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Date
IP Address
2013-04-17
72.233.2.59
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ClassC
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2026-02-16
192.0.78.25
(
ClassC
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Port 80
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Port 443
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ALS journal/div>/div>div classhr> /div> !-- because IE sucks at styling HRs -->div idheaderimg classclearfix> div idheader-overlay> /div> div idheader-image>img alt srchttps://alifestill.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/cropped-accessories-shawls_scarves.jpg />/div>/div> div classhr> /div>div idwrapper classclearfix> div idcontent classnarrowcolumn> !-- First Post --> div classtop post-1926 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-uncategorized tag-ibu tag-king-street idpost-1926> h2 classfirst>a hrefhttps://alifestill.com/2015/03/07/ally-launches-store/ relbookmark>ally.launches.store/a>/h2> •03/07/2015 • a hrefhttps://alifestill.com/2015/03/07/ally-launches-store/#comments>3 Comments/a> div classentry> p>a hrefhttps://alifestill.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/screen-shot-2015-03-07-at-9-43-35-pm.png>img data-attachment-id1927 data-permalinkhttps://alifestill.com/2015/03/07/ally-launches-store/screen-shot-2015-03-07-at-9-43-35-pm/ 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https://alifestill.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/screen-shot-2015-03-07-at-9-43-35-pm.png?w114&h150 114w, https://alifestill.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/screen-shot-2015-03-07-at-9-43-35-pm.png?w229&h300 229w sizes(max-width: 458px) 100vw, 458px />/a>Today, the doors opened wide. The warm brocade of March sun spilled in, and shoppers shopped. But mostly they celebrated with champagne and sangria and macaroons in hues of Marrakesh. The grand opening of ibu was also a birthday — nine months to the day from when Susan first saw this raw and beckoning space at 183 King Street./p>p>And now the renovation is complete, the shelves stocked with gorgeous global threads and beaded jewels from artisans of distant lands, and a business is born. This business of embracing beauty, of draping oneself in authenticity, of dressing in story and tradition. The business of “wearing the change.”/p>p>Oh yes, the change. Before she was a business owner and leader of the growing tribe of fans and customers whom she dubs her “ibu allies,” Susan was my ally in the journey that birthed this blog–our joint journey as daughters venturing through the foreign land of ALS. em>Wear the change. /em>/p>p>As those reading this know, A Life Still has been still for quite a while, all but retired after having done its job of giving us space to chronicle and reflect on our parents’ illnesses and, four times over, their eventual deaths. But in the interim, Susan has been anything but still, and far, far from stagnant. In creating and birthing ibu, she has woven together her father’s spiritual and intellectual depth with her mother’s passion for the tangible and stitched them with her own love of travel and writing, not to mention her simply fabulous sense of style, and here we are today, walking into a King Street storefront, a marketplace that makes a difference in women’s lives — both the women who created these goods and those of us lucky enough to wear them./p>p>Bill and Wylodine would have been so proud of their radiant ibu gal. A woman of substance (the definition of “ibu”), a woman who wears change more elegantly and boldly than anyone I know. An ally and artisan, a woman of the ever-changing cloth./p>p>The shop is open, folks. Much is in store. A life still. Artfully loaded shelves. A lot (of) silk. A luminous space. A lovely Susan./p>p>a hrefhttps://alifestill.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/ibu.jpg>img data-attachment-id1928 data-permalinkhttps://alifestill.com/2015/03/07/ally-launches-store/ibu/ data-orig-filehttps://alifestill.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/ibu.jpg data-orig-size480,640 data-comments-opened1 data-image-meta{"aperture":"2.4","credit":"","camera":"iPhone 4S","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1425497766","copyright":"","focal_length":"4.28","iso":"400","shutter_speed":"0.058823529411765","title":"","orientation":"0"} data-image-titleibu data-image-description data-image-caption data-medium-filehttps://alifestill.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/ibu.jpg?w225 data-large-filehttps://alifestill.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/ibu.jpg?w480 classaligncenter size-full wp-image-1928 srchttps://alifestill.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/ibu.jpg?w497 altibu srcsethttps://alifestill.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/ibu.jpg 480w, https://alifestill.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/ibu.jpg?w113&h150 113w, https://alifestill.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/ibu.jpg?w225&h300 225w sizes(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px />/a>/p>p> /p> p classpostmetadata>Posted in a hrefhttps://alifestill.com/category/uncategorized/ relcategory tag>Uncategorized/a> br />Tags: a hrefhttps://alifestill.com/tag/ibu/ reltag>ibu/a>, a hrefhttps://alifestill.com/tag/king-street/ reltag>King Street/a> /p> /div> /div> !-- Next few posts --> div classlastfive post-1912 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-uncategorized idpost-1912> h2>a hrefhttps://alifestill.com/2013/12/26/abandoning-the-last-suitcase/ relbookmark>abandoning. (the) last. suitcase./a>/h2> •12/26/2013 • a hrefhttps://alifestill.com/2013/12/26/abandoning-the-last-suitcase/#comments>8 Comments/a> div classentry> p styletext-align:left;>a hrefhttps://alifestill.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/img_0557.jpg>img data-attachment-id1917 data-permalinkhttps://alifestill.com/2013/12/26/abandoning-the-last-suitcase/img_0557/ data-orig-filehttps://alifestill.