Category Archives: Epiphanies and Meditations

Twilight and other purloined morpheme packets –

Posted on August 20, 2008 by K

I don’t like it when a word—especially one I have a special fondness for like, say, “lunch”—is hijacked by one particular group or circumstance, and fenced off so that I can’t use them they way I’ve always used them, the … Continue reading →

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Not what I meant to post today:

Posted on August 14, 2008 by K

August 14 I really need to post these things when I first write them. Otherwise, they just keep expanding, or being usurped by new ideas or freaking events. I hate to push patience, suspecting that not so many folks have … Continue reading →

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Why the Chinese Prize Sons

Posted on March 25, 2008 by K

Though we have run dry of Easter egg hunters, we have no shortage of people who eat breakfast. And while the eggs we peeled for Easter morning were only white as snow and brown as earth, they tasted just like … Continue reading →

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The weight of a life –

Posted on February 12, 2008 by K

Beginning of February in the impossible year, 2008 The morning after President Hinckley died, my closet rod came down.  Just now, I’m sorry I took no pictures of this, but at the time, it wasn’t something I was ever really … Continue reading →

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Traditions—gotta love ’em

Posted on December 14, 2007 by K

Some shots of the new studio room: (and the lovely musical son):     More Christmas  While in our house the Great Thanksgiving Feast is about food, ritual, family and tradition (is that the same as ritual?), the Great Christmas … Continue reading →

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Of Cornucopias and Ports of Call

Posted on November 25, 2007 by K

Two days before the great feast, I saw a pirate. He was in the bread and bagel aisle, and I sort of cut him off. But this was after the epiphany, and so I am telling things out of order. … Continue reading →

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Shards and parcels –

Posted on October 21, 2007 by K

Woke up to snow. This was not a surprise—while we watched the BYU home game last night on Cam’s very large plasma TV, the field went from that lovely football green to a white wasteland. “We think it’s a first … Continue reading →

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No strings attached—

Posted on August 24, 2007 by K

I have long been fascinated by string theory. It has struck me more than once that a scientist is actually an artist who speaks in mathematics—and strings were an elegant and lovely leap of that mathematic imagination. Or maybe they … Continue reading →

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Dog Days

Posted on August 12, 2007 by K

August. Even knowing what “the dog days” means, I never hear the words without thinking of dusty, exhausted dogs, lying on gravel in the shade of a pealing building, tongues lolling, rib cages going like automated accordions. Everything is exhausted … Continue reading →

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Famous Adopted Words

Posted on August 12, 2007 by K

You know that oft-quoted ditty “All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing”? Often attributed to Edmund Burke. Turns out, he never said it. Martin Porter, a person I do not know, … Continue reading →

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