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About maryangelis

Hello Readers! (= Здравствуйте, Читатели!) The writer lives in the Catholic and Orthodox faiths and the English and Russian languages, working in an archive by day and writing at night. Her walk in the world is normally one human being and one small detail after another. Then she goes home and types about it all until the soup is done.

Adorned with Precious Gems: Sunday walk, 2/5

Posted on February 7, 2012 by maryangelis

Sunday I was carrying groceries home and fretting over a hymn for the Feast of Stephen. The hymn about this first Christian martyr is in the Thomas Hopko book Winter Pascha, a lucky dollar buy at Value Village. I am … Continue reading →

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Light in the Window

Posted on January 18, 2012 by maryangelis

One winter I was house-sitting an elegant new condominium in a pretty much empty building, keeping an eye on the place rent-free to work off my student loans. Back in the day, the neighborhood was tight-knit immigrant families in fishing … Continue reading →

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5 People That I Didn’t Want to Meet

Posted on January 12, 2012 by maryangelis

First Impression 1. The subway is packed. The wind chill is -5. That girl in the back is still talking. Is she going to keep it up to the end of the line? Yes. The girl in the back is … Continue reading →

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New Year’s Speech

Posted on January 1, 2012 by maryangelis

This is about visiting a church on New Year’s Eve. Except it’s really about why visiting this church turned out to be a good idea. That was an eventful year. Our warm harmonious group house broke up, with roommates going … Continue reading →

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Solitary 12.26.11

Posted on December 26, 2011 by maryangelis

In 1996 this wave of solitariness washed up on the inner landscape, this cumulative wave of having stuff to talk about and process, but no one available to hear it. It was like spending the day behind a soundproof glass … Continue reading →

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