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a man of letters
Our family is chock-full of wordy people. We soak language up and spit it out in big lots, out loud and on paper. We communicate, chirping like a flock of finches in an elm, scratching or tapping letters into sentences and stories, leaving our verbal footprints around as if we’d landed in black paint…
101 Words: Ashes to Ocean, Dad to Dust
“How’d it go?” “Fine.” “Mom thinks she saw the plane.” “No way, not out beyond Point Lobos.” “Did the ashes …” “Yeah. We had to make the mortuary package into two smaller ones to get them out that tiny window. Alan spilled some on the tarmac and freaked. John saved them, though.” “There was no”…