Monthly Archive for: ‘June, 2012’

Stone Arabia

The pieces I liked best in this unusual sibling tale were ponderings about memory. Forty-something introspective, Denise, says of her father: “Inside, beyond my recall of events and dates and talk, there was this hot-wired memory of his body … Your experiences, the hard felt ones, don’t fade. They are written forever in your flesh,

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In the Company of Rilke

You may know that it was the Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke who wrote the oft-quoted exhortation to “Live the questions now … [so that] you might live some day into the answer.” You may not know that, on his birth, Rainer Maria’s mother, Phia, consecrated him to “the gracious Madonna” and gave him a

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