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𝐏ersonnalité de la 𝐒emaine

𝐓𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐚 𝐓𝐡𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐬𝐨𝐧
Actrice Productrice Américaine

#TessaThompson c'est plus de 30 Films

#actress #cinegenres #classic #cinema
#ForColoredGirls #DearWhitePeople #GranthamAndRose #Selma #Creed
#SorryToBotherYou #Annihilation #Avengers #MenInBlack
#SylviesLove #Passing #TheListener #Hedda #HisAndHers

𝐄n 𝐒avoir 𝐏lus:
https://www.youtube.com/@Cinegenres

Comet to delight New Zealand stargazers, if it survives close encounter with the sun

The website earthsky.org reports that R3 will be at its closest to Earth on April 26, when …
#NewsBeep #News #Space #(month) #around #AU #Australia #chance #close #comet #could #delight #edges #encounter #Extraterrestrial #from #hurtles #If #it #New #Outer #passing #planet #Science #solar #stargazers #Sun #survives #system #the #this #To #visible #visitor #week #with #zealand
https://www.newsbeep.com/au/620393/

Comet to delight New Zealand stargazers, if it survives close encounter with the sun

The website earthsky.org reports that R3 will be at its closest to Earth on April 26, when …
#NewsBeep #News #Space #(month) #around #AU #Australia #chance #close #comet #could #delight #edges #encounter #Extraterrestrial #from #hurtles #If #it #New #Outer #passing #planet #Science #solar #stargazers #Sun #survives #system #the #this #To #visible #visitor #week #with #zealand
https://www.newsbeep.com/au/620393/

Comet to delight New Zealand stargazers, if it survives close encounter with the sun

The website earthsky.org reports that R3 will be at its closest to Earth on April 26, when …
#NewsBeep #News #Space #(month) #around #AU #Australia #chance #close #comet #could #delight #edges #encounter #Extraterrestrial #from #hurtles #If #it #New #Outer #passing #planet #Science #solar #stargazers #Sun #survives #system #the #this #To #visible #visitor #week #with #zealand
https://www.newsbeep.com/au/620393/

https://www.evshift.com/441638/passing-an-obstacle-with-the-treefat-2-electricvehicle-veloelectrique-obstacles-asmr/ PASSING AN OBSTACLE WITH THE TREEFAT 2 #electricvehicle #veloelectrique #obstacles #asmr #asmr #ElectricCars #ElectricVehicle #ElectricVehicles #electricvehicle #EV #Obstacle #Obstacles #passing #TREEFAT #veloelectrique

https://www.europesays.com/iran/74285/ Hezbollah IEDs Destroyed Merkavas in South Lebanon #after #amid #ceasefire #Destroyed #Four #Hezbollah #IEDs #in #Islam #Israeli #Lebanon #Merkava #Merkavas #Ongoing #over #passing #planted #pre #south #Tanks #Times #violations #were

If I hear one more person say, “Well, as long as they’re passing, I don’t really care.” Really? YOU??? You’re the grand arbiter of all things someone else needs to do to their body in order to use a PUBLICLY PAID FOR throne room? REALLY????
https://medium.com/prismnpen/trans-people-shouldnt-have-to-pass-79be68b46cda?sk=d3ca0c68efc2035f7584240eeb164815

#LGBTQ #Transgender #Passing #Rant

𝐏ersonnalité de la 𝐒emaine

𝐓𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐚 𝐓𝐡𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐬𝐨𝐧
Actrice Productrice Américaine Née en 1983

#TessaThompson #actress #cinegenres #classic #cinema #ForColoredGirls #DearWhitePeople #Grantham&Rose #Selma #Creed #SorryToBotherYou #Annihilation #Avengers #MenInBlack
#SylviesLove #Passing #TheListener #Hedda #HisAndHers

𝐅ilmographie :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjEvGoiHtIY

𝐀ctrice 𝐝𝐮 𝐉our

𝐓𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐚 𝐓𝐡𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐬𝐨𝐧
Actrice Productrice Américaine Née en 1983

#TessaThompson c'est plus de 30 Films depuis 2006

#ActriceDuJour #actress #actrice #cinegenres #classic #cinema #forcoloredgirls #DearWhitePeople #granthamandrose #selma #creed #SorryToBotherYou #Annihilation #avengers #meninblack #sylvieslove #passing #TheListener #hedda #hisandhers

𝐅ilmographie :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjEvGoiHtIY

If you have to "pass" as a woman or a man for safety reasons then do so. It undermines nothing about your true nonbinary self.

