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Lines on Sixty

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Lines on Sixty   Saturday the 23 rd has been my 60 th birthday. Some time when I was a kid, maybe a early teenager, I came up with the idea of "seasons of life". I assume I must've seen it somewhere, because other people have proposed this same model. The idea is that when you're a child it is spring, when you're mature it's summer. In your middle age it's fall, and then as an older person it is winter.        My spring lasted until my 20th birthday and it was a pretty good childhood. It was a time of growth and discovery. I was a little bit shy and bookish, but well liked in general. There were ups and downs, as there must be in any springtime, but I think overall the good outweighed the bad.          Summer came with my 20th birthday, and while it started well, those 20 years incorporated some of the worst times of my life. 1985 through 1996 were very trying, with family and friend turmoil, legendarily bad jobs, and a relatio...
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In Loving Memory Heidi Jean Goodnow: 1972-2020    Just yesterday morning, they let me know you were gone Suzanne, the plans they made put an end to you I walked out this morning and I wrote down this song   I just can't remember who to send it to   One year ago on this day, I had to hear that news that most of us fear: that someone important to us has died. Heidi’s son Noah recently said “Mom was one-of-a-kind”, and he was right: she was kind, honest, funny – she had a wit that was as sharp as a razor and a smile that could light up even the darkest night. She was my friend, my business partner, and my significant other—our relationship was fraught, confusing, a huge mess at times—and yet in 2020, we reached a place that was happier than anywhere we’d been before.   On the anniversary of that heart-shattering day, I want to share my experience of the last year. I need to try to make sense of some of what I've felt with the experience of grief and lo...
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