Tuesday, November 21, 2006
Thanks Bloggers, It's That Time Of The Year To Say It
Well, the best-laid plans of mice and men aft go agly, as the poet Robert Burns famously wrote in his ode to a mouse. Of all the things that I intended to do outdoors, I was thwarted in my attempt to make my appointment to get to the gym to meet the personal trainer I'd scheduled with. I had to call...
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Get 'Er Done
I talked to Ned again about M's knee. I told him that I do not know when or if M is going to be open to the idea of even talking about surgery, so, that's as far as it goes for now. I'll drop the subject, before it becomes a sore point between us. Ned gently pointed out that I may have not phrased...
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Sometimes It Takes Some Squeaking For The Wheels To Be Greased
I feel like I got a lot done yesterday. In between blogging, I made a pot roast and a pot of beans with ham (the bone left over from the ham M brought home the other day and we'd just finished off). I did innumerable loads of laundry, tshirts (the man has too many tshirts to count, he just keeps...
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Monday, November 20, 2006
I Get By With A Little Help From My Friends
I am going to call the Veterans Affairs office tomorrow. I got some very good information from Ned at the C & P, a very kind and informative man, who knows quite a lot about the VA, and can help me to gather information on the surgery, the knee replacement surgery that M, "Professor Peabody" G,...
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What Do We Do With Old Tapes?
As I sit here, perusing and sorting my cassette collection (I know it's antiquated technology, but that's a kind of charm in itself), I think of the other meaning of the words "old tapes", that is the messages which I or we received and swallowed into my (our) being as unthinking children, which...
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Monday Morning
Seeing the sun in the morning is a good omen to me. Right now, even after the sporadic rains of yesterday, the rose-tinged clouds along the horizon, seem benign, and sky overhead clear and limpid blue, as though washed sparkling clean by yesterday's rains. I have things to do, it's Monday, phone...
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Sunday, November 19, 2006
Take It To The Limit One More Time
I am in an Eagles kind of mood, as in I'm listening to their greatest hits album, and Joe Walsh's lyrics are just as pithy and pertinent as they were in the 80s, which is rare, as I find that many of the albums of my youth have not worn well. I've stopped listening to them. The Eagles knew the highs...
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Writing Is The Only Life For Me
I've been running down the road, trying to loosen my load, I've got seven women on my mind..." I can never make out the rest of those lyrics by The Eagles, "One cause she's a stony?" It's mystery I guess I'll leave for another time. M finally convinced me that the lyric to Hotel California, was "the...
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Saturday, November 18, 2006
Veterans Of War, Veterans Of Peace: An Anthology edited by M. H. Kingston
This is the book I descrbed in my previous post, the one I went to hear read at Elliott Bay Books, by the veteran medics who served in Vietnam, and Maxine Hong Kingston, author of several books, including "Woman Warrior: Memoirs Of A Girlhood Among Ghosts", as well as the facilitator of 15 years of...
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It Is Better To Light A Candle Than To Curse The Darkness
Here I am in an online cafe on 1st Avenue in downtown Seatle, on the corner of Seneca St. and 1st Ave., at 4:19 pm. I just came from a reading at Elliott Bay Books (PatB knows it well, I'm sure, and remembers it fondly). Elliott Bay Books is an institutiion in Seattle, of how many years I don't...
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