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today is my 79th birthday and it might be time to catch up a bit. On May 28th I had my big surgery. It supposedly went well and I got three fix ups instead of two - a reair of the ascending...

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This is my 60th wedding anniversary. I got married three weeks before my 19th birthday. I generally think of it as a mistake. I stayed married until my husband died - 22 years ago? I can...

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Sunday May 18th. The day after my mother’s 112th birthday. Four days before my 60th wedding anniversary. Two days before my pre-surgery appointments. Nine days before my big surgery. The oriol...

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GS’s s SURVEY ON UNDERSTANDING 1: There is a common expression - ‘strength of the human spirit’. How do you understand what is meant by the human spirit? I’m not into spiritual things - I’m not...

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I guarantee it will be worth it. (This is a CBS Sunday Monring compilation about the power of keeping your promises and being kind.) I realize most people either can’t get the connection o...

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I was up early this morning - beautiful morning by the way - with the perfection that a day in May can have… sunshine and fresh golden greenness and robins and calves and crops partly planted a...

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Cheever first. You can engage the link and listen to the stories while you keep on doing your internet stuff. Oh and in the night I read from a sad little paperback of Faulkner’s The Haml...

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I Will there be cat puke in heaven? How do you feel about the Afterlife? Do you believe in heaven? Hell? The great Catholic test of Purgatory? I’m pretty sure this is all there is. In a...

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Prep appointment May 20th. Big surgery May 27th. The other stuff can wait.

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… of my thyroid. I have been ignoring messages from pulmonary about nodes (or nodules - I’m not sure which - or what the difference is anyway) on my lungs. I am so tired of this. I h...

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Trip to LaCrosse went pretty well. We crossed the Lansing bridge - the new one is being built just north of the old one and it’s always fun to cross the old one. When I was a kid it was closed...

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It’s getting light. The dark bare trees are black against a gray sky. The washer in the basement is rumbling. Do you know how long it takes to wash a load of clothes? I never do. I have...

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I wonder what kind of friend I want to be? What kind of friend I want to have? I can get my feelings hurt - what an old time expression that is - hurt feelings? But still feelings exist, and...

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Two Edith Wharton stories. Sometims when you have some time, these are lovely to listen to… Both are good, the second one a bit more romantic - it has dogs. https://images.app.goo.gl/i7...

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… seems like we’re having more of them. Full moons and ladybugs. I know that makes no sense. But it seems t rue to me. Yesterday was the first time in a long time with both a new New ...

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I made it through day of three of dentistry. They were very kind and capable. And a first! They asked me what kind of music I’d like to listen to - not through headphones - but it was too ...

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I almost opened a new account in Facebook today. I haven’t been able to get into my old one since I got my new computer and lost the old one’s memory of my password. I have had mixed feeling...

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Today is the day after my surgery if I’d had it. I just had a talk with Jim and he thinks it will be coming again soon. I had myself semi-psyched for it and the idea of it having been done if I...

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I came across two house cleaning videos yesterday. One was from our Canadian friend - The other was from a guy I discovered on my own. Don’t bother either watching the videos or readi...

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… and why I do it… I’ve left this window/tab open for a couple hours. I had an idea when I began it and I’m not sure when and where it went. I think I meant to write a little bit about a lo...

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… from having my seven teeth pulled - five from my top canine back and two bottom teeth kind of in the middle underneath them. I had nitrous oxide which kind of distances me from what’s going...

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I am a night person. Not always, but often enough. I’m awake. I was in bed with my books, browsing, but not I’m in the kitchen. I just sliced a sweet potato and a regular potato into my...

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Salter: “I’ve made an effort to nurture the feminine in myself. I don’t mean overtly, but in terms of response to things. Perhaps that’s what we’re talking about. I am happy with my gender, but ...

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I’ll come back and explain for those who can’t watch. It’s later and I’m back. The above video is from the CBS Sunday Morning Show. CBS was the network of my childhood and most of the year...

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I’m reading some Updike stories. I love short stories. I like the way they tell so much - it’s as if you get the whole life story in short form - like a good sandwich. I regret letting tha...

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