Memories
Most recently shared memories appear first.
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“Revisions of Valhalla” is published
I’m excited to announce the publication of some of Daniel Kreadman Kuhn’s poetry! I described the work in a previous post, and my collaborator Peter Miles Bergman made this great little video overview. If you’re reading the email version of this you’ll have to click through to the web to see it. Peter posted more…
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One Year On, Valhalla Echoes
It’s been a year since my father’s death and I’ve been remembering him in an unpredictable mix of dreams, reflections, and feelings. My heart still shifts around empty spots, and other spaces change shape as the memories I carry adapt to this moment’s inner and outer life. I’ve done a lot of remembering through the…
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Opposition to nuclear proliferation
Going through my father’s files I found this letter he wrote to his representatives in Congress opposing a proposed nuclear weapon project that was then referred to as the MX missile. The MX missile system was deployed in 1985, renamed with some irony as the Peacekeeper. Of course none were ever used, and the last…
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My Friend Dan Kuhn by Dick Kraft
I miss my lifelong friend Dan and am so thankful for the gorgeous photograph on this memory page, which captures the essence of this beautiful man: outdoors in nature; solitary; in touch with his inner being; on a mountaintop; surrounded by wild flowers. My first memories of Dan go back to 1957 when Dan became…
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A Biographical Synopsis of My Life
Daniel wrote this for a Wheaton mission home reunion in June 2013. With the help of Google Maps one can zoom in on southwestern China to an area along the Chinese border with northern Myanmar (Burma) and follow the course of the Salween river northwards until the river almost converges with the border. A few…
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Thoughtful
From Jonathan Rulison He wrestled with my brother, Dan and me on the living room floor. It was Christmas about 1966. Uncle Dan was my Mom’s brother. When I was about 8-10 yrs old our family lived in Scotch Bush NY. Uncle Dan visited us over Christmas time. Besides wrestling on the living room floor,…
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Maroon Bells Backpacking
In the summer of 2007 my father Daniel and I took a week-long backpack trip together in the Maroon Bells in western Colorado. He wouldn’t be diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease for another year, but this trip was the first inkling I had that something was wrong. There were just a few hints during a demanding…
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A Christmas gift at the Wheaton mission home
From Lois Kraft Dan was incredibly kind to me when we lived in the Wheaton mission home while I was in high school and he attended Wheaton College. Provided help with homework. Listened to my teenage woes. We got no assistance whatsoever from our house parents. I donated, pitched or sold almost all my books…
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79th birthday
August 1, 2022 A few of us gathered in Daniel’s room at Park Place Assisted Living in Reno, NV: me (his son Dylan), my wife Ann, and Brook (daughter of Daniel’s nephew Jon). The anticipation of events like this seemed to enhance the effects of Daniel’s primary Parkinson’s medication, Carbodopa-Levadopa. He was in good spirits…
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