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/img_0557.jpg data-orig-size2069,2418 data-comments-opened1 data-image-meta{"aperture":"4.9","credit":"","camera":"Canon PowerShot SD1000","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1216084570","copyright":"","focal_length":"17.4","iso":"500","shutter_speed":"0.00625","title":""} data-image-titleIMG_0557 data-image-description data-image-caption data-medium-filehttps://alifestill.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/img_0557.jpg?w257 data-large-filehttps://alifestill.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/img_0557.jpg?w497 classaligncenter wp-image-1917 altIMG_0557 srchttps://alifestill.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/img_0557.jpg?w398&h464 width398 height464 srcsethttps://alifestill.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/img_0557.jpg?w398 398w, https://alifestill.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/img_0557.jpg?w796 796w, https://alifestill.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/img_0557.jpg?w128 128w, https://alifestill.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/img_0557.jpg?w257 257w, https://alifestill.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/img_0557.jpg?w768 768w sizes(max-width: 398px) 100vw, 398px />/a>/p>p>It was the last day of our trip together. My father’s luggage and mine leaned on the curb waiting to taxi to the airport, red and green as Christmas. Heading home./p>p>Five years ago, my father knew something was wrong with his wobbly legs, but he didn’t know that ALS had claimed them. He asked me to accompany him on a trip to Europe since my mother’s health was failing and my brother, on sabbatical leave with his family, had invited Dad to join them. Forty-five years earlier, we had all spent a sabbatical year in Goettingen, Germany, and so we returned to season some of that history and pass it on to the next generation. While we were on the continent, my father wanted to return to his favorite haunts in Switzerland and relish the beauty he had loved most in this world./p>p>a hrefhttps://alifestill.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/img_0357.jpg>img data-attachment-id1914 data-permalinkhttps://alifestill.com/2013/12/26/abandoning-the-last-suitcase/img_0357/ data-orig-filehttps://alifestill.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/img_0357.jpg data-orig-size3072,2304 data-comments-opened1 data-image-meta{"aperture":"8","credit":"","camera":"Canon PowerShot SD1000","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1215002891","copyright":"","focal_length":"5.8","iso":"80","shutter_speed":"0.00625","title":""} data-image-titleIMG_0357 data-image-description data-image-caption data-medium-filehttps://alifestill.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/img_0357.jpg?w300 data-large-filehttps://alifestill.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/img_0357.jpg?w497 classaligncenter size-large wp-image-1914 altIMG_0357 srchttps://alifestill.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/img_0357.jpg?w497&h372 width497 height372 srcsethttps://alifestill.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/img_0357.jpg?w497 497w, https://alifestill.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/img_0357.jpg?w994 994w, https://alifestill.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/img_0357.jpg?w150 150w, https://alifestill.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/img_0357.jpg?w300 300w, https://alifestill.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/img_0357.jpg?w768 768w sizes(max-width: 497px) 100vw, 497px />/a>/p>p>On the train between Lucerne and Munich, or somewhere in between, our relationship found a new equilibrium – no longer that of a father and daughter but of two pilgrims navigating life’s unpredictable road. He learned to lean on me, as once I had leaned on him. We learned to laugh at his tales of getting stuck on the floor of the train station after re-tying his shoe or getting stuck in the tub without the strength to rise. We learned to talk and risk saying what we meant and let the differences stand./p>p>Only a few days after our return, he was told that was to be his last trip. But not his last journey. Ahead was the completely uncharted path of dying, and living while dying./p>p>I decided to make a travel log of this final adventure, along with my dear friend, Stephanie, who was accompanying her mother on the gravelly road of ALS. We began this blog together, and I presented a note about it to my father as a Christmas gift, 2009. In it, I promised not to invade his privacy, detail medical conditions, or air family matters. I vowed not to try and interpret his experiences, but to reflect upon my own. I told him that while I knew the disease was thought to be dreadful and even cruel, I wanted to hold the possibility that light could yet be found in the days ahead. That I would be there for all of it, for the dreadful part, yes; but also for the ways it might change, shape, sharpen our living of these days; how it might endear us to this here and now. His eyes became wide, as though imagining for the first time the chapter ahead of him not a curse, but an adventurous conclusion to a rich life./p>p>This Christmas, we came to the end of that road. I have tried to be faithful to the practice I set up for myself, as he was certainly faithful to the adventure, opening himself each day to whatever life presented. Even opening himself, at last, to the kindness of death. Through these reflections, I held ordinary moments up to the light and found that they became prismatic. They lodged themselves in me with a certain staying kind of grace./p>p>Now it is time to let words stand still and hold the sounds of silence. Stephanie and I clinked glasses on Christmas Eve over a beautiful dinner, her daughters radiating their young loveliness around us. Her mother and my father no longer communing at this table of goodness./p>p>a hrefhttps://alifestill.