In memoriam

Behind the metro station in my hometown, there is a concrete parking structure, clad in brick, instead of constructed out of actual brick. Whenever I see it, I wonder if other people know that across the country, on the campus of a boarding school, there is a library that looks like this parking structure. The [...]

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Light to Light, Light to Dark

There is a saying in my first language, often repeated around the house: “Light near light becomes light, light near darkness becomes dark.” The saying is about proof of influence, expressed in visual terms. So like some minor historians, my parents looked back on the company I kept as if describing epochs and eras of [...]

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we have a home

Many people, I’ve heard, look for years, at least several months, before they buy a home to live in.  By the second week into our search though, we had found a home. It was a salmon colored, one-level tract house, well-cared for. You could see the thoughtfulness in the childproof doorknobs and in each room, [...]

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