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I bought this retablo in Santa Fe, New Mexico in the Spring of 1990. It was painted by Irene Martinez. It is somewhat battered as I could not pack it properly and carried it by hand on the train all the way from Santa Fe to Boston. It has hung in both my apartments in Cambridge, my mother's house in Wellesley and now in my apartment in Framingham, MA.

Snow on Main Street

Snow on Main Street a photo by Barbara L. Slavin on Flickr.

My Flickr page in qr code

Reading out loud.

Reading out loud.
Originally uploaded by Barbara L. Slavin

Luxembourg Gardens in Paris on May 18, 2010.

The Tailor

The Tailor
Originally uploaded by Diogo Martins (Ending MSc...)

"He was not the same man.  Or, he was more than one man, or woman.  Maybe the months of practice--of travel and loneliness, of clothing sewn and artifacts deposited behind glass cases, of being lost in the marrow of lives imagined and relived-had made Berman into what he now was: mourner and storyteller, history's tinker, dancer and servant.  Rabbi and teacher.  Taking on the voices and the lives of the deceased who will never, ever appear in any book-not even this one-Alexandr Davidowich had, in voice and movement, become many people.  He was what he was, so who was I to interfere?  Who was I to break his concentration?  Who was I to say, stop!"

Rudner, Lawrence Sheldon.  Memory's Tailor.  Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1998.(note to self, page 290)