Personal reflections on my life and experiences.
When my Aunt Margaret passed in the spring of 2020, there was some unreality to it. The world was on hold at the time, in a waiting room, clock-watching. With the COVID virus stoking fear in anything broadcasting anything, and consequently, in everyone subject to media, workplaces were mostly closed. Daily statistics related to...
Read more →This evening, for birthday 54, I went over to my folks’ house and ate dinner with them so we could watch the Cubs play- the second game of a double header in which they would lose both games. Later in the evening, after the baseball flop, we sat and talked a bit. “Do you...
Read more →That time I sat down to try and write and realized I am better at silence
Read more →I enjoyed going to dinner with my parents tonight. Olive Garden is always enjoyable, if anything for the salad. But it is also time out with Mom and Dad. We chit-chatted on a myriad of things, and somehow wandered across old movies and TV shows, and that led me to mention that Cindy Williams...
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The Gathering of Nations Pow Wow, perhaps the premiere intertribal assembly for North American Indians, reconvened this weekend here in Albuquerque, and for me it was a first time to attend this event. I basically entered Tingley Coliseum and made like a paparazzi, hovering near the main floor (like Tim P. would do) and...
Read more →I was visiting YouTube the other night to browse some videos on landscape photography- like I frequently do when I am looking for some motivation or inspiration- and I can across this guy and this particularly encouraging video. Pat said, basically, “I’m a systems guy and I’ll give you 4 suggestions to help you...
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Titiana, queen of the faeries, swoons with the Ass-Headed Weaver, Nick Bottom. “A Midsummer’s Night Dream” Eldorado High School Keegan Randel, a freshman at Eldorado, apprised himself very well playing the larger-than-life and obtuse buffoon Nick Bottom.
Read more →Tonight, a baseball game plays on the TV. It is my habit to turn one on in the summer evenings, but tonight the game is fairly irrelevant. I think a lot about my body, which has aches and pains in various locations. Issues that recur day after day. My house feels pretty much like...
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It was a pleasure today to go and see my nephew Grant (center in the photo above) in the Eldorado High drama department’s presentation of A Midsummer’s Night Dream. The show was well done, and if not funny for the parts of it we couldn’t understand, it was due to the students who brought...
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