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/img_3169.jpg>img data-attachment-id1918 data-permalinkhttps://alifestill.com/2013/12/26/abandoning-the-last-suitcase/img_3169/ data-orig-filehttps://alifestill.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/img_3169.jpg data-orig-size2777,2013 data-comments-opened1 data-image-meta{"aperture":"2.4","credit":"","camera":"iPhone 4S","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1387919145","copyright":"","focal_length":"4.28","iso":"800","shutter_speed":"0.066666666666667","title":"","latitude":"32.778366666667","longitude":"-79.868933333333"} data-image-titleIMG_3169 data-image-description data-image-caption data-medium-filehttps://alifestill.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/img_3169.jpg?w300 data-large-filehttps://alifestill.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/img_3169.jpg?w497 classaligncenter size-large wp-image-1918 altIMG_3169 srchttps://alifestill.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/img_3169.jpg?w497&h360 width497 height360 srcsethttps://alifestill.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/img_3169.jpg?w497 497w, https://alifestill.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/img_3169.jpg?w994 994w, https://alifestill.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/img_3169.jpg?w150 150w, https://alifestill.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/img_3169.jpg?w300 300w, https://alifestill.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/img_3169.jpg?w768 768w sizes(max-width: 497px) 100vw, 497px />/a>/p>p styletext-align:left;>But both of them alive in us, in a powerful, mangered way. Both of them still shaping our ever-widening capacity for joy, for life. Both of them, luggage shed, carried in our bones like a river of light. For, like all who are cherished in a living heart, theirs is/p>p styletext-align:center;>span styleline-height:1.5em;>A Life, Still. /span>/p>p>i> /i>/p>div idatatags-370373-699339966552d> script typetext/javascript> __ATA window.__ATA || {}; __ATA.cmd window.__ATA.cmd || ; __ATA.cmd.push(function() { __ATA.initVideoSlot(atatags-370373-699339966552d, { sectionId: 370373, format: inread }); }); /script> /div> p classpostmetadata>Posted in a hrefhttps://alifestill.com/category/uncategorized/ relcategory tag>Uncategorized/a> /p> /div> /div> div classlastfive post-1881 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-uncategorized idpost-1881> h2>a hrefhttps://alifestill.com/2013/12/14/adieu-leave-taking-salutations/ relbookmark>adieu. leave-taking. salutations./a>/h2> •12/14/2013 • a hrefhttps://alifestill.com/2013/12/14/adieu-leave-taking-salutations/#comments>9 Comments/a> div classentry> p styletext-align:center;>span stylecolor:#d4d4d4;>em>a hrefhttps://alifestill.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/sunset-sky-1.jpg>img data-attachment-id605 data-permalinkhttps://alifestill.com/2013/12/14/adieu-leave-taking-salutations/sunset-sky-1-2/ data-orig-filehttps://alifestill.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/sunset-sky-1.jpg data-orig-size480,344 data-comments-opened1 data-image-meta{"aperture":"4.5","credit":"","camera":"Canon PowerShot SD1000","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1252954689","copyright":"","focal_length":"14.421","iso":"160","shutter_speed":"0.008","title":""} data-image-titlesunset sky-1 data-image-description data-image-caption data-medium-filehttps://alifestill.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/sunset-sky-1.jpg?w300 data-large-filehttps://alifestill.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/sunset-sky-1.jpg?w480 loadinglazy classaligncenter size-full wp-image-605 altsunset sky-1 srchttps://alifestill.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/sunset-sky-1.jpg?w497 srcsethttps://alifestill.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/sunset-sky-1.jpg 480w, https://alifestill.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/sunset-sky-1.jpg?w150&h108 150w, https://alifestill.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/sunset-sky-1.jpg?w300&h215 300w sizes(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px />/a>/em>/span>/p>p styletext-align:center;>span stylecolor:#d4d4d4;>em>span stylecolor:#888888;>“At the hill’s foot Frodo found Aragorn, standing still and silent as a tree; but in his hand was a small golden bloom of elanor, and a light was in his eyes. He was wrapped in some fair memory: and as Frodo looked at him he knew that he beheld things as they had been in this same place. For the grim years were removed from the face of Aragorn, and he seemed clothed in white, a young lord fall and fair; and he spoke words in the Elvish tongue to one whom Frodo could not see. Arwen vanimelda, namarie! He said, and then he drew a breath, and returning out of his thought he looked at Frodo and smiled./span>/em>/span>/p>p styletext-align:left;>span stylecolor:#888888;>em>`Here is the heart of Elvendom on earth,’ he said, `and here my heart dwells ever, unless there be a light beyond the dark roads that we still must tread, you and I. Come with me!’ And taking Frodo’s hand in his, he left the hill of Cerin Amroth and came there never again as a living man.”br />/em>― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring/span>span stylecolor:#ffffff;>br />a hrefhttps://alifestill.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/img_1409.jpg>span stylecolor:#ffffff;>img data-attachment-id1882 data-permalinkhttps://alifestill.com/2013/12/14/adieu-leave-taking-salutations/img_1409/ data-orig-filehttps://alifestill.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/img_1409.jpg data-orig-size1781,1563 data-comments-opened1 data-image-meta{"aperture":"2.8","credit":"","camera":"Canon PowerShot SD1000","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1241209645","copyright":"","focal_length":"5.8","iso":"200","shutter_speed":"0.016666666666667","title":""} data-image-titleIMG_1409 data-image-description data-image-caption data-medium-filehttps://alifestill.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/img_1409.jpg?w300 data-large-filehttps://alifestill.