My weekly Friday night dinners with grandma and grandpa offer endless insights into their relationship and windows into fading memories of a life in the old country. Just as my grandfather tries unsuccessfully to weave branches of palm fronds to be used in decorating the lulav we waved together (fulfilling a commandment recorded in a three-thousand year old text), so his storied recollections wistfully fray at the edges; no matter how hard he works at weaving a coherent tale, the details spiral apart, forcing him to circle and repeat, circle and retell, circle and revise. . . but ever concluding with the self-assured statement, "I used to be able to make it everything."
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- "I believe that there are semblances between seemingly disparate ideas, . . . if we can stand back and see a larger picture." Terry Tempest Williams
Oct 18, 2008
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