It has been a year since I heard the news of the devastating earthquake and
tsunami on 3/11. Even from a country long accustomed to earthquakes, the news
seemed quite serious, but
Side A – Wearing
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A tiny, uneven house once sheltered a denim jacket. A girl discovered it wadded
up in a garbage bag filled with other hand-me-downs. She rolled back the cuffs
and
I cartwheel backwards through years, to the porch step where I am sitting beside
a friend on a chilly October evening seven years ago. I try to breathe this cold
past self alive,
“…any mans death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankinde…”
John Donne
The blank page beckons like the first cut with the scalpel—
tremulous, uncertain, unknown.
How does one eulogize the unknown?
“Marital love is a demanding and dying thing compared to the stuff of movies and
mirages.” –Ann Voskamp
The average cost of a wedding in the US in 2010 was approximately $24,070.