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My favorite parking lot

Brooke Barker
May 16, 2023
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This month Boaz lost his dad and I lost my biggest fan. I hope today you see a good jacket or a nice dog, or quality zipper, a protein-rich breakfast, a well-designed sink, an emotional YouTube video, a talented singer, a neighborhood cat, a solid pair of socks. I hope you see something good tomorrow too, and the day after that, and every day for the rest of your life because that’s how long we’ll be thinking about him.

You can also read this piece Boaz wrote about his dad and gardening here:

Rootbound
Remembering my Dad
I was weeding during my last conversation with my dad. As I pulled out vetch in Pittsburgh, my dad was in Israel telling me how he’d just visited his brother Shlomo’s grave. My dad would talk about Shlomo often but until that conversation I didn’t know that Shlomo loved plants too. Shlomo had completed a course at Israel’s first agricultural school and …
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ehme
May 16Liked by Brooke Barker

I am so sorry for your loss. YKK is a top notch zipper, I love that he verbalized such things. Love to you and yours.

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ada
May 16Liked by Brooke Barker

Im so sorry for your loss and its a strange thing to say but this email made my day - will try to follow an advice giving there. What an interesting human being he mush have been.

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