tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-241644422024-03-16T20:41:55.537-04:00view from the thirteenth floorUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5335125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24164442.post-56701304187936852822024-03-16T20:41:00.001-04:002024-03-16T20:41:05.612-04:00wordses<p>great opening lines:</p><p><br /></p><p> <span style="font-family: Symbol; text-indent: -0.25in;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">In the beginning, and what not.</span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p><span style="font-family: Symbol; text-indent: -0.25in;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">. . . a stone, a leaf, an unfound door; a stone,
a leaf, a door. And of all the forgotten faces.</span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p><span style="font-family: Symbol; text-indent: -0.25in;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">I had a farm in Africa at the foot of the Ngong
Hills.</span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p><span style="font-family: Symbol; text-indent: -0.25in;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the
finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travelers into the gulf
below.</span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24164442.post-86838827250424984182024-03-03T12:37:00.001-05:002024-03-03T12:43:12.726-05:00rocking along<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9nW-rpvrTXY2CQQTEvzTG5gJHIOXHJ_xC6O630S3g2YR1LldmMmL2E651GJExMB1eD6EYoE-k1JLbzg0Qb0DRD4U8z1u8RyTI-Xy_9Vn69BHd7w628V1aJTln7d4OIyMEZMFITDHKCrXD602lvQVtaRdleESMBY6a_ccVDyPiiwOltaTUUgOKTw/s2782/20240303_001736%5B1%5D.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2046" data-original-width="2782" height="147" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9nW-rpvrTXY2CQQTEvzTG5gJHIOXHJ_xC6O630S3g2YR1LldmMmL2E651GJExMB1eD6EYoE-k1JLbzg0Qb0DRD4U8z1u8RyTI-Xy_9Vn69BHd7w628V1aJTln7d4OIyMEZMFITDHKCrXD602lvQVtaRdleESMBY6a_ccVDyPiiwOltaTUUgOKTw/w200-h147/20240303_001736%5B1%5D.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQOKP4r740GYCvrnjhCFyCJkakeydvhz7pbViBCVpFwQR1u_EfYmY5Fqlg3kFfvXeYOAmDneYXDZQXXicTTF0PJB5lB6xjWMkmuOpTFvhy0kHLSFTulTT3h0PtPlMiQw2qUI1GwtYWQzLQFtjp7GpyXKg1SF160l6FPx0IqWAhjS-Am_d4L5zC9Q/s4032/20240303_011008%5B1%5D.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQOKP4r740GYCvrnjhCFyCJkakeydvhz7pbViBCVpFwQR1u_EfYmY5Fqlg3kFfvXeYOAmDneYXDZQXXicTTF0PJB5lB6xjWMkmuOpTFvhy0kHLSFTulTT3h0PtPlMiQw2qUI1GwtYWQzLQFtjp7GpyXKg1SF160l6FPx0IqWAhjS-Am_d4L5zC9Q/w300-h400/20240303_011008%5B1%5D.jpg" width="300" /></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOpd3H19-gDpK3YLqMQuW_ixuNfea4E4wQZzytuZcZKqwRFz8mjSqeXNEvWb1UOcgJflcUU660VQbcUdblxHu5UmVQ-_6idwtv4KnODm9-EfkNOGrrZ0toh0vZq8kmgozTFL7-1UmZ5EfvDva9KpRfDlwR7j7RO2xKbFKNHjFsyk0-LkXlsFwz3g/s3450/20240303_011444%5B1%5D.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2280" data-original-width="3450" height="264" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOpd3H19-gDpK3YLqMQuW_ixuNfea4E4wQZzytuZcZKqwRFz8mjSqeXNEvWb1UOcgJflcUU660VQbcUdblxHu5UmVQ-_6idwtv4KnODm9-EfkNOGrrZ0toh0vZq8kmgozTFL7-1UmZ5EfvDva9KpRfDlwR7j7RO2xKbFKNHjFsyk0-LkXlsFwz3g/w400-h264/20240303_011444%5B1%5D.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /></div><br /><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24164442.post-1450225378879553812024-01-07T00:49:00.001-05:002024-01-07T00:49:08.485-05:00twelfth day of xmas <div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEju55U4Z9vB8S-fnzOTuD6UIxPv851tDbbfBSBC8hnEkmvVFFgs58_UNlR5v0CmvzZz1XLb_7tPTa8YRi0YT06qtpMXJJHxC7Ov7k4MxZZ4qAOL3uGC7vtxNBs66ynrPrckqUQ-y2YPaOMAULHP_jXtJ3xGtz6IDilAF3tz_3qMi59ax3krABF-VQ/s1404/Screenshot_20240105-114021_Messages%5B1%5D.