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/img_1409.jpg?w497 loadinglazy classaligncenter size-large wp-image-1882 altIMG_1409 srchttps://alifestill.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/img_1409.jpg?w497&h436 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https://alifestill.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/img_0480.jpg?w768 768w sizes(max-width: 497px) 100vw, 497px />/p>p styletext-align:center;>Good-by to the life I used to live,br />And the world I used to know;br />And kiss the hills for me, just once;br />Now I am ready to go!/p>p styletext-align:center;>“Farewell” by Emily Dickinson/p>p styletext-align:center;>Memorial Servicebr />Monday, December 16 at 2:00br />Mountain Brook Baptist Churchbr />Birmingham, Alabama/p> p classpostmetadata>Posted in a hrefhttps://alifestill.com/category/uncategorized/ relcategory tag>Uncategorized/a> /p> /div> /div> div classlastfive post-1868 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-uncategorized idpost-1868> h2>a hrefhttps://alifestill.com/2013/12/11/a-life-symphony/ relbookmark>a. life. symphony./a>/h2> •12/11/2013 • a hrefhttps://alifestill.com/2013/12/11/a-life-symphony/#comments>34 Comments/a> div classentry> p>a hrefhttps://alifestill.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/5163_250.gif>img data-attachment-id1869 data-permalinkhttps://alifestill.com/2013/12/11/a-life-symphony/5163_250/ data-orig-filehttps://alifestill.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/5163_250.gif data-orig-size300,266 data-comments-opened1 data-image-meta{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":""} data-image-title5163_250 data-image-description data-image-caption data-medium-filehttps://alifestill.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/5163_250.gif?w300 data-large-filehttps://alifestill.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/5163_250.gif?w300 loadinglazy classaligncenter size-full wp-image-1869 alt5163_250 srchttps://alifestill.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/5163_250.gif?w497 srcsethttps://alifestill.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/5163_250.gif 300w, https://alifestill.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/5163_250.gif?w150&h133 150w sizes(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px />/a>/p>p>Andrew kept a certain dark suit aside. Yesterday, he dressed him in it. He dressed my father in the suit, and in a particular shirt he had given him, an elegant tie, and the eternity cufflinks that my father loved. Across my father’s legs, he laid the lap blanket I had woven for him./p>p>Andrew put on Beethoven’s 9th Symphony and let it pound through the house. My brother drove down, opened the door and entered the room as the chorus rose to it’s most joyful, i>Joyful/i>. There, in that room that had been home for the last five years, my father lay in peace./p>p>i>I don’t want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it, /i>said Diane Ackerman.i> I want to have lived the width of it as well. /i>/p>p>My father lived the length and the width, the height and the breadth of this life, I want to say. He lived every bright corridor and dark corner without bitterness or regret, but with a grateful spirit, with eyes that lit a room, with a presence that roared. He lived with the music of his mind, making of it a symphony of gladness and joy./p>p>And then, as we all are asked to do, he stepped aside. In the quiet of his sleep, breath stopped. Life went on. 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data-medium-filehttps://alifestill.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/img_0556.jpg?w300 data-large-filehttps://alifestill.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/img_0556.jpg?w497 loadinglazy classaligncenter size-large wp-image-1872 altIMG_0556 srchttps://alifestill.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/img_0556.jpg?w497&h372 width497 height372 srcsethttps://alifestill.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/img_0556.jpg?w497 497w, https://alifestill.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/img_0556.jpg?w994 994w, https://alifestill.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/img_0556.jpg?w150 150w, https://alifestill.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/img_0556.jpg?w300 300w, https://alifestill.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/img_0556.jpg?w768 768w sizes(max-width: 497px) 100vw, 497px />/a>/p>p styletext-align:center;>p styletext-align:center;>i>William Edward Hull, Jr.br />/i>i>May 28, 1930 – December 10, 2013 /i>/p> p classpostmetadata>Posted in a hrefhttps://alifestill.com/category/uncategorized/ relcategory tag>Uncategorized/a> /p> /div> /div> div classlastfive post-1863 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-uncategorized idpost-1863> h2>a hrefhttps://alifestill.com/2013/11/03/autumns-light-swimming/ relbookmark>autumn’s. light. swimming./a>/h2> •11/03/2013 • a hrefhttps://alifestill.com/2013/11/03/autumns-light-swimming/#comments>5 Comments/a> div classentry> blockquote>div langEN-US>div idygrp-mlmsg>div idygrp-msg>div idygrp-text>a hrefhttps://alifestill.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/img_2355.jpg>br />img data-attachment-id1864 data-permalinkhttps://alifestill.com/2013/11/03/autumns-light-swimming/img_2355/ data-orig-filehttps://alifestill.