The world is vast and often hostile. As a nonbinary person, the threats to your life are greater than many.

Do what you must to survive.

#NonBinaryPositivity #NonBinaryPride #NonBinary #passing #GenderBinary

956. Bragging (Week 315 – Saturday; 3/21/2026)

https://breakfastclubtx.wordpress.com/2026/03/21/956-bragging-week-315-saturday-3-21-2026/

956. Bragging (Week 315 – Saturday; 3/21/2026)

https://breakfastclubtx.wordpress.com/2026/03/21/956-bragging-week-315-saturday-3-21-2026/

956. Bragging (Week 315 – Saturday; 3/21/2026)

https://breakfastclubtx.wordpress.com/2026/03/21/956-bragging-week-315-saturday-3-21-2026/

956. Bragging (Week 315 – Saturday; 3/21/2026)

https://breakfastclubtx.wordpress.com/2026/03/21/956-bragging-week-315-saturday-3-21-2026/

956. Bragging (Week 315 – Saturday; 3/21/2026)

https://breakfastclubtx.wordpress.com/2026/03/21/956-bragging-week-315-saturday-3-21-2026/

Martin Short’s daughter Katherine found dead at 42

Katherine Short, a Los Angeles social worker and the daughter of actor and comedian Martin Short, has died.…
#NewsBeep #News #Celebrities #actor #Canada #crisistextline #daughterkatherineshort #Entertainment #joy #l.a.socialworker #lawenforcementsource #light #MartinShort #passing #Privacy #shortfamily #time #times #U.S. #UK #UnitedKingdom
https://www.newsbeep.com/uk/446453/

Martin Short’s daughter Katherine found dead at 42

Katherine Short, a Los Angeles social worker and the daughter of actor and comedian Martin Short, has died.…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Entertainment #actor #Canada #crisistextline #daughterkatherineshort #joy #l.a.socialworker #lawenforcementsource #light #MartinShort #Passing #privacy #shortfamily #time #times #U.S.
https://www.newsbeep.com/us/490504/

Martin Short’s daughter Katherine found dead at 42

Katherine Short, a Los Angeles social worker and the daughter of actor and comedian Martin Short, has died.…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Entertainment #actor #Canada #crisistextline #daughterkatherineshort #joy #l.a.socialworker #lawenforcementsource #light #MartinShort #Passing #privacy #shortfamily #time #times #U.S.
https://www.newsbeep.com/us/490504/

https://www.europesays.com/ie/356257/ Why storks are swapping Africa for Malaga’s ring road #are #Éire #hundred #hyperrondes #IE #Ireland #longer #malaga #next #passing #Science #storks #the #through #Wildlife #wintering

https://www.europesays.com/uk/788146/ Why storks are swapping Africa for Malaga’s ring road #are #hundred #hyperrondes #longer #Malaga #Next #passing #Science #storks #the #through #UK #UnitedKingdom #wildlife #wintering

#Passing is a myth. Or, rather, the concept that one exists in a state of passing or not is a myth.

I can be walking down the street certain that the leering eyes aren't clocking me. Ten minutes later a clerk accidentally misgenders me.

Consider that there are ~0% of the world I would "pass" for if I were naked in front of them.

Yet, also, even before I started my transition I would get people referring to me by she/her sometimes.

There's no point at which suddenly "you pass". There are always going to be situations where any trans women who's put in a modicum of effort will pass.

