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TRAINS, OCEAN LINERS, AND CONVENTIONS
1999, Queen Mary Life blooms delightfully. Or crowds me delightfully. Yes, I am getting used to all these doctor’s appointments. Monday is a knee post-op. Tuesday, when I would rather b...
FOUR DAYS
1983 Tuesday went fine until the recovery room and the Afib. Wednesday was a slept most of the day day. Upstairs toilet a problem. Made cardiac apt. Thursday I fell asleep at every opportu...
A QUIET MOMENT
The knee surgery went very well. As I tried to wake up in the recovery room, my heart burped a bit. Afib, frightening me. But now I know what happened a few years ago, now I know what happe...
HEADING IN
May of 86.
CHRISTMAS CARDS AND SMALLS
1982 • If I don’t write every day, I lose the date. • Looking through the files my eyes were caught by these Christmas Cards. The one at the bottom was the last one I did. In the top ...
NEXT
I went in to find the dominant eye, (right), and measure the Axial somethingorother of my eyes. But it didn’t seem to be working quite right. The tech ran the tests several times. I told the...
ABUNDANCES
“My love Is like the grasses Hidden in the deep mountain: Though its abundance increases There is none that knows.” Ono No Yoshiki (From a journal entry, 1979) .....................................
IT BEGINS
Not every day will have a doctor’s appointment tucked into a corner, but many do. No one has discussed a nursing home with me, and I certainly am pleased. Tuesday I can shelve some of the myri...
SUNDAY TO DO'S
There was something happening everywhere in the park yesterday. Write this. Find a photograph to go in it. Nice stuff. Post this and read a few blogs. Finish the medical forms for three ...
BOOKCASE AND MILLSTONE
I was looking at old pictures last night as everything was transferred over to this computer. It was such a sadness to realize most of the friends I saw were dead. This doodle was done wh...
A STUFFED CHAIR ANONYMITY
Have I told you that I was a Commie Pinko Rat on one of Nixon’s bad guy lists. Once so full of my own passions that I marched in support of democracy, now I’m shrunk into a comfortable chai...
biography
He made this panel for all the lost, unknown, and unloved people who died of AIDS. I woke this morning feeling very ill. I sort-of lay there, sweating, and waited it out on the bed. Aro...
LEXICON
i On a first date I asked, what do you do for a living and there was silence. I asked again, socially, just to fill the empty spaces before he said pornography with a pause child pornography, d...
ARANGEMENTS
Blue and Yellow. The day is beautifully sunny and bright. At noon, both G and I drove out to the bone doctor to discover that we didn’t need to be there. He had to “request” the shots tha...
RENEW
A doodle in color: Mission San Juan Capistrano, inner courtyard. • Life moves on even if I worry about it. The doctor’s office has not returned my calls. I’ll know in more when I go in ...
A PLETHORA OF DOCTORS
The good pulmonary surgeon. I’m sure this happens too many of us today. The modern insurance set up leads the Primary Care doctor to now pass the buck to the experts. I did ask mine to s...
WHITE
A Blue living room. 2018. More rain was forecast, but we see only small showers. I plan to spend my day running up and down stairs. Unromantic stuff. The forecast thunder storms bribe...
FEAR
Ocean Beach by tower 1. 1981. • I’m feeling self-centered today. Diet started, groceries bought, and dishes washed. • LOL • The code for the problem on the car is for the Torque C...
ALMOST SPRING
Tower 4: 1981, Warm, sunny, and glorious. These last few days of winter really feel like spring. Glorious blue skies, warmth…joyful stuff. We loaded the truck up to the very top and drove north....
SOMETIMES SLOWLY
I tidied books today at work. The usual art, architecture, photography, plays, poetry, and short stories on one isle. Children’s on another isle. I’m learning, and they are awfully nice to me...
COMING TOGETHER
It says in my journal that Richard was in town with his best friend Ken. Perhaps it was the last time they were down together before Ken died. I didn’t die. Preop for my knee today. Perhaps ...
MORE BITS AND BOBS
1978. My brick and board bookcase filled. Abbott St. • The books, CD’s, and DVD’s are done. • My closet is done, his is one quarter done. • I managed to get one more bag of magazi...
MUM AND PUP
I was amazed at how many mysteries that I was able to pull from the bedroom bookcases. I thought I had gone through them a year or so ago. There they are, two armfuls waiting in the hall to g...
A CHILLY BEAUTY
Santa Clara Point, Mission Bay. The air is downright chilly. Then again, the chill produces a clarity perfect for taking photographs. And then again, I didn’t take very good photos yeste...
MAGAZINES
Zoe eating her cinnamon roll on a January weekend morning. Wednesday After arriving really late to the dentist’s office, I had a root pulled and stacks of magazines donated which filled ...
