https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/437397 (In Public Domain) Third Daughter - 09/20/20 …and there was a time, once, when she thought her father was getting older, and then almost the next day, though she doesn’t remember what day that was, he was older but now also old. So what do...
View from the Subway Car Leaving the Brooklyn Bridge Station And, as in fleeting moments such as this, my camera, still around my neck but achingly turned off and not in my hands, does not capture the sight of the middle-age black man, too well-dressed to be identified immediately as homeless, but...
An Image from the 2016 Election – November 2016 A man described to me how his son, the day after the election, told him that a friend, a boy in his 5th grade class, was crying at school. The father knew this friend and knew why he was crying. His son’s friend was Muslim. Smiling...
Sent: May 1, 2014 Subject: Resourcefulness at its Best …and as usual, she found a way to save them. The bus had broken down, the others had already started the trip to the nearest town clinging to the tops of passing cars and trucks and while not chaotic, the scene was reminiscent of a...
Larry of the Sneakers, the Whitest of White & The Great Walls Around Me, a Mile High and Two Miles Wide It was around Christmas, and I was home from college for the holidays when my father told me that Larry had been shot and killed. When my dad told me this, he looked down, silent, seeing...
When I was threeMy daddy taught meHow to sit under the orange tree in springTo catch the smell of the blossomsWhile I played under the treeWith my tea cup, Baby Mary and me When I was threeMy daddy would read to meIn the evening after supperWe would share a hot cup of teaAnd be cozy with the crazy...
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/435877 (In Public Domain) Oldest Grandson – 07/07/14 …and now that he is twelve and no longer a child in his own eyes and in the eyes of some around him, sometimes he likes to think, sometimes he likes to see, and see and think, and sometimes just...
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/437115 Third Sister – 04/28/14 …and moving towards the morning room, she paused and beheld and contemplated for a moment the bouquet of flowers from the garden she had arranged last evening specifically, so that when she walked by in the morning with...