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/img_2355.jpg data-orig-size2322,2035 data-comments-opened1 data-image-meta{"aperture":"2.4","credit":"","camera":"iPhone 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100vw, 497px />/a>/div>div>/div>div>/div>div>A walk home in this afternoon light, holding my husband’s hand. Glory floats in the air; chimes chant the hour./div>div>/div>div>Calling my father from the early porch dark. More is lost, his world even smaller now. Closing in./div>div>/div>div>Packing to leave for Bangkok in the morning, for work, and life, and what I love. My world larger than ever with praise./div>div>/div>div>Going out. Going in. We move in two directions. Both swimming in the same light./div>div>/div>div>/div>div>/div>div>/div>div>this, to you, dear father, as I go on my way ~/div>div>div>/div>div styletext-align:center;>No, no, there is no going back.br />Less and less you arebr />that possibility you were.br />More and more you have becomebr />those lives and deathsbr />that have belonged to you.br />You have become a sort of gravebr />containing much that wasbr />and is no more in time, belovedbr />then, now, and always.br />And so you have become a sort of treebr />standing over the grave.br />Now more than ever you can bebr />generous toward each daybr />that comes, young, to disappearbr />forever, and yet remainbr />unaging in the mind.br />Every day you have less reasonbr />not to give yourself away.~ Wendell Berry ~/div>div styletext-align:center;>/div>div styletext-align:center;>(em>The Sabbath Poems, 1993, I/em>)/div>/div>/div>/div>/div>/blockquote> p classpostmetadata>Posted in a hrefhttps://alifestill.com/category/uncategorized/ relcategory tag>Uncategorized/a> /p> /div> /div> div classlastfive post-1859 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-uncategorized idpost-1859> h2>a hrefhttps://alifestill.com/2013/10/01/attire-lapels-of-splendor/ relbookmark>Attire: Lapels (of) Splendor/a>/h2> •10/01/2013 • a hrefhttps://alifestill.com/2013/10/01/attire-lapels-of-splendor/#comments>4 Comments/a> div classentry> p>a hrefhttps://alifestill.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/img_2255.jpg>img data-attachment-id1860 data-permalinkhttps://alifestill.com/2013/10/01/attire-lapels-of-splendor/img_2255/ data-orig-filehttps://alifestill.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/img_2255.jpg data-orig-size2204,2707 data-comments-opened1 data-image-meta{"aperture":"2.4","credit":"","camera":"iPhone 4S","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1380383556","copyright":"","focal_length":"4.28","iso":"50","shutter_speed":"0.0032258064516129","title":"","latitude":"36.114402777778","longitude":"-80.269744444444"} data-image-titleIMG_2255 data-image-description data-image-caption data-medium-filehttps://alifestill.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/img_2255.jpg?w244 data-large-filehttps://alifestill.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/img_2255.jpg?w497 loadinglazy classaligncenter size-large wp-image-1860 altIMG_2255 srchttps://alifestill.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/img_2255.jpg?w497&h610 width497 height610 srcsethttps://alifestill.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/img_2255.jpg?w497 497w, https://alifestill.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/img_2255.jpg?w994 994w, https://alifestill.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/img_2255.jpg?w122 122w, https://alifestill.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/img_2255.jpg?w244 244w, https://alifestill.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/img_2255.jpg?w768 768w, https://alifestill.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/img_2255.jpg?w834 834w sizes(max-width: 497px) 100vw, 497px />/a>/p>p>Twelve minutes before the wedding ceremony, my nephew Andrew emerged from a victorious Tennessee TV huddle – now a groom with a satisfied gleam behind his orange-rimmed sunglasses. He had waited for this: to show me what he had created out of the sari borders I gave him after my last trip to India. And there he was, striding up to me in sartorial splendor. Silk brocade that once floated through the lovely homes of Mumbai now fitted his lapels, lined his jacket, shaped itself even into a neck tie. He had envisioned it all, down to the Tennessee-orange socks, his own unique fusion of the Vols and the Vedic./p>p>After the ceremony, the lovely meal, a dance with my brother who had officiated the nuptials- I walked out on the sprawling lawn in the early light of evening and called my father who was so palpably i>not there. /i>My brother had ended the ceremony with my father’s words – ones the family knows by heart – and conjured his presence there in quiet benediction on the day. But now, as I heard my father on the other end of the phone, the golden tongue sounded disturbingly like a shovel chomping through gravel. I reported on the wedding, his son and grandson and great-grandson all taking their places in the circle of life. He tried to calm my fear about the chomping sound in his voice. I hung up and sat under the darkening sky./p>p>Inside, the dance music was really kicking in now. Bridesmaids were flinging off their heels. Andrew and Sarah did dips and swings to i>Luckenbach Texas/i> in their finery; he picked up the guitar and began to sing his own song. The littlest Hull pranced in the center of all the moving parts – at 10 months old he stole the floor./p>p>I watched the last light crawl down into the wooded distance. In the wide-open evening, the chilling air, there on the spongy grass, I felt the turning./p>p>The great wheel of life moved solidly on./p> p classpostmetadata>Posted in a hrefhttps://alifestill.com/category/uncategorized/ relcategory tag>Uncategorized/a> /p> /div> /div> div classlastfive post-1852 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-uncategorized idpost-1852> h2>a hrefhttps://alifestill.com/2013/08/21/anniversary-of-a-lasting-silence/ relbookmark>anniversary. (of a) lasting. silence./a>/h2> •08/21/2013 • a hrefhttps://alifestill.com/2013/08/21/anniversary-of-a-lasting-silence/#comments>10 Comments/a> div classentry> p>a hrefhttps://alifestill.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/img_6159.jpg>img data-attachment-id1853 data-permalinkhttps://alifestill.com/2013/08/21/anniversary-of-a-lasting-silence/img_6159/ data-orig-filehttps://alifestill.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/img_6159.jpg data-orig-size1911,1573 data-comments-opened1 data-image-meta{"aperture":"2.8","credit":"","camera":"Canon PowerShot SD1000","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1345556032","copyright":"","focal_length":"5.8","iso":"200","shutter_speed":"0.125","title":""} data-image-titleIMG_6159 data-image-description data-image-caption data-medium-filehttps://alifestill.