Category Archives: Reflections

Coming up on 8:08 08/08/08

By Frank Paynter | Published: August 8, 2008

Eight minutes from now… think I’ll pour another cuppa and retire to the reading room to make it most memorable.

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Time and the airbrush removed

By Frank Paynter | Published: May 2, 2008

Time and the airbrush removed reality from the photo I carry in my wallet, a portrait rescued from a box of family memorabilia, a picture to remind me of you.

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“Relax”

By Frank Paynter | Published: March 31, 2008
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Thoughts on Rejecting the DAR Award

By Frank Paynter | Published: February 1, 2008

Decades ago, as a high school student in a privileged, white USian community, I was proud to observe young women rejecting scholarship awards from the Daughters of the American Revolution. The awards then, I think, were reserved for those who were actual descendants of Revolutionary War veterans, and the organization itself was known as a [...]

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Sympathy for the family and friends of Joshua Beasley

By Frank Paynter | Published: January 25, 2008

I can not imagine the grief you feel. But I read that it’s important to say his name to each other, to inform and remind ourselves that he really was alive, to listen to our own feelings and acknowledge the feelings of others, and to some day accept his passing and to remember him as [...]

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Child as Object

By Frank Paynter | Published: January 17, 2008

There once was a woman who swapped me out for my academic adviser. I subsequently dropped out of grad school and went to San Francisco where I sat on the floor at Winterland with Hells Angels and hippies crumbling hash into tobacco and hand rolling some fairly potent cigarettes to share while we immersed ourselves [...]

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Thanks Kelli

By Frank Paynter | Published: January 8, 2008

It’s not about politics. But it’s about people. (… thanks to Bill for passing along the link)

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Progress on the path

By Frank Paynter | Published: December 11, 2007

We have two sons and we are very proud of both of them. But in this blog I seem to write much more about Ben than about Matt. That’s natural, because Ben is a writer, so when he publishes something I often link to it. This post is about Matt, a man on a very [...]

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