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Generation, daily reflection April 11

Generation: because the act of writing about my alcoholism turns out to be the act of writing about my father’s alcoholism, and recovery from my addiction is actually a recovery from his. They say that.  That alcoholism is a family disease.  Give or take genetic tendencies, we are who we are because we are what …

April 11, 2012 – 4:56 am | By Karin L Burke | Posted in reflections | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (0)

Daddy

I did not want to apologize to my father.  I do not like my father.  Still, I am vaguely aware that coming to terms with my relationship with him  has something to do with sobriety.  With happiness or forgiveness or god.  But if I ever have to use a word like hate, my father is …

November 18, 2011 – 11:51 am | By Karin L Burke | Posted in reflections | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (0)

How it works, daily reflection

I don’t even know how a telephone works.  How your voice reached all the way from Alexandria, broke into shards and vibrations across satellites and radio and air – thin air – and comes back to me, returned and transformed. I don’t understand the patience that takes. Or anything about space time.  Only that it …

November 3, 2011 – 8:49 pm | By Karin L Burke | Posted in reflections | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (0)