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/img_6159.jpg?w300 data-large-filehttps://alifestill.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/img_6159.jpg?w497 loadinglazy classaligncenter size-large wp-image-1853 altIMG_6159 srchttps://alifestill.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/img_6159.jpg?w497&h409 width497 height409 srcsethttps://alifestill.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/img_6159.jpg?w497 497w, https://alifestill.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/img_6159.jpg?w994 994w, https://alifestill.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/img_6159.jpg?w150 150w, https://alifestill.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/img_6159.jpg?w300 300w, https://alifestill.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/img_6159.jpg?w768 768w sizes(max-width: 497px) 100vw, 497px />/a>/p>p>my dear father,/p>p>It has been a year, today, since you held Mother’s hand as her life slipped out of your reach. You have taken that empty hand, in the year since, and applied it to the pen, writing down to the the last word your 7th book in these five long years of crumbling health, calling it your last. That right hand is the only portion of your body that still can articulate itself, which I find a grace, for it delivers words which your tongue can not. Your fingers cannot make it up to the bridge of your nose to adjust your glasses, or across the plexiglass to turn a page of a book. But if a pen is laid across their crib, you still can press a word into the paper, like you pressed your aching heart into her hand./p>p>It is an amazement to see how much life is squeezed into what little you have left. When voice and movement and conversation are taken away, then, it seems, even more life comes flowing through the flesh of your palm. It ruffles the fur of a frisky friend, it strokes a baby’s leg, it empties the mind of its words onto paper, or sinks its feelings into another hand./p>p>When I think of all the channels still open to me – legs that can fly down my stairs, a voice that bellows in the car, hands that snap and clap – I feel as though a mighty river is over-running the sluices. And then I look at you, that one right hand left to carry all the force of being, and I am in wonder. How much it still has to say. How far it reaches. How deeply it has learned to love./p>p>always your daughter,br />remembering,/p>p>Susan/p> p classpostmetadata>Posted in a hrefhttps://alifestill.com/category/uncategorized/ relcategory tag>Uncategorized/a> /p> /div> /div> div classlastfive post-1842 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-uncategorized idpost-1842> h2>a hrefhttps://alifestill.com/2013/06/20/affiancing-lovely-sarah/ relbookmark>Affiancing. Lovely. Sarah./a>/h2> •06/20/2013 • a hrefhttps://alifestill.com/2013/06/20/affiancing-lovely-sarah/#comments>9 Comments/a> div classentry> p styletext-align:center;>a hrefhttps://alifestill.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/img_1302-2.jpg>img data-attachment-id1843 data-permalinkhttps://alifestill.com/2013/06/20/affiancing-lovely-sarah/img_1302-2/ data-orig-filehttps://alifestill.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/img_1302-2.jpg data-orig-size2030,3203 data-comments-opened1 data-image-meta{"aperture":"2.4","credit":"","camera":"iPhone 4S","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1365857351","copyright":"","focal_length":"4.28","iso":"80","shutter_speed":"0.05","title":"","latitude":"33.502","longitude":"-86.755333333333"} data-image-titleIMG_1302 2 data-image-description data-image-caption data-medium-filehttps://alifestill.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/img_1302-2.jpg?w190 data-large-filehttps://alifestill.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/img_1302-2.jpg?w497 loadinglazy classaligncenter wp-image-1843 altIMG_1302 2 srchttps://alifestill.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/img_1302-2.jpg?w398&h627 width398 height627 srcsethttps://alifestill.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/img_1302-2.jpg?w398 398w, https://alifestill.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/img_1302-2.jpg?w796 796w, https://alifestill.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/img_1302-2.jpg?w95 95w, https://alifestill.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/img_1302-2.jpg?w190 190w, https://alifestill.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/img_1302-2.jpg?w768 768w, https://alifestill.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/img_1302-2.jpg?w649 649w sizes(max-width: 398px) 100vw, 398px />/a>/p>p>i>I didn’t know you had it in you! /i> The neighbor’s daughter sprinted over to my father’s outdoor deck in her running clothes, a two year old perched on her hip, after hearing cooing and commotion coming from under the maple trees. She was laughing with my nephew, Andrew, with whom she played as a child on his occasional visit to his grandparents./p>p>Andrew – caregiver to my father, romancer of ladies of all ages who flock to his charms – is getting married. And I understand why. He has found the most luminous soul to orbit his sky. He has found Sarah, and finally stopped to look no more./p>p>This is not Sarah’s wedding dress I’m publishing, heaven forbid. I was lucky enough to be a part of her dress shopping day, along with her mother and sister and friends. But she stole my heart with her blushing bridal beauty, out-glaming herself with each new dress she slipped on./p>p>Since my father will not have the strength to make it to their North Carolina wedding in September, Andrew and Sarah brought the festivities to my father. On Sunday, both families gathered on my father’s deck to celebrate their engagement and commitment. Andrew’s first lady, blond dog Stella, sprawled out lazily in the thick of things, babies squirmed, Sarah’s grandfather led a charge, my father wheeled out and drank in the moment with a grin. i>I adore her,/i> he