Had I Served You Coffee
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Happy Birthday, Father! / Twenty-one days with my Father – 2026
On this day, 1937, you dedicated this picture to a friend. In your words: Today I wish to show my affection with this small souvenir on my birthday… In secret, your father bought you a suit, and took you to a photographer to celebrate your sixth birthday. Happy Birthday, my dear Father!
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writer’s blood / Twenty-one days with my Father – 2026
Soon I will tell you about conceptual art — a view point within the expression and content of different art forms in the way an audience is to read the art piece, and the focus of what the producer of the piece intends to convey. Not that harmony and rhythm in a conceptual piano composition…
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in conversation / Twenty-one days with my Father – 2026
The most irrelevant question I am unable to ask has bearings on your whereabouts. The natural state of being in conversation with you is nothing more than said irrelevance itself. Writing to you, not about you, is the essence of my undertaking. Neither do I intend to comprehend what is real, much less aim to…
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You never wore a hat / Twenty-one days with my Father – 2026
Did you know that wearing a hat distorts the way an individual hears?You never wore one. I dare to contextualize this oddity with your ability to listen well, and being one with pure ways of perception. Had I Served You Coffee — in process, content, notes
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blasphemous crossings / Twenty-one days with my Father – 2026
as a child I asked myselfas an adult I continue to asksomehow, somewhy, never did I utter the ask towards youand yet, I wonder boxers enter the ring, and cross themselvesafter fifteen or merely three rounds, the victors cross themselves ready to take the mound, the pitcher will cross himselfthe batter connects, it is out…
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My Garden / Twenty-one days with my Father – 2026
For our family, the early 1980s was a vibrant period, with challenges, drastic changes, and joys. It led to my apostasy, and brought your first cancer diagnosis but we celebrated your silver wedding anniversary. This presented me with the opportunity to offer an expression of gratitude, admiration, and recognition, in composing “My Garden” to honor…
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A genesis of writing sufficiently to call it a book / Twenty-one days with my Father – 2026
The very first spark was to honor the unique human I was gifted for a father, along with a profound desire to demonstrate the insurmountable essences of love which I know through you, by planting an appreciation garden. Almost instantly, after that initial spark, my artistic spine begged to participate. Hence, before writing a single…
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Father, Double / Twenty-one days with my Father – 2026
In circles of families and friends around the globe, individuals have their pastors, priests, rabbis. To these they listen in their respective places of worship, and refer to them explicitly as such whenever in direct conversation with them. I can only speak of personal experience, and obviously can not speak for the many thousands of…
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Had I’s (II) / Twenty-one days with my Father – 2026
Had I been able to ride along the beach on a striped light grayish cream horseback, and look to my right to see you on a white one, your face reflecting the joy over my joy while the sun rises after a long night of conversation. Had I served you coffee after our return… Had…
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father language / Twenty-one days with my Father – 2026
the well from which one learns to express the selfprimary articulation styleproviding the shape of what one utters in wordsis the native languagethe native tonguein German, Muttersprachemother languagemine is a father language Had I Served You Coffee — in process, content, notes
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A Quarter of a Century ago / Twenty-one days with my Father – 2026
Tears are an internal mode of the moment. Only a sort of permission by the touched one, or a certain point of needing a release, or of wanting to sense, or express weakness, or fragility, or fragile strength, will water the eyes to the point that tears reach the cheeks, perhaps the jaws. Tears need…
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Had I’s / Twenty-one days with my Father – 2026
Had I been able to dance just once on the same dance floor with you apart Had we had more cries together Had I let a record play with a symphony by Gustav Mahler while you were in the same room Had I Served You Coffee — in process, content, notes
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Paradise / Twenty-one days with my Father – 2026
This is not to be a linear and logical depiction of love between father and son. Rather a son concretizing through emotional and intellectual hunger the fruits of mountains, rivers and oceans in the paradise he has become. Had I Served You Coffee — in process, content, notes
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the fervor within / Twenty-one days with my Father – 2026
It is not religion, not god that made you a good man but a fervor deep within. In Sunset Limited, the 2011 film directed by Tommy Lee Jones, White (Jones) and Black (Samuel L. Jackson) have an existential debate, after White attempted suicide, and Black prevented him from being successful at it. Black alludes to…
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a short love dissection / Twenty-one days with my Father – 2026
Tears flow from love Smiles widen through love Laughing erupts out of love Silence spreads in u-turned love Perseverance lives love Countenance dresses love, if it manages not to mask love Had I Served You Coffee — in process, content, notes
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