Tag: deterioration
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A Measure of Living
It’s 6:00 am on a February morning. The air is chill as I slip out from beneath warm blankets. Ice has formed inside the window pane of my bedroom and I scrape it away to peer into the darkness at the frosted world beyond. It is 1960. I am fourteen years old. Outside our front […]
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Grinding Doors
First let me say mine is a small, humble dwelling, though of infinite variety. If I further divulge that one source of variety is the incidence of different door designs I may provide a clue concerning my week’s activities, and possibly be drawn into admitting to one of the challenges of advancing age. Doors various […]
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Into the Sunset
As months go, September went. And October came – momentously. Two things, two life-altering things, have happened in October. Firstly, and quite devastatingly, I finally lost sight of my feet. Let me explain this. When you become older in a comfortably furnished sort of way as have I, you can no longer actually reach your […]
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