Sunday February 20th I played my first game of bocce ball yesterday and, to my amazement, threw the ball in the right direction, even occasionally landing almost where it should have gone. The court is long and narrow and covered with tiny, smashed seashells glistening in the sun, this one surrounded by orange trees heavy […]
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Friday February 11th Today is the day we have decided to take ourselves out to lunch, down to the biker bar to sit outdoors in the warm sunshine and eat whatever they are offering. Masked and hungry for a new adventure, we were told by Sophia the very chatty waitress, to sit anywhere we liked
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Thursday January 6th. This is the anniversary of the Storming of the Capitol in Washington, and the papers and television news are full of it. I don’t think I can bear to listen to yet another discussion or read one more article. It was horrific at the time, has divided America in half and
Monday January 17th. I have been considering tossing out all my old sketchbooks and diaries from twenty or thirty years ago but thought I should look at them first. I found a series of self-portraits drawn in crayon, from the dark blue and black Critic drawn with fierce lines to the Girl with the
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Tuesday December 28th Alison leaves today, I don’t know how the time flies by so quickly. We sat yesterday evening for our last dinner together for a while. Caz made the most divine latkes I have ever eaten and we piled apple sauce and sour cream on top. This used to be a Christmas Eve
Friday December 24th Christmas Eve It rained all day yesterday and all night, massive, fierce rainstorms that we haven’t seen for at least a year. The mountains received six inches of rain in twenty-four hours, which is unheard of. I left the bedroom windows open, just a crack, so I could lie in bed and
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Monday November 29th I am removing November’s huge calendar from the wall and can’t bring myself to hang January. I usually hang two months at once, so planning takes place, but today dealing with the end of another Covid year, entering the new year of my eightieth birthday, feels too overwhelming. I am not ready
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Friday November 12th The end of the year is speeding towards us again. I have the two large sheets of my own paper calendar hanging on my office-closet door, now covered in large green stick ums as reminders of things I mustn’t forget. Another private concert on a Sunday afternoon to look forward to, various
Thursday October 28th The Santa Anna winds are roaring off the desert this morning again, fierce and warm, it is still a surprise each year as winter closes in, to awaken to hot early morning winds. The trees are bent in half again and raining acorns, the entire hillside is covered in this year’s crop
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