January 20, 2014 at 8:32pm ( Read more... )

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1. What did you do in 2012 that you'd never done before?

Found a friend of 20+ years I'd been caring for from June 25 - July 16 following knee surgery dead at his flat after I had talked to him on the phone a few hours earlier - yeah, my first "live" dead person - so to speak - and I've never found a friend dead before - it's gotta get better from ( Read more... )

My days, of late, have had, if not a hundred pocketses, quite a few. And not all that many which might be thought of as a fulfilment of the Chines imprecation "May you live in interesting times," I am of course: concerned about my brother Jonathan; empathetic/ sympathetic with my Ffriends Barbara and Jo who have both lost the father of their ( Read more... )

I might be in Baden ( Read more... )

Earlier today I finished hosting the senior class of Olney Friends School for seventy-two+ hours - it's like being an honorary uncle to double the nieces/nephews I have irl . . . but they all (eventually!) go home. But the house (with twenty-two rooms, eight fireplaces, and six bathrooms} and I had quite the good time . . . as the golf great ( ( Read more... )

My Brother Jonathan . . . the only reason I know this is a film title is that my friend in Ireland referenced it after i had referred to "my brother Jonathan" in letters. I hope he has a good holiday weekend. He's married to his junior high school sweetheart, has three great kids - Megan Ammi just got married last summer - and last month he had his ( Read more... )

Maybe the sun gave me the pow'r,
For I could swim Loch Lomond and be home in half an hour.
Maybe the air gave me the drive,
For I'm all aglow and alive.
What a day this has been! What a rare mood I'm in!

Well, no - it's not been almost like being in love - it's more like . . . oh, death warmed over, mebbe . . . let me jump back to Friday, which ( Read more... )

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/03/think-like-a-doctor-more-than-meets-the-eye/Read more... )

I counted about two hundred daffodils of four varieties on the grounds today. That wouldn't have been the case on this date in 2011 as the maximum temperature was 32F, snowing the day before through the day after ( Read more... )