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Author Archives: jaurquhart
Queer Science: free verse by @jackaurquhart
©2014 by Jack A. Urquhart Do you know Einstein’s Law of Photoelectric Effect— how electrons can lose their metallic bonds, become sub-atomic emissions, spun solo into space? Well, neither do I. Not really. Only layman’s knowledge. Just enough to speculate, … Continue reading
“March”: a poem by @jackaurquhart
(Some free verse … for my son, Dillon) March You were tardy aborning, a day late and mad — —as a March hare; it took a suction cap to coax you into the world. Pushed to fight or flight, a … Continue reading
A Birthday Wish For Dillon, by @jackaurquhart
©2014 by Jack Andrew Urquhart 682 words Dear Dillon, Dear Son, It’s March again—what would have been your thirty-fifth birthday arriving hard and heavy on the heels of Ash Wednesday this year. I say hard and heavy because it feels … Continue reading
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When God Happens, by @jackaurquhart
© 2014 by Jack A. Urquhart 562 words I have been thinking a lot about God and religion lately or, perhaps more aptly, about the place that notions of Deity figure in my life. Which is not typically a … Continue reading
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Tagged Almighty, Andrew Urquhart, Anglicanism, Catholicism, cognitive dissonance and God, deity, Desperate Gods, Divinity, Every Man Jack, finding God, God, God in Man's image, Godliness, Jack A. Urquhart, Jack Andrew Urquhart, Judaism, Latter Day Saints, Magisterium, Mormonism, organized religion, personal God, religious epiphany, Southern Baptists, When God Happens
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Moving Home, by @jackaurquhart
©2014 by Jack A. Urquhart 939 words I own a house. I have owned it for several years. It is the house I grew up in from early adolescence, although until recently, I had not lived in it for over … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Urquhart, facing change, gay mid-life, Grief Loss and Bereavement, grief management, home-making, Jack A. Urquhart, Jack Andrew Urquhart, loss of a parent, making a home, managing change, mid-life-changes, moving, moving home, period of adjustment, relocating
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Mom’s Christmas Tree, by @jackaurquhart
©2013 by Jack A. Urquhart 631 words This is my Mom’s Christmas tree. Her last Christmas tree. A balsam fir, I think it is. Ray and I bought it for her on December 5th. A Thursday. We brought it over … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Urquhart, Christmas memoir, Christmas story, Christmas tree story, Death at Christmas, Family loss, Final Christmas, Jack A. Urquhart, Jack Andrew Urquhart, last Christmas tree, losing a parent, loss of a mother, loss of a parent, Mom memory, Mom's last Christmas, Mom's legacy, Thelma I. Urquhart, Thelma Urquhart
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Sleigh Bells Ring, a Christmas Memory, by @jackaurquhart
©2013 by Jack A. Urquhart 937 words It was 1960, I think. I would’ve been almost twelve that year—too old to believe in Santa Claus. My tendency to engage in pre-Christmas snooping had seen to that. By then, it had … Continue reading
A Few Words for Mom, by @jackaurquhart
©2013 by Jack Andrew Urquhart 1124 words On the afternoon of December 7, 2013, I received the telephone call that most of us think (and hope) will never come our way: the call that informs us that a … Continue reading
Three ‘Free Verses’ (as well they should be!) by @jackaurquhart
Unforgivable ©2013 by Jack A. Urquhart Three squirrels feed On the meager seed I scatter Familial, skittish They chatter and chide Tattered tails Unfurled like ship sails Their backsides From every angle Guilelessly exposed While just there— Amidst the heather— … Continue reading
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A very strange man, by @jackaurquhart
©2013 by Jack A. Urquhart 988 words Once long ago in another lifetime, I was Vice-President of a multi-million-dollar financial institution. Until, on a spring afternoon, suddenly I wasn’t. It was mid May, I believe, when the … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Urquhart, being fired, change of heart, difficult boss, going through the motions, good advice, inappropriate employment, Jack A. Urquhart, Jack Andrew Urquhart, job loss, life changes, life lessons, nervous tics, oddballs, personal examination, selling out, uncouth boss, uncouth people
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