Download e-book for kindle: Marrying George Clooney: Confessions from a Midlife Crisis by Amy Ferris

By Amy Ferris

ISBN-10: 1580052975

ISBN-13: 9781580052979

Whereas awake in the course of the evening (welcome to menopause!), Amy Ferris begun chronicling each of her humorous, unhappy, hysterical, down and soiled, and uncooked to the bones tales. in addition to fantasizing approximately marrying George Clooney, Ferris is confronted with a plethora of different insomnia-induced concepts and actions. From googling previous boyfriends to gaining knowledge of vague and deadly illnesses on the net; from scouting five-star spa locations to having indignant, sour, electronic mail exchanges along with her brother. She concerns perpetually approximately her husband, is predicated seriously on Ambien, and attempts to rearrange care through the net for her mom (who has either critical dementia and an enormous love-bubble weigh down on Jesus Christ)-all whereas refraining from lighting fixtures up only one extra cigarette. Marrying George Clooney explores a variety of feelings skilled via this life-altering interval. during this candid examine "the change," Ferris deals a funny spin on a not-so-funny subject.

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Presently people began to congregate in the high center of the cemetery’s ridge, where, on this warm, sunny day, dogwood trees provided a little shade and low retaining walls provided places to sit. The service was about to begin. A man with a shaven head, a blue shirt, dark pants, and a tie was circulating and greeting people. Karen and I simultaneously intuited that he would be the preacher this morning, so she began taking photographs of him. At some point he spoke with her, and she described our project and explained that we would be documenting the event.

Several people described using their thumb to stretch crepe paper so that it resembled a petal. The paper flowers were affixed to wires or sticks that served as artificial stalks, then dipped in paraffin to make them rain resistant. Finally the flowers were thrust into the soft dirt of the mounds, as if growing from the grave, or otherwise distributed around the gravesite. To add to the natural appearance, some were laid against or close to the ground, while others stood erect a distance above the ground (Figures 2-10, 2-11).

Thus, in addition to its practical justifications, mounding is practiced for reasons of custom and aesthetics — it seems proper, and it is beautiful and moving to people accustomed to it. In short, mounding is both a practical expedient at the time of burial and an annual ritual of renewed devotion. As a ritual, mounding invites our deeper contemplation. We can describe the practice at four levels of meaning, all of which are simultaneously operative. At the simplest level, mounding distinguishes the grave from the surrounding neutral ground of the cemetery.

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