Funeral Homes Change Their Practices In Reponse to Coronavirus – NPR
“We’re encouraging brevity,” he says. “It’s not ideal, but it’s the best we can offer to secure the safety and health of our community.”
But for some communities that treat funerals as celebrations with singing, eulogizing and fellowshipping, a few minutes to say goodbye is less than ideal.
“We understand that grief needs closure,” Wenig says. “Being deprived of that opportunity is a huge emotional blow.” NPR.
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Met by luck, with like destinations, We startled again at what ended in pique. Strollers out, seeing us, had no notion;
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If the spider is an ode to mother, the spun web must be to a “deliberate, clever, patient, soothing, reasonable, dainty, subtle, indispensable, neat, and [..] useful” place.
Spider Web and Stables
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At home
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From Aperture Magazine #238, Spring 2020, titled House & Home.
Emmanuel Iduma in conversation with David Adjaye. The many faces of “home” in Japanese photography by Lena Fritsch.
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Really, there was no reason for it!
Greenbaum refers to Jack Gilbert’s ‘A Brief for the Defense.’
We must risk delight.
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Surface of a thing
Sculpted surface of a thing; water, light, a position relative the light, and an angle relative to foliage (Matheson Hammock) Biscayne Bay.
Related : Surface : Matters of Aesthetics, Materiality, and Media by Giuliana Bruno (2014).