I was trying to sort out an issue with an old account. The man behind the glass looked at my old statements, saw my old name — a distinctly male name — and then looked up at me. He looked utterly confused. He didn’t see a trans woman; he saw a woman holding a man’s paperwork.
https://medium.com/prismnpen/i-finally-passed-as-a-woman-it-broke-me-7428e38c586f?sk=79a8ea0259eaf0ba7a9148f30e1e31de

#LGBTQ #Transgender #Passing

Dab Hands

Two videos from Dab Hands #juggling club (R.I.P.): One of the club’s final night, and another of an entire night… sped up.

[…]

Season 2 of #Frieren started airing yesterday 🎉

If you don't know about this wonderful anime, do yourself a favour an go watch it 😉

It's a pleasure to look at (drawings and colors are stunning) and, though it touches on the theme of grief and passing, it's really mostly a warm and cozy slice of life, with really nice and touching scenes about human relationships.

#anime #grief #time #passing #sliceOfLife

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🦝🐩🐕🐶🐕‍🦺🐈🐈‍⬛🌼🌿🌱🐐🐒🐑🐘🐦🦁🌐🌏🩵💁🏿‍♀️*DEAR BELOVED FRIENDS GOOD THURSDAY MORNING!👉

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🦝🐩🐕🐶🐕‍🦺🐈🐈‍⬛🌼🌿🌱🐐🐒🐑🐘🐦🦁🌐🌏🩵💁🏿‍♀️*DEAR BELOVED FRIENDS AROUND THE WORLD GOOD THURSDAY MORNING!👉

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🦝🐩🐕🐶🐕‍🦺🐈🐈‍⬛🌼🌿🌱🐐🐒🐑🐘🐦🦁🌐🌏🩵💁🏿‍♀️*DEAR BELOVED FRIENDS AROUND THE WORLD GOOD THURSDAY MORNING!👉

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hey chat #remember that you don't have to worry about whether or not you #pass! #gender roles are stupid!!!! if #passing is important to you, that's a-okay! but don't let #people pressure you into feeling like passing is the key aspect of your #identity. you don't owe anyone anything when it comes to how you outwardly present

Tag beginnt mit:
Junge Frau, könnten Sie bitte meinen Einkaufswagen zurückstellen?
(trans* joy of #passing :neocat__w: )

Tag endet mit:
Eine breitere Rezeption bzw. Anerkennung in der Kunstproduktion ist dem gegenüber abträglich, und riskiert mit ihrem wirtschaftlichen Erfolg den eigenen künstlerischen Stellenwert. Gleichsam verhält es sich mit dem gesellschaftlichen Status (Hierarchie) in Bezug auf die Rezeption: Je niedriger in der gesellschaftlichen Hierarchie, so auch der künstlerische Stellenwert. #Bourdieu
(trans* PhD Studentin muss Wäsche waschen und dabei Theorie lesen)

You know, the thing about masking is that you are at a double disadvantage

In the first place, you are required to play by all sorts of rules, arbitrary, unwritten and changeable...none of which are your own

So there is never any real success except in dealing with whelm better so it doesn't take over.

You may do a good job faking it

Great, now you're a faker..AND stressed

Or more likely, that in addition to the stress.thst would be there regardless, the cracks in the mask separate you in a way to facilitate an atavistic alienation cycle

#autism #masking #allism #passing #erasure #shame

#NHLVideos: It’s OK to shoot sometimes https://www.rawchili.com/4697359/ #CmonMan #couturier #Flyers #FlyersVsPanthers #HIGHLIGHTS: #hockey #HockeyBloopers #HockeyGame #HockeyVideos #IceHockey #IceHockeyHighlights #IceHockeyVideos #lol #NationalHockeyLeague #NHL #NhlBloopers #NhlHighlights #NHLVideos #NHLVlog #omg #oops #passing #TooMuchPassing #unselfish #video #videos #Vlog #weird #WeirdNHL #wtf

