Mysterious lessons

James Dean’s Mother

11 November 2010
Madhuri
Categories: Dreams, Family, History, Mysterious lessons

I found a bio of James Dean at a garage sale for a quarter. When I travel I like to take incidental-looking little paperbacks, old or thin or otherwise disposable-looking; then I can discard them when I’m done, or, if they turn out to be good, give them away to…

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A Particular Silence

6 August 2009
Madhuri
Categories: History, Mysterious lessons, Travel

One evening two thousand of us sat with folded legs on cushions in a vast oval hall with a marble floor and walls of mosquito netting. High overhead arched a roof made of tough fabric supported by metal beams. The tropic darkness clung closely to the structure, but we sat…

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