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Tag: loss

  • Wildwood 

    Wildwood 

    Being from Oregon and living ten minutes from Laika, it’s probably inevitable that I would go see Wildwood at some point. But, wow there was really something poignant about the film based on the Portland-based book—I bought my copy at Powell’s last spring. It’s a stop-motion animation about a lot of things all at once.…

  • Gone, not Gone

    There was a loss in my family last month. My father’s older brother, died of Parkinson’s coupled with Covid. My aunt and cousins chose not have a funeral, so it’s kind of on everyone in the larger family to sort out their feelings separately. While I feel bad for my cousins and my uncle’s wife,…

  • Good Grief

    Grief will have its way with us, whether we take room for it or not. My father died while I was teaching overseas. I dropped everything and hopped on the next plane I could get. I arrived home a day before the funeral. Then my parent’s home was inundated with relatives and friends, flowers, and…