#NHLVideos: It’s OK to shoot sometimes https://www.rawchili.com/4697359/ #CmonMan #couturier #Flyers #FlyersVsPanthers #HIGHLIGHTS: #hockey #HockeyBloopers #HockeyGame #HockeyVideos #IceHockey #IceHockeyHighlights #IceHockeyVideos #lol #NationalHockeyLeague #NHL #NhlBloopers #NhlHighlights #NHLVideos #NHLVlog #omg #oops #passing #TooMuchPassing #unselfish #video #videos #Vlog #weird #WeirdNHL #wtf

This week’s top high school football playoff games https://www.rawchili.com/nfl/555739/ #carson #CoronaCentennial #Football #MaterDei #no #palisades #passing #pick #QuarterbackPosition #SanPedro #SantaMargarita #season #servite #Speed #St.JohnBosco #UnbeatenSierraCanyon

This week’s top high school football playoff games https://www.rawchili.com/nfl/555739/ #carson #CoronaCentennial #Football #MaterDei #no #palisades #passing #pick #QuarterbackPosition #SanPedro #SantaMargarita #season #servite #Speed #St.JohnBosco #UnbeatenSierraCanyon

How Did Randy Jones Die? What We Know About the Padres Legend’s Passing https://www.rawchili.com/mlb/444266/ #about #Baseball #did #die #english #how #Jones #know #legends #MLB #MLBDeaths2025 #MlbNews #Padres #PadresLegendDies #PadresRandyJonesCauseOfDeath #Passing #randy #RandyJonesCauseOfDeath #RandyJonesDeath #RandyJonesIllness #RandyJonesObituary #RandyJonesThroatCancer #SanDiego #SanDiegoPadres #SanDiego #SanDiegoPadres #Sports #the #what

How Did Randy Jones Die? What We Know About the Padres Legend’s Passing https://www.rawchili.com/mlb/444266/ #about #Baseball #did #die #english #how #Jones #know #legends #MLB #MLBDeaths2025 #MlbNews #Padres #PadresLegendDies #PadresRandyJonesCauseOfDeath #Passing #randy #RandyJonesCauseOfDeath #RandyJonesDeath #RandyJonesIllness #RandyJonesObituary #RandyJonesThroatCancer #SanDiego #SanDiegoPadres #SanDiego #SanDiegoPadres #Sports #the #what

I just heard that an old friend and colleague with whom I’d lost touch has died. There are lots of things to be said by people closer to them than I had become. But this person was kind, and classy, and creative. And by being all of that, they made the world, and so many other people’s lives, far better. If you know anyone like that, tell them so.

#inmemory #inmemoriam #absentfriends #tribute #tellthem #eulogy #elegy #sorrow #passing

I just heard that an old friend and colleague with whom I’d lost touch has died. There are lots of things to be said by people closer to them than I had become. But this person was kind, and classy, and creative. And by being all of that, they made the world, and so many other people’s lives, far better. If you know anyone like that, tell them so.

#inmemory #inmemoriam #absentfriends #tribute #tellthem #eulogy #elegy #sorrow #passing

I just heard that an old friend and colleague with whom I’d lost touch has died. There are lots of things to be said by people closer to them than I had become. But this person was kind, and classy, and creative. And by being all of that, they made the world, and so many other people’s lives, far better. If you know anyone like that, tell them so.

#inmemory #inmemoriam #absentfriends #tribute #tellthem #eulogy #elegy #sorrow #passing

I just heard that an old friend and colleague with whom I’d lost touch has died. There are lots of things to be said by people closer to them than I had become. But this person was kind, and classy, and creative. And by being all of that, they made the world, and so many other people’s lives, far better. If you know anyone like that, tell them so.

#inmemory #inmemoriam #absentfriends #tribute #tellthem #eulogy #elegy #sorrow #passing

I just heard that an old friend and colleague with whom I’d lost touch has died. There are lots of things to be said by people closer to them than I had become. But this person was kind, and classy, and creative. And by being all of that, they made the world, and so many other people’s lives, far better. If you know anyone like that, tell them so.

