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Monthly Archives: June 2013

Respite

June 30, 2013by cartochronographer 1 Comment

My garden. All weekend at the end of a week of exams, papers, labs, extracurriculars. Parent teacher conferences. My garden, in a community garden, a plot of earth, mine for […]

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Life, Love

Three — Part Un

June 30, 2013by cartochronographer Leave a comment

The names have been changed. There are no names. There are no innocents. It was ten o’clock in the morning on a misty day in early October. There was a […]

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Fictionalized

Disintegration

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A year ago, a then new friend told me, as we began to know each other, that more than anything, I seemed very far from home. It was true. I […]

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Life, New York City

My Sister, Linda — An Introduction

June 29, 2013by cartochronographer Leave a comment

I both do and do not want to write this post. Characters will meander through this space, and I feel you should be acquainted with some of them. Some will […]

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Life, Love

I am not a writer (2008)

June 28, 2013by cartochronographer Leave a comment

I am not a writer. I woke up to a full ashtray on the nightstand and the dogs pouncing on me to go out. Writing takes discipline. There are dishes […]

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Life, Running, Swimming

Three lights into the cave

June 27, 2013by cartochronographer 1 Comment

In Northern California, in the gold country, in a small and charming town called Nevada City, you and I stopped into a bookstore. Many years ago. You would leave from […]

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Life, Love

Eva

June 26, 2013by cartochronographer Leave a comment

Gray light streamed from the oversized loft windows, very thin light, everything gray scale in the early, early, far before dawn morning. You took convincing to join me in this […]

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Life, Love

Cat gut

June 25, 2013by cartochronographer 3 Comments

The body is a thing. It is a material thing. It is small, it is finite, most of its parts are soft, and the hard parts (teeth, bone, heart) offer […]

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Life

Rules

June 22, 2013by cartochronographer Leave a comment

Let us pretend there are rules, they’re our rules, their, our, rules, and let us then pretend that we intend to follow them. Let us also pretend that sometimes we […]

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Life

Textures, tendons, transplants, tenderness

June 21, 2013by cartochronographer 1 Comment

The approach to La Guardia over Manhattan on a late night in November included a blood red moon. Blood red. Hovering over the skyline of the city. Seen from above. […]

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Life, New York City

Twenty four plus fifteen minus eternity plus infinity

June 17, 2013by cartochronographer 1 Comment

This is the number of years that will have passed until the last time I pulled my sister’s hair and told her she was stupid and slammed the door in […]

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Life

Of trees and houses, and houses in trees

June 17, 2013by cartochronographer Leave a comment

In a window of time spanning many decades, that may or may not now be closed, there was a tree, in what was my backyard, in what was my childhood. […]

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Life

Run

June 16, 2013by cartochronographer Leave a comment

The loop in Central Park is almost exactly six miles. The rain came like a monsoon, and I ran in the dusk until my glasses were too wet to see, […]

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Running

Sacred places, timeworn traces

June 15, 2013by cartochronographer Leave a comment

We put two reefs in the mainsail in calm winds, and it looked like a mistake. The forecast was for 25-30 knots of wind in the harbor–not too much to […]

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Life, Sailing

First Steps

June 10, 2013by cartochronographer 1 Comment

The tide turns slowly. From far above, when I take time to watch, I can see rivers in rivers, currents moving independently, tracing invisible formations underwater that cause otherwise inexplicable […]

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Life, Running, Sailing, Swimming

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