sarah wildman
@SarahAWildman
editing @NYT Op-ed. was @NBCDigital & host First Person podcast @foreignpolicy. //Paper Love: Searching for the Girl My Grandfather Left Behind @riverheadbooks
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http://www.sarahwildman.com 21-04-2009 03:56:59
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.David Frum grants us the privilege of sharing his grief in this remarkable story of love that far surpasses our time on earth and the terrible pain of what the world lost when the family lost his daughter, Miranda.
“A year is a strange and terrible marker of time, simultaneously endless and instant,” writes sarah wildman. “A year of loss is a new form of permanence: This is the life we lead. It will not change.”
Read: nyti.ms/497BEuK
“A year is a strange and terrible marker of time, simultaneously endless and instant,” writes sarah wildman. “A year of loss is a new form of permanence: This is the life we lead. It will not change.” Read: nyti.ms/49Idk3L
<the key to seeing each other’s humanity is in somehow recognizing how universal the terrible ongoing nature of loss is, how human it makes us, how frail, how essential each day is, when none of us has any idea about the next.> sarah wildman nyti.ms/3GcKETp
“The gratitude I’ll have this Thanksgiving will still come: from having had the chance to know this love, even in its pain,” writes sarah wildman of her first Thanksgiving after the death of her daughter.
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Hi! New York Times Opinion is looking for personal essays about regret. If you have a *specific* regret that haunts you and continues to shape or inform your life, pitch me! We're looking for unexpected, compelling, instructive stories and great writing. [email protected]
“That will be the work of all the rest of our days,” writes sarah wildman, “to hold this pain and this beauty side by side, without letting the one crush or crowd out the other. We have to let this beauty in, too.” nyti.ms/47MoLH4
“That will be the work of all the rest of our days,” writes sarah wildman, “to hold this pain and this beauty side by side, without letting the one crush or crowd out the other. We have to let this beauty in, too.” nyti.ms/47Lq74T
“Where Judaism proscribes the child mourning her parent to avoid unnecessary joy, perhaps, I thought, my family had to actively seek beauty,” writes sarah wildman. “We had to do what Orli had done.” nyti.ms/3sizett
“When we were children we thought the war was last century, a long, long time ago,” Anne Berest, the author of “The Postcard,” told sarah wildman. “But the more you get older, the more you feel that the war was yesterday.” nyti.ms/3WK6qW5
“The Postcard” by Anne Berest forces readers to consider ripple effects of the Holocaust across generations, writes sarah wildman. nyti.ms/43HE1C6