#inmemory #inmemoriam #absentfriends #tribute #tellthem #eulogy #elegy #sorrow #passing

Cam Newton praises Bryce Young after Panthers passing record broken against Falcons https://www.rawchili.com/nfl/540796/ #49ers #Atlanta #bryce #cam #Carolina #CarolinaPanthers #CarolinaPanthers #charlotte #Falcons #Football #Game #monday #most #NC #news #Newton #NFL #night #NorthCarolina #Panthers #passing #podcast #qb #quarterback #record #SanFrancisco #sf #show #single #Sports #yards #young #youtube

Cam Newton praises Bryce Young after Panthers passing record broken against Falcons https://www.rawchili.com/nfl/540796/ #49ers #Atlanta #bryce #cam #Carolina #CarolinaPanthers #CarolinaPanthers #charlotte #Falcons #Football #Game #monday #most #NC #news #Newton #NFL #night #NorthCarolina #Panthers #passing #podcast #qb #quarterback #record #SanFrancisco #sf #show #single #Sports #yards #young #youtube

Not sure how I feel about this news.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/04/politics/dick-cheney-death-obit

I have plenty of conflicted feelings.

🏴‍☠️ 🐻

#Passing #CurrentEvents

Remembering the last – and perhaps favorite – of Ernest Hemingway’s sons – Cognoscenti

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Remembering the last — and perhaps favorite — of Ernest Hemingway’s sons

By Tom Putnam, October 30, 2025, Cognoscenti contributor

Tom Putnam is the former director of the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and the Concord Museum. More…

Few people can claim their birth informed the ending to one of the 20th century’s most iconic novels. But that was the case for Patrick Hemingway.

Patrick was born in 1928, just as his father, Ernest, was writing “A Farewell to Arms,” including the final scene in which the American lieutenant, Frederic Henry, loses his wife, an English WWI nurse named Catherine Barkley, and their baby in childbirth.  As Hemingway wrote in the introduction to the 1948 re-issue of the novel:

During the time I was writing the first draft my second son Patrick was delivered in Kansas City by Caesarean section and while I was rewriting my father killed himself in Oak Park, Illinois. I was not quite 30 years old when I finished the book … I remember all of these things happening and the places we lived in and the fine times and the bad times we had in that year.  But much more vividly I remember living in the book and making up what happened in it every day. Making the country and the people and the things that happened I was happier than I have ever been.

–Ernest Hemingway (Introduction to the 1948 re-issue of the novel)

I will be thinking of Patrick — who died on September 3 at age 97 — this weekend when the 49th Annual PEN/Hemingway Award Celebration takes place on Columbia Point.  (Usually, the ceremony is held at the Kennedy Library, but this year it will be at UMass Boston due to the federal government shutdown).

For years, Patrick and his wife, Carol, traveled to Boston from their home in Montana for this ceremony so that Patrick could personally present these honors.

According to the literary historian Sandra Spanier, “[Ernest Hemingway] loved all three of his sons, but he really felt a special affinity and closeness with Patrick.”

In fact, one of Patrick’s last literary adventures was to publish “Dear Papa: The Letters of Patrick and Ernest Hemingway.”

In one of those letters, Ernest wrote: “You were the only brother I had among my sons.”

In his introduction, Patrick joked that the book was his attempt to answer the question he had often been asked by friends and strangers alike: “Did you know your father?”

There are many references to hunting and fishing in the letters and Patrick often recalled their happiest times together were in such sporting pursuits.

But he insisted that the letters’ true significance resides in the light they cast on the person he grew to know over time – someone quite different from the normal portrayal of Papa Hemingway: “The man I knew tried very hard to be a good family man…intimately connected with his wives and his children all his life.”

Professor Spanier, an expert on Hemingway letters, indicates that Ernest was clearly proud of Patrick’s intellect.

And looking back at their exchanges, Patrick noted, “as my maturity developed, I could use my letters to create something similar to his and in certain fields, such as poetry and hunting, I could openly compete.”

Many scholars believe Hemingway was paying tribute to Patrick in his novel, “Islands in the Stream”, with this description of the protagonist’s second son: “The middle boy had a lovely, small, animal quality, and he had a good mind and a life of his own. He was affectionate and had a good sense of justice and was good company.”

