For thirty years, I couldn’t bring home anything kindled by anticipation without a fleeting relief I didn’t drop it in the doorway. Dropping that first Buddha exacted its small punishment, turned into a touchstone of pain, and opened an access of grief. It became a superstition but more than a superstition. Superstitions are arb…
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