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from Mojave Ghost | Forrest Gander

from Mojave Ghost | Forrest Gander

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Now there are creases that curvefrom the flanges of my noseto the scissure of my lips.And a deep cleft, like somethingleft by a hatchet,above the bridge of my nose. The brusque, impersonal obstinacy of aging. Weeding around the bushes in frontof our house, I breathe in the slightly licoricescent of rotting leaves. Though it’s twilight, down the street I hearworkers with their tree chipper coming nearer. In the glimmer and darkfallingafterglow, my small exuberanceshive in me like worms in a cadaver. I’ll just sleep for a whilewith these stones over my eyes. Don’t turn away or you’ll lose me. But there you go anyway, drifting outin the saline backwash of dream. Source link

Desert Visions | Forrest Gander

Desert Visions | Forrest Gander

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I was born or given to the light, as the largely Hispanic townspeople would say, in the impoverished desert municipality of Barstow, California. My mother, Ruth, was young and inexperienced; her marriage was already flaking away. I was her practice child, and she did things with me that in retrospect, she said, horrified her, although I suspect she was also secretly proud of the way we had managed. Sometimes she would put me in my playpen and take long morning walks in the desert with our border collie, which at least once saved her from the fat desert sidewinders that hunt in sandy washes before the onslaught of afternoon heat. My mother was an amateur naturalist. It was a vocation stimulated by her poetry-spouting father, a Swedish immigrant with a passion for bird-watching. On her rambles through the nearby Rainbow Basin, a site of torqued rock formations, multicolored strata, and canyons, she kept her eyes peeled. She made lists of flowers as well as birds, and she picked up fossils, including a piece of petrified …

Forrest Gump star Gary Sinise’s son dies of rare cancer

Forrest Gump star Gary Sinise’s son dies of rare cancer

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US actor Gary Sinise has announced the death of his son, five years after he was diagnosed with a “very rare cancer”. The Forrest Gump star said his 33-year-old son McCanna Anthony “Mac” Sinise was diagnosed with Chordoma in August 2018, just months after his wife Moira was diagnosed with stage three breast cancer. While his wife went into remission and has remained cancer-free following treatment, Mac’s cancer spread over time and “disabled him more and more”, 68-year-old Sinise said in a statement. Mac, who was a graduate of the USC Thornton School of Music, died on January 5 this year. “Like any family experiencing such a loss, we are heartbroken and have been managing as best we can,” a statement on the Gary Sinise Foundation’s website said. “As parents, it is so difficult losing a child. My heart goes out to all who have suffered a similar loss, and to anyone who has lost a loved one. ” … It’s heartbreaking, and it’s just damn hard. Our family’s cancer fight lasted for five-and-a-half years, …

Forrest Gump star Gary Sinise’s son Mac dies of rare cancer aged 33 | Ents & Arts News

Forrest Gump star Gary Sinise’s son Mac dies of rare cancer aged 33 | Ents & Arts News

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Forrest Gump and Apollo 13 star Gary Sinise has announced the death of his son Mac, 33, after battling a rare cancer. In a post on the Gary Sinise Foundation website the 68-year-old revealed his son died on 5 January. In a lengthy tribute to his son, he said: “Like any family experiencing such a loss, we are heartbroken and have been managing as best we can. “As parents, it is so difficult losing a child. My heart goes out to all who have suffered a similar loss, and to anyone who has lost a loved one.” Image: Gary Sinise starred in Forrest Gump, CSI: NY, Apollo 13 and The Green Mile. Pic: Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP In the tribute, Sinise said his son, whose full name was McCanna Anthony Sinise, had joined the Gary Sinise Foundation and played drums in his father’s Lt Dan Band until repeated spinal surgeries left him unable to play the instrument. He said his son “was an exceptional drummer” and added: “Those were some great times, father and son rockin’ out …

CSI, Forrest Gump actor Gary Sinise’s son Mac dead at 33 – tragic cause of death revealed

CSI, Forrest Gump actor Gary Sinise’s son Mac dead at 33 – tragic cause of death revealed

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Gary Sinise and his family are mourning the loss of his beloved son McCanna Sinise, who has passed away aged 33. The CSI: New York actor’s official foundation shared the announcement Tuesday afternoon, revealing that McCanna, who was nicknamed Mac, died on January 5 of this year after a five-and-a-half year battle with Chordoma, a rare form of bone cancer that largely impacts the skull and spine. Mac is survived by his father and his mother Moira Harris, as well as siblings Sophie, 35, and Ella, 32. WATCH: Music Stars Gone Too Soon In honor of his son, Gary wrote a lengthy essay detailing Mac and the family’s journey with Chordoma, which began in the summer of 2018, just as his wife Moira was battling with stage 3 breast cancer (she is now in remission). “After surgery to remove the initial tumor in September of 2018, and another spine procedure in February 2019 to clear what looked like an infection, unfortunately a follow up scan in May of 2019 would show that his Chordoma had …

‘Dutch Forrest Gump’s’ Journey Across America for Men’s Mental Health

‘Dutch Forrest Gump’s’ Journey Across America for Men’s Mental Health

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The walk is part of the #BraveMenTalk campaign which aims to raise awareness about male mental health globally and raise funds for charities. (CREDIT: Anton Nootenboom) Anton Nootenboom, also known as “The Barefoot Dutchman” on social media, is not your typical record holder. In 2019, he achieved a remarkable feat by completing the 80-mile round-trip hike to Mount Everest Base Camp without wearing any shoes. Two years later, in 2021, he set a Guinness World Record for the longest barefoot journey by trekking 1,875 miles along the Australian coast. Now, he has set his sights on breaking his own record by embarking on a 3,000-mile barefoot walk from Los Angeles to New York City. Describing his journey as “crazy,” Nootenboom began his expedition on February 17. He humorously likened himself to the character Forrest Gump, as over 30 people joined him for the first mile of his trek in Santa Monica, Calif. This walk is part of the #BraveMenTalk campaign, in collaboration with Barebarics barefoot shoes, which aims to raise awareness about male mental health …

Citizen Scientist Forrest Mims Tells His Remarkable Life Story

Citizen Scientist Forrest Mims Tells His Remarkable Life Story

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Forrest M. Mims III (1944–) has so many accomplishments in science and electronics — with little formal training — that they would make your head spin. Getting Started in Electronics, originally written for RadioShack (now the Source), is one of dozens of electronics books Mims has produced over the years, sold more than 1.3 million copies. Introducing his autobiography, Maverick Scientist: My Adventures as an Amateur Scientist (Make Community, LLC, April 2024), the publisher notes, At thirteen he invented a new method of rocket control. At seventeen he designed and built an analog computer that could translate Russian into English and that the Smithsonian collected as an example of an early hobby computer. While majoring in government at Texas A&M University, Forrest created a hand-held, radar-like device to help guide the blind. And during his military service, he had to be given special clearance to do top secret laser research at the Air Force Weapons Lab. Why? Because while he lacked the required engineering degree, they wanted his outside-the-box thinking on the project. That Scientific …