Fluidity And Discontinuity Are Central To The

When Parents Die, All Of The Partings Of The Past Are Reevoked With The Realization That This Time They Will Not Return.

Learning To Savor The Vertigo Of Doing Without Answers Or Making Do With Fragmentary Ones Opens Up The Pleasures Of Recognizing And Playing With Patterns, Finding Coherence Within Complexity, Sharing Within Multiplicity.

Improvisation Can Be Either A Last Resort Or An Established Way Of Evoking Creativity.

The Timing Of Death, Like The Ending Of A Story, Gives A Changed Meaning To What Preceded It.

...a Disgruntled Reflection On My Own Life As A Sort Of Desperate Improvisation In Which I Was Constantly Trying To Make Something Coherent From Conflicting Elements To Fit Rapidly Changing Settings.