![]() ![]() A cup of sugar is just a piece of cake for her. Lipinski (the formality between our mothers was never breached) is clearly familiar with impositions–burdens and obligations of all kinds. Prouse, she says, it’s no imposition at all.” With five kids, Mrs. Lipinski, but may I borrow a cup of sugar?” “Come in, Mrs. The door opens and my mother says: “I hate to impose, Mrs. My mother knocks on the door of the little white bungalow and the sounds of eight to a dozen feet thunder to answer it–one pair belong to my best friend, Marian. I have childhood memories–real or imagined–of my first hearing of the word imposition: My mother and my three-year old self toddle across our yard and driveway to the next door neighbor’s house. defines imposition as: the laying on of something as a burden or obligation. Ever since Ash Wednesday I’ve been thinking about the word we use for having ashes smudged on our foreheads: the Imposition of Ashes.
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