Monthly Archives: August 2013

“Authenticity”

“Authenticity” Today I was talking long-distance to my friend Sally in Maine and mentioned that I wanted to write something on “authenticity.”  (Sally and I are lifelong friends.)  Her comment?  “Authenticity is staying friends over a lifetime.” Why was that … Continue reading

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“Invisibility”

Toulouse-Lautrec, ‘Ce qui dit la pluie’. “Invisibility” Invisibility can signal erasure.  Qanta Ahmed’s In the Land of Invisible Women, subtitled A Female Doctor’s Journey in the Saudi Kingdom, describes shopping for the author’s first abbayah (burqa), “a flowing robe that … Continue reading

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“Aging”

Correction: According to Yogananda in Autobiography of a Yogi the woman pictured above, Shakari Mai Jiew, is the one who was 112 in 1938.  Thanks to Judy for the heads up. “Aging” Aging is about stratagems plus the overview.  My stratagems … Continue reading

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