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1404" data-original-width="1080" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEju55U4Z9vB8S-fnzOTuD6UIxPv851tDbbfBSBC8hnEkmvVFFgs58_UNlR5v0CmvzZz1XLb_7tPTa8YRi0YT06qtpMXJJHxC7Ov7k4MxZZ4qAOL3uGC7vtxNBs66ynrPrckqUQ-y2YPaOMAULHP_jXtJ3xGtz6IDilAF3tz_3qMi59ax3krABF-VQ/s320/Screenshot_20240105-114021_Messages%5B1%5D.jpg" width="246" /></a></div>the crazy juggler has been gone for most of three weeks <span> </span>now, but he's coming back monday, if he doesn't get <span> </span>stranded in chile or wherever --- i thought kenneth was gonna die tonight when mary troy (one of his besties) was over here --- i'm sure the neighbors thought i was killing the dog, what with all the baying for joy and what not --- he might really die of joy when he sees the juggler again --- me, too</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24164442.post-87829115910043385182023-12-31T12:12:00.005-05:002023-12-31T12:12:57.955-05:00read, read, readanother year of indiscriminate reading, not quite as prolific as in some years past, mainly because of the time spent working on the
woodruff chronicle ---<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">Rashid Khalidi,
</span><i style="text-indent: -0.25in;">The Hundred Years” War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and
Resistence, 1917-2017 (</i><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">2020)</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Liz Cheney, <i>Oath
and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning</i> (2023)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">***Peter
Frankopan, <i>The Earth Transformed: An Untold Story </i>(2023)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Jonathan
Kennedy, <i>Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues</i> (2023)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">**Joshua
Hammer, <i>The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu, and their race to save the
world’s most-precious manuscripts</i> (2016)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">**Richard
Ovenden, <i>Burning the Books: A History of the Deliberate Destruction of
Knowledge</i> (2020)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">*Ben Wilson, <i>Metropolis:
A History of the City, Humankind’s Greatest Invention</i> (2020)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Adam
Rutherford, <i>How to Argue with a Racist: What Our Genes Do (and don’t) Say
About Human Differences </i>(2020)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">**Barbara F.
Walter, <i>How Civil Wars Start: And How to Stop Them</i> (2022)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">***Jeff
Sharlet, <i>The Undertow: Scenes From a Slow Civil War</i> (2023)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">**Hugh Howard, <i>Architects
of an American Landscape: Henry Hobson Richardson, Frederick Law Olmsted, and
the Reimagining of America’s Public and Private Spaces </i>(2022)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">**James
Crawford, T<i>he Edge of the Plain: How Borders Make and Break Our World </i>(2022)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Kevin Kruse and
Julian Zelizer,<i> Myth America: Historians Take on the Biggest Legends and
Lies About our Past</i> (2022)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">*Stacy Schiff, <i>Cleopatra,
A Life</i> (2010)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">**Christopher
Hill, <i>The World Turned Upside Down: Radical Ideas During the English
Revolution </i>(1972)</span><b><o:p></o:p></b></p></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24164442.post-16830166141098342582023-12-14T23:06:00.005-05:002024-01-07T01:49:35.598-05:00happy holidays<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTL4Te5OTjQHCjH8mEZhMo2YP4s_cUTAm5KnIIzkOdRbgSoUOTUwHIaDzgYheW00FY4FK-4y6QlEGhnF9ey39le7KsoBDGYzw5RLtB3uo5VWbQiPFjFoqAmP9wDAA4MjdUVIuucwVItOeyIh5BTMrJKisyMr0grj5RGaQaAB56oJHULYoq_krauQ/s3648/20231212_232249%5B1%5D.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="2736" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTL4Te5OTjQHCjH8mEZhMo2YP4s_cUTAm5KnIIzkOdRbgSoUOTUwHIaDzgYheW00FY4FK-4y6QlEGhnF9ey39le7KsoBDGYzw5RLtB3uo5VWbQiPFjFoqAmP9wDAA4MjdUVIuucwVItOeyIh5BTMrJKisyMr0grj5RGaQaAB56oJHULYoq_krauQ/w150-h200/20231212_232249%5B1%5D.jpg" width="150" /></a></div>so, smiley left today for another stupid cruise, which they have styled a cruise to antarctica, which is on the big guy's bucket list, so they're taking a cruise to antarctica --- i'll see him again a couple of days after epiphany next --- in the meantime . . . . .