"No restrictions" but better not have a brisk 2 mile walk. The blood may rush down the leg and not be able to get back up.

 

No restrictions = bad advice, it seems

 Up at 5 to work on the Races family book of documents (white, red, black) very happily. To beach before the tourists--striding, 2 miles, very happy. Got back and the leg with the blood clot was swollen back up. Very disappointing.

Thinking of memorable things people have said to me

 The recently dead broker and friend who on our visit to California on August 26, 1996 at 2:30 asked, "Why are you working? Why aren't you retired?" The diary note ends: S.L.O. not ruled out." "Why are you working" was the most important thing anyone ever said to us.

Recently, after it seemed I had lymphoma and might lose an eye, a doctor met us by saying, "I have nothing but good news for you today"--not that Valley Fever is not a very serious illness. "I have nothing but good news for you today."

A monstrous bully yelled, after being caught lying, "When you doubt me you dehumanize me." How will Biden manage a fact checker at the debates? The FC would have to cut off the cameras while he or she spoke?

At a Delaware hospital 2 doctors were gleeful that they could apply what they had learned about middle-aged white men with shingles. They scooted close to the bed and one said to me, "Heavily into anal, eh?" It got me a private room with a view of the Washington Street Bridge.

After knowing me 15 years my teacher said he could get Don Cook to review my forthcoming FLAWED TEXTS AND VERBAL ICONS. I said, "I was thinking Cleanth Brooks." He jerked back and said, "But it's textual!" Well, not just textual.

Late in the 1980s a life-long self-promoter was astounded when I refused to recommend that an agency grant a proposal of his: "But in this profession you scratch my back and I scratch your back." Well, this person had the power to try to obliterate my name, and he did try, but I did not lower my standards. And I am particular about who scratches my back, still.

I will think of some more examples.

Walked the old distance, 2 miles, to 41 entrance to beach, but slower, much slower at end.

 Saw Jan, but no hugging. Mask and 10 feet distance.

Walked a mile--first trip to beach since March 9. Half mile to entrance to Cloisters & back.

 

Lucas was cast in a recurring role in Yellowstone, as a younger version of John Dutton, portrayed by Kevin Costner.

 Oh. I have been saying for years that Lucas should be in a movie with Kevin, and here it has been done. We never pay extra for movies or episodes in a series. This is good. There is a family resemblance, and they both have Southern voices.

Headline: "Families From Port Arthur To Lake Charles Ride Out Hurricane Laura In North Texas"

 Some can afford to try to get away.

Is this going to make Rita look small?

These parishes and counties are my old home ground.

Costner's certificate of merit

 

Richard Costner at Wounded Knee--things you really wish your cousins had not done

 

For gallantry in the Wounded Knee affair, the president has awarded certificates of merit to Nathan Tellman, Richard Costner and William Goodwood, privates of the Seventh cavalry. He has also directed that the pay of these men be increased $2 a month.

Greenville MO Vidette 9 April 1891