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It was Indian summer, a bluebird sort of day as we call it in the north, warm and sunny, without a breath of wind; the water was sky-blue, the shores a bank of solid gold.

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Memory is a barricade against forgetting; light is a bulwark against darkness; life is a flex against the stillness of the grave. Maybe that's what I'm trying to do here, clear a space in all the debris, through all the anxieties and worries, where I can just exist, easily and simply, entire, for as long as I have left.

Bulwark, Grave, Light, Memories, Simply, Space
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This is what I know about love, That it is tested every day, and what is not renewed is lost. One chooses either to care more or to care less. Once the choice is to care less, then there is no stopping the momentum of goodbye. Each loved thing slips away. There is no stopping it.

Away, Choices, Goodbye, Lost, Lost Ones, Thing

Maybe reading was just a way to make her feel less alone, to keep her company. When you read something you are stopped, the moment is stayed, you can sometimes be there more fully than you can in your real life.

Company, Maybe, Reading, Real, Stopped, Way

Grief moves us like love. Grief is love, I suppose. Love as a backwards glance.

Glance, Grief, Like, Like Love, Moving, Suppose

The novels are always morphing into something else now, some kind of hybrid, more of a ground that isn't so easily specified. I suppose you could call it creative non-fiction, and rather focused on the natural world, which is what I'm most interested in reading these days. At least that would be the closest thing, but my books also include some fiction, so they're difficult to pinpoint.

Book, Creative, Easily, Interested, Pinpoint, Reading

Every story is a story about death. But perhaps, if we are lucky, our story about death is also a story about love.

Ifs, Love, Lucky, Stories, Story
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