<div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcxK5UKMSrUx1BhIeuW7_5G3u5PvjE-jz0jNCx1no74PuPObVPmm3WTr7dFyQZkGSA3olHOY9hExaBbivOBNPGoG9E-YXHaUFNThTm2imfnHdCjxLyfOj_vcVCFld7231m0OSPdQIeexezgWbEG5aAUNlejzH6FT88lBR7w_J_OeSaQJwk_xY8_A/s424/Untitled-1.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="424" data-original-width="227" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcxK5UKMSrUx1BhIeuW7_5G3u5PvjE-jz0jNCx1no74PuPObVPmm3WTr7dFyQZkGSA3olHOY9hExaBbivOBNPGoG9E-YXHaUFNThTm2imfnHdCjxLyfOj_vcVCFld7231m0OSPdQIeexezgWbEG5aAUNlejzH6FT88lBR7w_J_OeSaQJwk_xY8_A/s320/Untitled-1.jpg" width="171" /></a></div>one of the only bits of monumental sculpture salvaged when st paul's cathedral in london burnt down in 1666 was this of john donne, which had been installed within a few months of his death in 1631<p></p><p>as of today, i have a living will, a dead will, and beneficiaries installed for this and that, but have not yet arranged for disposition of my "remains," as it were, nor for any death mask or monumental sculpture --- </p><p></p><br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24164442.post-71107811243092549542023-11-29T20:39:00.001-05:002023-11-29T20:39:09.386-05:00passages<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZRuL1ZVuf_njtEuCic2fzdCgfhkOCKhdSUFGw7M_nxlCTHXbJdVxKW0tvQvkArDLsSdaBVgkrDMhYLTeS8C0avKdvRm6UWxi-zLGW-iQ5paSZITOR1OXjyH-LKibCM0JG_9aJbp-sVBmSCAK8ckE7AMyNEr3oTaBIYwOIIMrFTWlqnNv-nGpgnQ/s1575/1941broadst.tif" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1575" data-original-width="1004" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZRuL1ZVuf_njtEuCic2fzdCgfhkOCKhdSUFGw7M_nxlCTHXbJdVxKW0tvQvkArDLsSdaBVgkrDMhYLTeS8C0avKdvRm6UWxi-zLGW-iQ5paSZITOR1OXjyH-LKibCM0JG_9aJbp-sVBmSCAK8ckE7AMyNEr3oTaBIYwOIIMrFTWlqnNv-nGpgnQ/s320/1941broadst.tif" width="204" /></a></div><br />today marks the eleventh anniversay of iris's death, in her own bed in the wee hours of the morning --- and tomorrow is dead john's birthday --- so here we are<p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24164442.post-16154130580269720752023-11-14T20:36:00.001-05:002023-11-14T20:36:35.898-05:00Dame Judi Dench Masterfully Does A Shakespeare Sonnet | The Graham Nort...<iframe width="480" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/6_0VBS9AOhE?si=6FNsfh4sJYNfFwSh" frameborder="0"></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24164442.post-68709521901355154252023-11-14T19:15:00.004-05:002023-11-15T20:10:55.821-05:00it's been a minute<p></p>i have so neglected this stupid blog --- not that there is anything wrong with that --- i type and post pictures when i feel like it, and when i got something i need to bitch about in semi-public i guess --- but i got nothing really to bitch about beyond the tired old few: trump and blood-relations and friends who continue to support republican politics --- for me, that is a deal-breaker for any relationship ---- otherwise, life is really fine --- nightly visits from the juggler for snuggling and what not --- he is a total fool but at least very smart and semi-sane, and just about the kindest man i've ever met --- and i love him a lot --- <p>UGA press's publication next fall of the coochee history remains on track, and i have wound up the columbus woodruffs' family history project to their satisfaction, and mine --- i might rework it into something publishable, should i get in the mood to do that, but for now it's their's with a fork in it --- </p><p>meantime, i continue to watch the <a href="https://tomitron-sure.blogspot.com/2023/02/rome-toulouse-and-verdi.html">toulouse requiem</a>, as i call it, most evenings</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0FIw0mSR3BVvQKuszlqsq__ZMW78EfFKh_FTOeIOaq3ATVlubcpncuz0vBrtE2Mz-3MK2J8VjFe4jwet8mi0Uc6BV0GL9Lv9rWKbJm9U6-yGG3lQMt3WsBHhy9Ll6rtECUv8-52sdDlE9iS3H8CvV00r9hff_O24de5uPQyOmzKY4Rq_SZL8CvA/s1773/img944.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1158" data-original-width="1773" height="209" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0FIw0mSR3BVvQKuszlqsq__ZMW78EfFKh_FTOeIOaq3ATVlubcpncuz0vBrtE2Mz-3MK2J8VjFe4jwet8mi0Uc6BV0GL9Lv9rWKbJm9U6-yGG3lQMt3WsBHhy9Ll6rtECUv8-52sdDlE9iS3H8CvV00r9hff_O24de5uPQyOmzKY4Rq_SZL8CvA/s320/img944.