unfinished heart play (Rui is 7 years old – November 16, 2012)
November 16, 2012
Tag: Parental abduction
Spreading His Seat On the Floor
October 8, 2012
Dear Rui. This is your family. Today is my Mom’s birthday, October 7th. Your Grandmother, Lois. Lois Lurie Prager. You are Louis Prager. I named you in memory of her. That’s Mom and me, Rui. With your Uncles Neal and David. I think we’d moved to this new suburb in Dallas not long before. New … More Spreading His Seat On the Floor
Proserpina – Go Home Abducted Child
September 17, 2012
This post is about the abduction of Proserpina (Persephone to the Greeks), the grief of her parent Ceres, goddess of earth and agriculture, and the attempts by Zeus, the god of sky and thunder and the most powerful among the gods of Olympus, to save her. To bring fertility and a wife to Zeus’ barren … More Proserpina – Go Home Abducted Child
Hine Ma Tov
September 16, 2012
On Rosh Hashana, the New Year in autumn, I walked Rui down to East Broadway in New York to peer into the windows of the study houses where men with long gray beards and black caftans swayed over their books, like Roman Vishniac photographs come to life. There, down at the East River where “bubas” … More Hine Ma Tov
For Rui Boy 