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    Berlin's Adequate "Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe"

    JULY 18, 2012 2:31AM

    By Eric Garcia-McKinley


    Topics: news, rastatt, richard brody, the new yorker, memorialization, memorials, shoah, the holocaust, berlin, history, jewish history, memorial to the murdered jews of europe, museum, germany, memory

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    • 39 Ratings
    • 1779 Views
    • 44 Comments
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    Layers of Memory

    FEBRUARY 24, 2012 9:00AM

    By Gary Justis


    Topics: environment, design, compositions of thought images, memory pots visual records, processes of thought, function, utility, time, memory, images

    • Editor's Pick
    • 115 Ratings
    • 5678 Views
    • 128 Comments
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    Found

    JANUARY 19, 2012 12:14AM

    By Greg Correll


    Topics: parkinson's, memory, tremors, oneness, beauty, truth, the strange and terrible world, we are a puff of breath is all

    • Editor's Pick
    • 5 Ratings
    • 1124 Views
    • 9 Comments
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    Grandfather frost, 3 sheets to the wind

    DECEMBER 13, 2011 8:44PM

    By takingadvice


    Topics: new year's eve, new year, memory, childhood, russia, celebration, drinking, holidays, christmas, open salon, the truth about santa

    • Editor's Pick
    • 35 Ratings
    • 1641 Views
    • 27 Comments
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    grip foot

    SEPTEMBER 30, 2011 11:33AM

    By Greg Correll


    Topics: memory, slap, punch, belt, abuse, the beauty of late summer, the sensation of feet pulling grass

    • Editor's Pick
    • 18 Ratings
    • 1740 Views
    • 24 Comments
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    Ach! Rugelach.

    AUGUST 8, 2011 9:29PM

    By Vivian Henoch


    Topics: baking, jewish pastry, rugelach, family, memory, joan nathan, smitten kitchen, food, photography, vitamix, foodie tuesday

    • Editor's Pick
    • 9 Ratings
    • 1263 Views
    • 17 Comments
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    Like I Said (A Dementia Vignette)

    JULY 13, 2011 2:09PM

    By JoAnne Lehman


    Topics: memory, comedy, family, memoir, caregiving, alzheimer's, aging, elderly parents, dementia, open+call

    • Editor's Pick
    • 22 Ratings
    • 1229 Views
    • 29 Comments
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    Timeless

    JULY 18, 2011 10:31AM

    By Gary Justis


    Topics: fixed moments, the eternal, ideas, art, memory

    • Editor's Pick
    • 36 Ratings
    • 1621 Views
    • 42 Comments
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    Past Perfect

    JUNE 5, 2011 1:00PM

    By Nikki Stern


    Topics: old friends, the past, e-mail, memoir, memory

    • Editor's Pick
    • 11 Ratings
    • 867 Views
    • 9 Comments
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    Two Tons of Granite

    MAY 6, 2011 9:58AM

    By Backsight Forethought


    Topics: family, ohio, memory, war

    • Editor's Pick
    • 25 Ratings
    • 2503 Views
    • 31 Comments
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    The Weight Is A Gift: The Sculpture of Emily Smith

    APRIL 25, 2011 8:40AM

    By Gary Justis


    Topics: art, ideas, memory, master's thesis, visual art, sculpture and memory, dysfunction inquiry, politics, family, fashion, health, belief/religion

    • Editor's Pick
    • 53 Ratings
    • 1827 Views
    • 53 Comments
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    Outside the Boxes

    MARCH 29, 2011 9:41PM

    By Nikki Stern


    Topics: packing, moving, memory, women, stories, life

    • Editor's Pick
    • 18 Ratings
    • 2147 Views
    • 23 Comments
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    I Said Dead

    MARCH 16, 2011 9:36AM

    By Adina Giannelli


    Topics: mourning, grief, passing, identity, elton john, france, inca trail, cozumel, memory, jews, loss, grief, death, talya

    • Editor's Pick
    • 15 Ratings
    • 2610 Views
    • 14 Comments
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    The Ghost in My Quilt

    MARCH 15, 2011 4:57PM

    By Zoe FitzGerald Carter


    Topics: open call, zoe fitzgerald carter, imperfect endings, quilt, vermont, memoir, memory, suicide, assisted suicide, death, sister, mother

    • Editor's Pick
    • 10 Ratings
    • 1885 Views
    • 20 Comments
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    The German Helmet

    DECEMBER 10, 2010 7:51AM

    By Jim Ohio


    Topics: war, ww11, history, veterans, conflict, memory, family

    • Editor's Pick
    • 20 Ratings
    • 1280 Views
    • 19 Comments
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    Family Picture

    AUGUST 17, 2010 10:33PM

    By robyn mcintyre


    Topics: personal memoir, childhood, memory, pedophile, child abuse, family

    • Editor's Pick
    • 15 Ratings
    • 2777 Views
    • 26 Comments
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    The Story of My Life - Time for a Rewrite?

    JULY 6, 2010 11:56PM

    By David Kinne


    Topics: evidence, conflicting, rewrite, experience, memory, extraordinary, love, life

    • Editor's Pick
    • 17 Ratings
    • 1552 Views
    • 32 Comments
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    Tick Tock Kitty Time

    JUNE 30, 2010 11:35AM

    By Anna Voy


    Topics: cats, pet, childhood, lake, true story, memory, snakes, funny, humor, animals, comedy

    • Editor's Pick
    • 33 Ratings
    • 1936 Views
    • 52 Comments
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    A Geezer Manifesto

    FEBRUARY 25, 2010 12:30AM

    By Jeff Brawer


    Topics: humor, health, codgers, thunderbird, beard, whiskers, thermostat, whale pants, turn siganls, eyebrows, boogers, deference, memory, cataracts, wrinkles, entitlement, dotage, stanley cup, bruins, grim reaper, old age, aging, geezer

    • Editor's Pick
    • 15 Ratings
    • 5162 Views
    • 22 Comments
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    My journey to Lhasa

    JULY 20, 2009 10:52AM

    By doloresflores_d


    Topics: where are you patrick wallace of quebec, spitters will be ticketed, don't forget not to bring any corpses in your luggage, sepha, josie ortez, josephine ortez, dakinidancer, tibet, travel, memorial, birthday, mortality, memory, alexandra david-neel, feminists, travelers, religious pilgrims, love, adventure, filthy vacations, everyone needs autobiographical stories that reminds us of our ability to be brave

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