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