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  six weeks in the desert: green valley, arizona

  Posted on June 28, 2013 by nikkimeredith in odds and sods, rituals, science/research, unexpected adventures.

  At home above my desk I have posted this poem by Mary Oliver: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it. Oliver calls the poem “instructions for living a life” and it’s advice I try implementing every day of the year — every day except for the six weeks between Memorial Day and the 4th of […]

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  did not disconnect: the permanence of an ex-spouse

  Posted on October 18, 2011 by nikkimeredith in dating and breakups, family.

  I had an uncle Danny that I never met. He died before I was born but I saw photos of him in his Navy uniform. He was boyish and handsome and, to the extent that a child can mourn someone she never met, I mourned him. Or, to be precise, I mourned the idea of […]

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