says of Sarah, forming the words emphatically with his recalcitrant tongue. She brings music to his house, tenderness to his day, grace to his grandson./p>p>I take my father’s hand and slowly reach it toward Stella’s fur, or place it gently on little Liam’s leg, his 8 month old great-grand. He cannot get there on his own, that long stretch of a few inches. He cannot wrap his arms around Sarah and welcome her into the family. But his heart is clear – that muscle moves toward her with joy./p>p>i>For better or for worse. In sickness and in health. /i>The words we daily live upon like the ground beneath us rise up in these moments with a crackling force. I think of what my father knows of these timeless words, knows them sixty years in the bones. He knows now both the better and the worse. Both the richer and the poorer. Both the sickness and the years of health. Marriage, his presence announces, loves and cherishes the i>all/i> of it. And now these two young ones are ready to walk into those words./p>p>Sarah bends to kiss my father’s face, where sadness also dwells. Love is there, just there, in his face, in her gesture, in the long path of a few inches. In the long road backward and forward sixty years each way. Love, even with a recalcitrant tongue, says Yes, Yes. To all of it. And would again, and will yet, over and over again./p>p styletext-align:center;>a hrefhttps://alifestill.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/img_1322.jpg>img data-attachment-id1844 data-permalinkhttps://alifestill.com/2013/06/20/affiancing-lovely-sarah/img_1322/ data-orig-filehttps://alifestill.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/img_1322.jpg data-orig-size3264,2448 data-comments-opened1 data-image-meta{"aperture":"2.4","credit":"","camera":"iPhone 4S","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1365936311","copyright":"","focal_length":"4.28","iso":"640","shutter_speed":"0.066666666666667","title":"","latitude":"33.447","longitude":"-86.777333333333"} data-image-titleIMG_1322 data-image-description data-image-caption data-medium-filehttps://alifestill.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/img_1322.jpg?w300 data-large-filehttps://alifestill.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/img_1322.jpg?w497 loadinglazy classaligncenter size-large wp-image-1844 altIMG_1322 srchttps://alifestill.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/img_1322.jpg?w497&h372 width497 height372 srcsethttps://alifestill.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/img_1322.jpg?w497 497w, https://alifestill.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/img_1322.jpg?w994 994w, https://alifestill.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/img_1322.jpg?w150 150w, https://alifestill.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/img_1322.jpg?w300 300w, https://alifestill.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/img_1322.jpg?w768 768w sizes(max-width: 497px) 100vw, 497px />/a>/p> p classpostmetadata>Posted in a hrefhttps://alifestill.com/category/uncategorized/ relcategory tag>Uncategorized/a> /p> /div> /div> div classlastfive post-1838 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-uncategorized idpost-1838> h2>a hrefhttps://alifestill.com/2013/05/27/advancing-like-a-soldier/ relbookmark>advancing. like. (a) soldier./a>/h2> •05/27/2013 • a hrefhttps://alifestill.com/2013/05/27/advancing-like-a-soldier/#comments>4 Comments/a> div classentry> p>a hrefhttps://alifestill.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/img_0659.jpg>img data-attachment-id1839 data-permalinkhttps://alifestill.com/2013/05/27/advancing-like-a-soldier/img_0659/ data-orig-filehttps://alifestill.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/img_0659.jpg data-orig-size2592,1936 data-comments-opened1 data-image-meta{"aperture":"2.4","credit":"","camera":"iPad mini","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1364463844","copyright":"","focal_length":"3.3","iso":"32","shutter_speed":"0.00094876660341556","title":""} data-image-titleIMG_0659 data-image-description data-image-caption data-medium-filehttps://alifestill.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/img_0659.jpg?w300 data-large-filehttps://alifestill.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/img_0659.jpg?w497 loadinglazy classaligncenter size-large wp-image-1839 altIMG_0659 srchttps://alifestill.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/img_0659.jpg?w497&h371 width497 height371 srcsethttps://alifestill.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/img_0659.jpg?w497 497w, https://alifestill.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/img_0659.jpg?w994 994w, https://alifestill.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/img_0659.jpg?w150 150w, https://alifestill.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/img_0659.jpg?w300 300w, https://alifestill.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/img_0659.jpg?w768 768w sizes(max-width: 497px) 100vw, 497px />/a>/p>p>Decoration Day they called it here in the South, and did so in Appalachia even i>before/i> the Civil War – a time for families to gather at cemeteries and honor the dead; later, it evolved into a Memorial Day for those who died in service. Yet, here I am on my porch on a breezy beauty of a Memorial Day, thinking of one who has not died; one whose service in the battle continues. My father’s birthday is tomorrow, and that seems somehow also heroic, a day worthy of decoration./p>p>Doctors looked at my father plainly, five years ago, and said i>you have three to five years to live./i> Yet onward he marches past their predictions, not on legs, but on the mental stamina of a soldier. Through the fields of lost limbs, the trenches of what must sometimes be despair, through the long dark, tented nights, he marches on with an even temper, a disciplined and grateful heart, a humor that dismisses decorations, laughing as he can. His tour of duty is not yet done./p>p>This past week, his well-loved first cousin, Robert Hull, fell ill and died. Younger by a