Tag: life
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Memorial for Dick
This was an off-hand memorial put together by his friends from his record store. The location was on Market Street at a bar I’d never been to. It was scheduled for 6 pm. The cab and I arrived way too early. Isaac, the driver asked why I was going there? I told him about the…
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Once again
Myra came to the rescue. My screen here had frozen and I couldn’t get it out of Zoom. That’s a relief. Ready for tomorrow’s sister zoom and now I know how to unfreeze it. Whew! Also, I got things straightened out with Netflix, which was too boring to go into detail about. Then I sat…
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Cooking
I have to remind myself not to bother making a recipe I see in a cooking magazine. Lots of work for an eggplant. It came out pretty well, but it took me close to four hours to make. More left overs. What was fun was watching a special on Dick Van Dyke. He is 100…
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John Lithgow
I started watching “The Crown” on Netflix. I thought it might be another rehash of the Diana story. But no. It takes on the history of the British royal family in the 1930s and 40s, roughly. But what stood out was how John Lithgow has really cornered the Winston Churchill character. Churchill has always stood…
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Thank you notes
I have a whole lot of people to thank. So, I got some thank you notes. I think receiving a card in the mail is more personal than emailing them. But, I’m old fashioned. Next I’d like to tell Anthony Robert, who reads my blog, that his writing is very good. Keep at it as…
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Nothing is ‘new’
A professor I had for choreography once told the class we should not approach making dances as if we were inventing the wheel. Every movement phrase has an origin someplace. Where originality comes in is how a turn or lift is combined with music, timing, pause or silence. The possibilities are endless. The idea is…
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27 Nights – anti agist film
I had a day today that made me question if not my sanity, then why are public institutions so cumbersome? So, I was ready to relax with a dandy salad, a cup of tea and this film on Netflix, “27 Nights”. Set in Argentina, an 83 year old wealthy woman is incarcerated in a mental…
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Rainwater Catchment complete!
This is pretty big and great. Six years ago a member of our large live/work non-profit began the process of applying for and getting a grant to construct a system that catches rainwater in three locations, purifies it in a large cistern and distributes it to our garden and neighbors. Any overflow runs into the…
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Miracles do happen
Today Paul and Edith showed up with a new keyboard that connects to my new telephone. It would be impossible to write at length on the mini phone keyboard. At the same time Nick came. He is a young computer genius and he connected everything. Yes, to me it was a miracle. Last night I…
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Cezanne et moi
I’ll make a deal with my iPad. I’ll figure out how to use accents over vowels if the iPad stops messing with my spelling. For example, I just wrote peut (French for first person ‘could’) and my computer turned it into Pete. So, Cezanne doesn’t have an accent over the first ‘e’. You know who…
