An excerpt from the acclaimed book Tragic Magic: The Life of Traffic’s Chris Wood by Dan Ropek CHAPTER 25 - THE BEGINNING OF THE END There is no light without shadow and no psychic wholeness without imperfection. To round itself out, life calls not for perfection but completeness; and for…
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IV: I THINK WE WOULD KNOW IF THE BED WAS ON FIRE: MY PARENTS’ GENERATION
From: Put It On The Windowsill: An Italian-American Family Memoir by Marcia Brennan. The Shoe-Make Nannie’s seven children were all born at home. Six of the children lived well into adulthood, and five lived either just shy of, or well past, their 80th birthdays. The first five children were born…
III: YOU COULD EAT OFF THE FLOOR: HOW MY GRANDPARENTS CREATED A WORLD, AND HOW THEY TOOK THAT WORLD WITH THEM, WHEREVER THEY WENT
From: Put It On The Windowsill: An Italian-American Family Memoir by Marcia Brennan. Unless you somehow had inside access to this culture, you could never fully know what it meant to live in a twentieth-century, Italian-American home. Many of the people who lived in this world began with almost nothing,…
II. BOTH ITALIAN AND AMERICAN: MULTIPLE LIVES IN MULTIPLE WORLDS
From: Put It On The Windowsill: An Italian-American Family Memoir by Marcia Brennan. See – She Knows! My grandmother’s full name was Maria Concetta Nesta Gagliardi, but everyone always called her Nannie. Nannie’s mother was three years old when her family came to the United States from the Avellino Provence,…
I: THREE WAYS OF APPROACHING A WINDOWSILL: THE MULTIPLE LIVES OF THE STORIES
From: Put It On The Windowsill: An Italian-American Family Memoir by Marcia Brennan. If You Want Good Weather… Even though this book is about my extended Italian-American family, I will begin with a story from the Irish side of the family. I am the oldest of two daughters. On the…