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...notice its heft--almost 900 pages, if you count notes and acknowledgments. He might shrug, smile mischievously and say something like, "Gee, these editors must have had too much time on their hands to spend so much of it collecting my letters." Lifting the book, I thought about the weight of a life. We leave imprints of ourselves on this earth: memories, relationships, accomplishments as well as mistakes. All have weight. So do letters; they mark the paths between human beings...
...weight of my father's life in letters is heavy, but the lightness of his spirit and the easy way of his heart are evident throughout. In a letter addressed to me when I was still a baby, he wrote, "There were no 'Northern Lights' last night but there was a big moon and a sky full of stars shining down on the glaciers and snow covered peaks. It was a beautiful night with a constant breeze that seems to come from out among the stars and it seems at times that if you listen very carefully it will whisper...
...parents to watch out for your needs, and although your proctor or entryway tutor may throw good study breaks, you need to make sure you eat, sleep and take care of yourself in our collegiate forest. College is not only about autonomous living, but also about learning how much weight you can carry. Self-sufficiency does not mean taking all the extra group gear or heaping on the extracurriculars. It is about knowing your limits and bearing the weight that you can handle—no more and no less...
...haven’t drastically changed the way I dress or gained or lost any weight. No, I’ve just cut my hair. For the first time in as long as I can remember, I can’t pull my hair back into a ponytail. I can’t even use barrettes. Now I’ve got the same hairstyle as my little brother. Boy short. It’s so short that a rushed airplane security guard took one glance and thought...
Much has been made of the fact that Redd has lost around 60 pounds since last fall. (She first began a weight-loss push in her senior year, walking into Leizer’s spinning class in Martinsville in anticipation of appearing in Glamour.) After all, how purportedly feminist can a pageant be if you have to fit that societal mold of thinness? She scorns these criticisms, even listing the weight loss as her “greatest achievement” in the pageant magazine...