few years and a loyal friend, Robert and Doris drove me to the airport when I came to visit, brought love and meals, tended my parents with a kindness perhaps known only to those also crippled by pain, as was Robert. A surprise, still, for my father to wheel into his friend’s Memorial Service, and struggle, as he does now, to hold his head aloft, while another of his anchors unmoors and drifts from shore./p>p>Today, wreathes are added to graves. Bunting is draped from windows. The dead are joined and remembered./p>p>And tomorrow, my father will march on through another birthday; decorated, as always, with a faithful heart for all whom he has loved, an unstoppable hope for the world he cannot save, and a love that, through all battles, mightily endures./p> p classpostmetadata>Posted in a hrefhttps://alifestill.com/category/uncategorized/ relcategory tag>Uncategorized/a> /p> /div> /div> div classlastfive post-1830 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-uncategorized idpost-1830> h2>a hrefhttps://alifestill.com/2013/04/07/at-the-lake-skiing/ relbookmark>at. (the) lake. skiing./a>/h2> •04/07/2013 • a hrefhttps://alifestill.com/2013/04/07/at-the-lake-skiing/#comments>8 Comments/a> div classentry> p>a hrefhttps://alifestill.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/water-skiing-4.jpg>img data-attachment-id1831 data-permalinkhttps://alifestill.com/2013/04/07/at-the-lake-skiing/water-skiing-4/ data-orig-filehttps://alifestill.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/water-skiing-4.jpg data-orig-size400,300 data-comments-opened1 data-image-meta{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":""} data-image-titlewater-skiing-4 data-image-description data-image-caption data-medium-filehttps://alifestill.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/water-skiing-4.jpg?w300 data-large-filehttps://alifestill.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/water-skiing-4.jpg?w400 loadinglazy classaligncenter size-full wp-image-1831 altwater-skiing-4 srchttps://alifestill.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/water-skiing-4.jpg?w497 srcsethttps://alifestill.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/water-skiing-4.jpg 400w, https://alifestill.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/water-skiing-4.jpg?w150&h113 150w, https://alifestill.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/water-skiing-4.jpg?w300&h225 300w sizes(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px />/a>/p>p>Duke and Marguerite took us water-skiing on Kentucky’s Cumberland Lake, where, as a child, I watched my father rise from the wake and rule the waters, my shivering hand waving through the spray from my plump orange vest. After dinner at Duke and Marguerite’s house, I played Kick the Can with their older, crush-inducing sons, and caught fireflies in the dark. When Mother went in the hospital, my brother and I were invited for dinner in their palatial home. I dressed in a best frilly dress, David in a coat and clip tie, and we held hands to knock at their tall imposing doors./p>p>Duke was my father’s boss, mentor, colleague, and finally, always, friend. He died this week at the age of 98./p>p>Separated for years after their teamwork as President and Provost of a seminary, they still found their way toward each other in yearly meetings, voluminous correspondence, intellectual pursuits. After my father’s diagnosis five years ago, Duke was too old to travel, and my father no longer enjoyed the freedom of the road; they simply couldn’t see each other for a final gathering up of their shared life. So, Duke took to calling once a week. Even after my father’s voice gave out, Duke called to talk to Mother, and let his voice reach over the phone and grab my father by the shoulder in an embrace./p>p>I wonder how my father takes this loss into himself. So many of his lifelong friends have now gone on, leaving him here to witness their lives as a whole. The ones to whom he might have whispered doubts or fears, or conjured the past, or sighed about what is gone. Grady, John, Tom, Duke, not to mention his dear wife of sixty years. Others he loves are far away, and no longer able to travel, and the phone is a weak link for one who cannot speak./p>p>I think that we all long for a witness to our lives. Marriage does that, offers a lens which makes it possible,i> /i>as Rilke put it, i>for each to see the other whole against the sky/i>. Friendship that endures does that. Gives the gift of seeing your life whole, flawed and unfinished, but somehow complete. It is a gift, indeed: to be not alone in knowing ourselves, but to be seen, beginning and end, and in that seeing, loved./p>p>So, I wonder what it is like to lose your witnesses. Difficult, I am wagering. And so I write to my father, in hearing of Duke’s death: i>I will be your witness/i>. Younger, yes, and not carrying the whole of you, and yet, I can witness you witnessing your friends – the arc of their lives, rising from the wake and ruling the waters, and then sinking back into their depths. I can do that. And remember with you. The fireflies caught. The dinners blessed. The night skies./p> p classpostmetadata>Posted in a hrefhttps://alifestill.com/category/uncategorized/ relcategory tag>Uncategorized/a> /p> /div> /div> div classnavigation clearfix> div classleft>a hrefhttps://alifestill.com/page/2/ >span>«/span> Previous Entries/a>/div> div classright>/div> div classclear>/div> /div> /div> div idsidebar> div idtext-3 classwidget widget_text>h3>About our blog/h3> div classtextwidget>Susan and Stephanie, friends for 17 years, got the same news within months. Susan’s father and Stephanie’s mother have been diagnosed with A.L.S. Lou Gehrig’s disease progressively stills a life – muscles cease to work, speech fails, the body withers – while the mind and spirit seem to brighten in intensity. This is a journal of two women, both divinity school graduates, both living in Charleston, SC, both, at heart, writers, speaking into the Silence which grows around them. 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