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“And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos”—John Berger These photos are precious to me. Many of them appear in my “fraternal meditations”: Immortal for Quite Some Time. For the thoughts that accompany the photos: here the website for the … Continue reading
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The early days of June, month of Pride, overlap with John’s birthday on the 3rd. He would have been 71 this year, making him one year younger than me until my August birthday reestablished the difference at two years. I … Continue reading
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John would have been 69 years old today, only a year younger than I am, a year younger until my August birthday once again makes a two-year difference. He was 40 years old when he died. I was 41. I … Continue reading
Last night, in the small but ambitious “An Other Theater” in Provo, Utah, we saw Part One of Tony Kushner’s Angels in America. Our friend and colleague and wonderful actor Kim Abunuwara played Hannah (and, as Kushner suggests, she also played … Continue reading
Yesterday would have been my brother John’s 66th birthday. June 3rd. Since 1991 that date has been a reminder to me, an occasion to reflect again on fraternity and loss. Yesterday passed without a thought. Today, writing about my friend … Continue reading
[watercolor by John Abbott] Horror Vacui The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognized and is never seen … Continue reading
The menu offers a good range of choices, most of them bearing a family resemblance to the hot beef sandwich with potatoes and gravy I order. It’s plain fare served by thirty- and forty-year-old waitresses in black Levi’s and pink … Continue reading
The tragic-heroic trajectory for this story would be (1) obedient child raised by religious parents, (2) mission, (3) education (BYU), (4) marriage (temple), (5) family (in the LDS mold), (6) growing doubts, (7) shock at the death of an errant … Continue reading
John, you left the tradition you must have felt held you captive. Did it feel like you were falling into empty space? You were throwing off the structure Mormonism had provided. The Kiwanis, the chiropractor, the Fraternal Order of Eagles, … Continue reading
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