THE MEMORIAL PAGES · TIME & MEMORY
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TUESDAY, 14:03 — passed quietly while you checked your phone. Survived by no one. No services will be held.
A SUNSET, OCTOBER — rated "pretty good" and released. It had prepared colors nobody has mixed since.
THE PAUSE before she answered — lost to interruption. Donations to the cause of finishing sentences.
A WALK, taken as transit rather than as a walk. The trees had dressed for the occasion.
WEDNESDAY, ENTIRE — details unavailable. Reconstructed later from receipts.
THE JOKE at dinner, twice-told, mistimed — died as it lived: trying.
11:59 PM — the year's last minute, spent looking for the remote.
STILL LIVING:
the one moment you gave your whole attention to
[ PHOTO — table after
a long dinner ]
a long dinner ]
Attention is the only embalming fluid that works in reverse: it keeps things alive.
FIFTY POSTERS ON THINKING
IN MEMORIAM: MOST OF IT