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Letters to an Adopted Child

Sunscreen

Sunscreen is painless, quick to apply, and effective, and yet it almost always becomes the enemy of the summer’s day. Continue reading Sunscreen

Davis Wetherell1 Aug 202027 Nov 2020
Letters to an Adopted Child

Mask

Like the Coronavirus itself, the mask has spread. Once particular, it turned ubiquitous, though not without friction. Continue reading Mask

Davis Wetherell18 Jul 202027 Nov 2020
Letters to an Adopted Child

Coaster

Once a year, the local community enveloping my college campus held a town-wide garage sale day. Continue reading Coaster

Davis Wetherell4 Jul 202027 Nov 2020
Letters to an Adopted Child

Bookshelf

This one room stores more wisdom than my mind can retain. And most of what I am able to read in my short life, I will forget. Continue reading Bookshelf

Davis Wetherell20 Jun 202027 Nov 2020
Letters to an Adopted Child

Glasses

Lenses look like flattened ice cubes, melted enough to be translucent. Cold and dull, they seem impersonal. But the task they perform makes them a vital part of our humanity. Continue reading Glasses

Davis Wetherell6 Jun 202027 Nov 2020
Letters to an Adopted Child

Rain

Controlling rain would be a great thing for humanity. You don’t have to look far in our culture to see the damage rain has done to us in the past, and the ways we are trying to cope with it now. Continue reading Rain

Davis Wetherell9 May 202027 Nov 2020
Letters to an Adopted Child

Watch

Watches can be statements of decadence and pragmatism, athleticism and intelligence, masculinity and femininity. These wearable messengers of time are often the most expensive and most constant outward representation of our inner self. Continue reading Watch

Davis Wetherell25 Apr 202020 May 2020
Letters to an Adopted Child

Coronavirus

I write this on the morning of April 7, 2020. Your mother and I have been taking refuge at home, leaving only when absolutely necessary, for twenty-one days. Continue reading Coronavirus

Davis Wetherell11 Apr 202027 Nov 2020
Letters to an Adopted Child

Keys

Keys’ primary function is to get us inside something that belongs to us. This is evident by the name we call individual keys—car keys, house keys. Continue reading Keys

Davis Wetherell28 Mar 202027 Nov 2020
Letters to an Adopted Child

House

Houses are always an infusion of inanimate and animate things, that is to say an inseparable mixture of nonliving objects and living beings. Continue reading House

Davis Wetherell21 Mar 202020 Mar 2020

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