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THE INTERMISSION 7/9/06 Like all good performances, designing The House (and designing a life), sometimes takes a break. Day-to-day life creeps in, no matter how much you try to avoid it – and proceed in spite of it. There are dishes to wash, bathrooms to clean, laundry to do, depositions to take, hearings to attend, and [...] THE FAMILY ROOM Hands down, this has been the most frustrating room to tackle. No matter what I did, it was just like I couldn’t make this room work. It was big, really big, and totally empty. A beautiful red brick fireplace showcased the back wall – that just had to be the focal point. In [...] Anita and I agreed early on to base our marriage on growing together. That meant a lot of communicating, sacrificing for the other person and making all decisions together. I used to describe it like we were two trees next to each other. We could grow separately without consideration of the other, but eventually there [...] Yesterday I was cleaning up some papers in Anita’s office and on the floor (almost looking discarded) was a handwritten sheet on white copy paper. I’m guessing that she had written this in 2009 which is why it was right on top of her stacks of papers and books on the floor. It instantly reminded me [...] THE TEST I mean good grief! How hard can it be? He hasn’t given me a broken body to master, a dysfunctional mind to tame, or a spirit hardened by time and trials too many to count. I want for no worldly thing – not food, shelter, clothing, money, power or prestige. My career was [...] THE HOUSE If you knew anything about me (and I realize you don’t, but you will by the end of the next several chapters), you would know that up until this point I had pretty much lived my life in a never-ending search for the “right” answer, the “right” path, and the “right” decisions. Like a [...] INTRODUCTION The rebuilding – or the initial building, depending upon how you look at it – of my life coincided serendipitously with my first purchase of a real home. Previously, my living spaces and “home” purchases were strictly utilitarian in nature. The first apartment I ever rented was on 17th Street in Lincoln, Nebraska. My now-husband [...] Jackpot! Last night I found a 25 page beginning to a book Anita was writing. It’s a personal memoir written in 2006 that uses our house as a metaphor for her life. I will be sharing it in pieces. It’s maybe her best writing ever. The Family Room 7/8/06 – 3:04 am This is one of my favorite [...] I am pretty sure this comes from Dr. Charles Stanley, a minister here in Atlanta with a television minsistry that Anita often watched or listened to. We visited his church once and the congregation is actually the studio audience. We were a bit stressed to keep the kids quiet during the whole service, so we [...] At the very front file of Anita’s current filing system was a folder labeled GOD. I started thumbing through the papers in it (it was thick!) and found a four page typed set of notes and thoughts. Upon opneing it, I realized she wrote it not two weeks before she died, probably around the first week of [...] |
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