Hektoen International

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Tag: Tom Janisse

  • How to live like this

    Tom Janisse Portland, Oregon, USA   Tom’s father’s painting of the Nova Scotia shore near his mother’s birthplace. Courtesy of Tom Janisse How to live like this “This is no way to live, Tom,” my father, Emile, said. I didn’t hear him say he was choosing to die, ready now, wanting to go, because I…