Harrowings

Harrowings

The Thing Is….

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Hal Gill
Aug 14, 2025
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As I got settled a little late at Emissary Pergamino for the fourth “Office Hours” here on 20th Street NW between R and S Streets NW, I saw that Ginger Gaines-Cirelli—officiant at my marriage to Lynn on May 3, 2008—had posted this:

“The Thing Is”

to love life, to love it even

when you have no stomach for it

and everything you've held dear

crumbles like burnt…

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