The Caregiver's Roses

 

Holding Back the COLD WIND Today

 

Skillet Bread this Morning

 

So which is worse, Trump being impeached or Biden being excommunicated?

 Just when the Catholic Church won in the Catholic-heavy Supreme Court, calling it freedom of religion when it was really freedom for bigotry, the Catholic bishops are preparing to punish Biden. Excommunication? I have driven to St Joe's many many times, three decades ago, and guarantee you that many of the congregants may think insurrectionary thoughts.

I am so old, I keep saying, that I remember when Evangelicals were Christian. What were the Catholics then and what are these bishops now?

I am so old I remember Kennedy in Houston disarming the Protestants about his religion. The bishops kept their noses out of that election knowing the damage they could do.

Beating on Joe now just makes me disgusted.

This redefines the word TRAGIC? Death of a young man.

The tragic incident unfolded at the Moses Lake Airshow, staged approximately 15 miles from Harvill’s hometown of Ephrata, Wash. He was attempting to fly over 350 feet and break the Guinness World Record for longest distance jumped from a ramp on a motorcycle. That mark was set in 2008 by Robbie Maddison, who made a 351-foot leap in his native Australia.

Alison and Sabrina

 

I could not help posting a comment on the Washington Post story of Juneteenth at the Latta Plantation at Charlotte

 Well, everything was wrong from the outset, first item being the attempt to appropriate a Texas 1965 holiday. Have you ever been to the Latta Plantation? Mrs, Jane Knox Latta is a cousin of mine, granddaughter of Robert Ewart. In 2007 I politely asked for a family discount at the ticket counter and was rudely rebuffed. We paid, and a good thing we did, because we got to see fabulous slave quarters, gorgeously spaced and ventilated and, oh my, the sort of house any slave would rejoice in. Now I know what slave quarters were really like and I never have to feel bad ever again about mistreatment of slaves. I wonder if the ticket clerk from 2007 had been promoted to the great planning commission of 2021.  What a bunch!

2 lbs pinto beans yesterday

 

The Context of Parker Works--see bottom of fragment of newspaper--

 

Sendak and friend in Wilmington, Delaware 1991

 

On Maurice Sendak's birthday---The inspiration for his cover picture in the 2nd volume of my biography of Melville--the vines around the window

 

1992--"PARKER WORKS" on a fragment of newspaper in WE ARE ALL IN THE DUMPS

 

Monday, December 17, 2012

A Shout-Out from Sendak and a Shout-Out to Him

In fragments of newspapers which the street boys are using to cover their heads and insulate their bodies in WE ARE ALL IN THE DUMPS with JACK AND GUY, a farewell to Jim Marshall, a tribute to two musicians, and a gesture to me, "PARKER WORKS." Permission to reproduce this fragment not yet applied for.

Maurice is in MELVILLE BIOGRAPHY: AN INSIDE NARRATIVE, all words written before he died. I'm sorry he never saw them.
SENDAK WORKED.

The Outcast, wandering all week, all alone, calling

 

What happens to the pictures that you leave up for a couple of decades

 

Lawn Mower

 

Today: N Y Times "5 International Movies to Stream Today." Look--all Distopian! No. Do I need International Distopia when I have Hawley and Cruz and Paul?

 Who would submit himself or herself to such misery?

Republicans in Texas Know the Importance of Controlling Textbooks. So did Confederate Veterans in 1898. Control What Students Read!! Hurry, Hurry!

 The 1898 CONFEDERATE VETERAN, Tennessee Division.

BELIEVING THAT THE MOST IMPORTANT WORK OF THE CONFEDERATION OF SONS IS SEEING THAT THE HISTORIES TAUGHT IN THE SCHOOLS ARE JUST AND TRUE TO THE SOUTH, THE FOLLOWING SPECIAL COMMITTEE HAS BEEN APPOINTED TO LOOK INTO THE SCHOOLBOOK PROBLEM CAREFULLY AND RECOMMEND TO THE NEXT REUNION DEFINITE STEPS TO BE AKEN WITH REGARD TO THE SAME . . . . P. 440

In 2020 when great ocular oncologists said enucleation and rapid death from lymphoma, we packed up my running shorts

 We were also packing boxes of books to send to the Berkshire Athenaeum and we were up to 80 or so boxes with 10 more packed and waiting for us to have strength to tape them and mail them (rotator cuff damage is the delay now).

But this week the doctor who saved my vision and is treating the DVT said I could take off the pressure stocking (or have the Caregiver take it off) during my 2 mile walk on the beach. We found one overlooked pair of running shorts, but where in the garage is the bag or box of running shorts?

For decades I have bought 5 or 6 pairs of running shoes at a time because I hate shopping every year. So just before the catastrophe of 2020 I bought several pairs. I just found them in their boxes in the garage. Now I have my last car (the 2007 Honda with 30,000 miles) and maybe my next to last set of new running shoes. But where are the shorts?

Learning that you are going to live for an indefinite future is preferable to the alternative, but when you give away or hide things in preparation for rapid decline and blindness and death, you may forget where you put things . . . . 

There was that hilarious moment when I got a letter very flattering and said, "I want to keep this!" Then laughed and laughed because I was not even going to keep myself alive for long, they were saying. The impulse to KEEP is wondrous.

And after only a few weeks of getting back to the beach (in long pants--who wants to play harlequin?) some stamina is returning. And we thought all stamina was gone forever.