Lockets simultaneously display and hide. But does squirreling our love and grief away in a piece of jewelry keep the memories and emotions present for us, or minimize them?
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Old Dudes On Skateboards
The death of his life-long skateboarding friend prompts Aaron Gilbreath to get back on his board — at 44, with his toddler daughter in tow.
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Woodstock: My Queer Love Story
Kate Walter went to Woodstock in 1969 with her boyfriend. She went back in 1994 with her girlfriend. She’s not going back again.
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‘Little Grandpa’ and The List
When her grandfather died, Abigail Rasminsky learned about a part of his life she’d known nothing about.
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Species of Grief
In the wake of losing both her father and her dog in the space of six months, Meghan Daum muses on different experiences of loss, grief, time and aging.
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To Grieve Is to Carry Another Time
Matthew Salesses considers the impact of his wife’s passing, and other factors, on his experience as a human passing through the fourth dimension.
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The Leaves, They Never Stop Falling
Colin Dickey remembers a departed friend and a tree that won’t die.
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Uncertain Ground
Grace Loh Prasad realizes that mourning is complicated when home and homeland aren’t the same place.
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O, Small-Bany! Part 3: Winter
The third installment of Elisa Albert’s seasonal quartet of essays about life in a small upstate, New York town.
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O, Small-Bany! Part 3: Summer
Notes from in between meditation-app alerts.