Patrick was the firstborn son of Hemingway’s second wife, Pauline Pfeiffer, but it was Hemingway’s fourth wife, Mary Welsh, who (after an outreach from Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis) decided to donate the Hemingway materials to the Kennedy Library.

Unfortunately, she was unable to travel to Boston for the dedication of the Hemingway Room, just months after the JFK Library opened in 1979.  So Patrick represented his family at the ceremony with Kennedy Onassis.

Since that time, no one has been more stalwart in supporting Hemingway’s literary legacy and the Library’s efforts to preserve this remarkable collection than Patrick. He always insisted that any Hemingway-related programming focus not only on his father’s oeuvre, but also promote literature writ large.

That might have been best accomplished at the Hemingway Centennial Conference, held in Boston in 1999, featuring scores of renowned authors including four Nobel Prize laureates: Saul Bellow, Nadine Gordimer, Kenzaburo Oe, and Derek Walcott, who all spoke of their debt to Hemingway.

Another powerful example are the annual PEN/Hemingway Awards which have honored authors such as Marilynne Robinson, Jhumpa Lhari, Edward P. Jones, and Yiyun Li for their debut novels and story collections.

As the former director of the Kennedy Library, I introduced Patrick at many of these events.  Once, when I used the term “Hemingway’s sole surviving son” he responded with a twinkle in his eye, saying “that means I get to have the last word!”

And so, fittingly, let me allow him the penultimate word here.

In his preface to the library edition of “Green Hills of Africa,”Hemingway’s memoir of his 1933 safari across the Serengeti, Patrick noted that the book is divided into four parts, specifically four pursuits, of which the last is titled “pursuit as happiness.”

This pursuit was, in many ways, what informed Patrick’s decision at age 23, in the wake of his mother’s death and after graduating from Harvard, to follow his father’s footsteps to East Africa, where he would live, work and start his own family.

When Patrick was a child, his mother had distributed Hemingway’s African trophy mounts of lion, kudu and other antelope throughout their home in Key West.

“In the bedroom I shared with my younger brother, Gregory, it was a wildebeest,” he wrote, “making East Africa my promised land.”

“But then,” he continued, “who of us hasn’t a promised land, caught up with happiness, the constant nymph, and run with her swiftly through the green birch forest of Arden only to trip and fall and watch her disappear into the trees without a backward glance?  So light a candle, love the light, and face the darkness when the candle fails.”

While not unexpected, Patrick’s final disappearance into death’s green birch forest has left our world a darker place. Yet, for me, it will be forever lit by warm memories of times shared with Hemingway’s middle son and of his good mind and good company.

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Remembering the last — and perhaps favorite — of Ernest Hemingway’s sons

By Tom Putnam, October 30, 2025, Cognoscenti contributor

Tom Putnam is the former director of the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and the Concord Museum. More…

Few people can claim their birth informed the ending to one of the 20th century’s most iconic novels. But that was the case for Patrick Hemingway.

Patrick was born in 1928, just as his father, Ernest, was writing “A Farewell to Arms,” including the final scene in which the American lieutenant, Frederic Henry, loses his wife, an English WWI nurse named Catherine Barkley, and their baby in childbirth.  As Hemingway wrote in the introduction to the 1948 re-issue of the novel:

During the time I was writing the first draft my second son Patrick was delivered in Kansas City by Caesarean section and while I was rewriting my father killed himself in Oak Park, Illinois. I was not quite 30 years old when I finished the book … I remember all of these things happening and the places we lived in and the fine times and the bad times we had in that year.  But much more vividly I remember living in the book and making up what happened in it every day. Making the country and the people and the things that happened I was happier than I have ever been.

–Ernest Hemingway (Introduction to the 1948 re-issue of the novel)

I will be thinking of Patrick — who died on September 3 at age 97 — this weekend when the 49th Annual PEN/Hemingway Award Celebration takes place on Columbia Point.  (Usually, the ceremony is held at the Kennedy Library, but this year it will be at UMass Boston due to the federal government shutdown).

For years, Patrick and his wife, Carol, traveled to Boston from their home in Montana for this ceremony so that Patrick could personally present these honors.

According to the literary historian Sandra Spanier, “[Ernest Hemingway] loved all three of his sons, but he really felt a special affinity and closeness with Patrick.”

In fact, one of Patrick’s last literary adventures was to publish “Dear Papa: The Letters of Patrick and Ernest Hemingway.”

In one of those letters, Ernest wrote: “You were the only brother I had among my sons.”

In his introduction, Patrick joked that the book was his attempt to answer the question he had often been asked by friends and strangers alike: “Did you know your father?”

There are many references to hunting and fishing in the letters and Patrick often recalled their happiest times together were in such sporting pursuits.

But he insisted that the letters’ true significance resides in the light they cast on the person he grew to know over time – someone quite different from the normal portrayal of Papa Hemingway: “The man I knew tried very hard to be a good family man…intimately connected with his wives and his children all his life.”

Professor Spanier, an expert on Hemingway letters, indicates that Ernest was clearly proud of Patrick’s intellect.

And looking back at their exchanges, Patrick noted, “as my maturity developed, I could use my letters to create something similar to his and in certain fields, such as poetry and hunting, I could openly compete.”

Many scholars believe Hemingway was paying tribute to Patrick in his novel, “Islands in the Stream”, with this description of the protagonist’s second son: “The middle boy had a lovely, small, animal quality, and he had a good mind and a life of his own. He was affectionate and had a good sense of justice and was good company.”

Patrick was the firstborn son of Hemingway’s second wife, Pauline Pfeiffer, but it was Hemingway’s fourth wife, Mary Welsh, who (after an outreach from Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis) decided to donate the Hemingway materials to the Kennedy Library.

Unfortunately, she was unable to travel to Boston for the dedication of the Hemingway Room, just months after the JFK Library opened in 1979.  So Patrick represented his family at the ceremony with Kennedy Onassis.

Since that time, no one has been more stalwart in supporting Hemingway’s literary legacy and the Library’s efforts to preserve this remarkable collection than Patrick. He always insisted that any Hemingway-related programming focus not only on his father’s oeuvre, but also promote literature writ large.

That might have been best accomplished at the Hemingway Centennial Conference, held in Boston in 1999, featuring scores of renowned authors including four Nobel Prize laureates: Saul Bellow, Nadine Gordimer, Kenzaburo Oe, and Derek Walcott, who all spoke of their debt to Hemingway.

Another powerful example are the annual PEN/Hemingway Awards which have honored authors such as Marilynne Robinson, Jhumpa Lhari, Edward P. Jones, and Yiyun Li for their debut novels and story collections.

As the former director of the Kennedy Library, I introduced Patrick at many of these events.  Once, when I used the term “Hemingway’s sole surviving son” he responded with a twinkle in his eye, saying “that means I get to have the last word!”

And so, fittingly, let me allow him the penultimate word here.

In his preface to the library edition of “Green Hills of Africa,”Hemingway’s memoir of his 1933 safari across the Serengeti, Patrick noted that the book is divided into four parts, specifically four pursuits, of which the last is titled “pursuit as happiness.”

This pursuit was, in many ways, what informed Patrick’s decision at age 23, in the wake of his mother’s death and after graduating from Harvard, to follow his father’s footsteps to East Africa, where he would live, work and start his own family.

When Patrick was a child, his mother had distributed Hemingway’s African trophy mounts of lion, kudu and other antelope throughout their home in Key West.

“In the bedroom I shared with my younger brother, Gregory, it was a wildebeest,” he wrote, “making East Africa my promised land.”

“But then,” he continued, “who of us hasn’t a promised land, caught up with happiness, the constant nymph, and run with her swiftly through the green birch forest of Arden only to trip and fall and watch her disappear into the trees without a backward glance?  So light a candle, love the light, and face the darkness when the candle fails.”

While not unexpected, Patrick’s final disappearance into death’s green birch forest has left our world a darker place. Yet, for me, it will be forever lit by warm memories of times shared with Hemingway’s middle son and of his good mind and good company.

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