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>all of the cats and dogs in my house have always gotten along --- at some level, body heat is body heat<p></p><p><br /></p><p>from sinclair with kitty bob</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnET2_ZEXSMWJiuZ4tTOtoinW-R3LgRy89dUg6d3_goW2m0D50KxEaG-cyRIHF4oLC0MfcZCjwT3HIC_ZYyklxe6tMIY867RyfNzY1ibwGbd8Q4XHBAIjYbloK8gHyycz_cTmUS7G_JYFWj4YKO8mpLSlGIY7ln-QuyAmP1mMjoBZ7lrll2y2XPw/s2272/2004may1-A.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1704" data-original-width="2272" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnET2_ZEXSMWJiuZ4tTOtoinW-R3LgRy89dUg6d3_goW2m0D50KxEaG-cyRIHF4oLC0MfcZCjwT3HIC_ZYyklxe6tMIY867RyfNzY1ibwGbd8Q4XHBAIjYbloK8gHyycz_cTmUS7G_JYFWj4YKO8mpLSlGIY7ln-QuyAmP1mMjoBZ7lrll2y2XPw/s320/2004may1-A.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div>to hershey sinclair dueteron with frieda<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgim8w-3w2sao1AzqeJVEEsCujMLE_y2oXSUTQFbwHY8moUCoWW8rNu6tRYDrjA_XcCovYYjaTJ7K6njZfJGs0sxwA9Zd99Jmy6OEtXhKfsMzUPQ_rS7CDJPrVk_sf42iZqXr_2WjYYQm0NUbaAz9S45Rn7xaLPvzLhesKbkh-cEPsLBlj3wOzXkw/s2478/20151118_155945.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1329" data-original-width="2478" height="172" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgim8w-3w2sao1AzqeJVEEsCujMLE_y2oXSUTQFbwHY8moUCoWW8rNu6tRYDrjA_XcCovYYjaTJ7K6njZfJGs0sxwA9Zd99Jmy6OEtXhKfsMzUPQ_rS7CDJPrVk_sf42iZqXr_2WjYYQm0NUbaAz9S45Rn7xaLPvzLhesKbkh-cEPsLBlj3wOzXkw/s320/20151118_155945.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div>to guinness and dex<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnW7i7mSquGUeVg5BW-ri6sWYP9gnZOstvsqnHL9nsd7kREJLPdWNF-e2kXOKMPITw_JUIamz4rv6AkgZKC8XRZHYbGasABH6b-riXa79UGbc_0YV424Rwo054aWDXRyNboKlvn_HUFWPoatSovmkPpnj4gMhkZRVEbZVFhgPELA6DtuIj5aKGAw/s1987/shelfcloud.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="954" data-original-width="1987" height="154" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnW7i7mSquGUeVg5BW-ri6sWYP9gnZOstvsqnHL9nsd7kREJLPdWNF-e2kXOKMPITw_JUIamz4rv6AkgZKC8XRZHYbGasABH6b-riXa79UGbc_0YV424Rwo054aWDXRyNboKlvn_HUFWPoatSovmkPpnj4gMhkZRVEbZVFhgPELA6DtuIj5aKGAw/s320/shelfcloud.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>great storm rolled through while ago --- 40 mph winds maybe and a lotta rain<p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Dog days bright and clear / Indicate a good year; / But when accompanied by rain, / We hope for better times in vain</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><p>coochee is resting or gestating or whatever, quietly --- but i'm deep in the weeds with the woodruff project</p><p>the juggler continues to keep me up late, almost every night, and almost always keeping it festive --- which i like lots better than bailing you-know-who out of foreclosure, for the umpteenth time --- some things fester to a head, and i think my relationship with him is near that point</p><p> </p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24164442.post-79264452383052174852023-07-08T17:08:00.002-04:002023-07-08T17:43:36.329-04:00jerusalema!this made a lot of people happy during the covid lockdowns --- still does<div><br /></div><div> <iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/fCZVL_8D048" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/07/world/africa/jerusalema-nomcebo-zikode-south-africa.html?smid=url-share">https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/07/world/africa/jerusalema-nomcebo-zikode-south-africa.html?smid=url-share</a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24164442.post-11606255730308800902023-07-07T20:25:00.004-04:002023-07-07T20:43:03.248-04:00coochee redux<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgtzZPplr9Zg_E8gi3KqvTQjW0QL2vWRyN1IBBAcXbEyhSWdVMP4jueLDj1cwRRE62-MtaKC88V__xTN05yKF1U4RWzpaux3m0FrHC5dcD4rk80jbKPE-cWg5_zygmIuGkdmT8uvSlUaXW-zUxFjCY43Y0LT2A52DRaNxBf-ZI7ROf7YbsbAyCNZA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="3352" height="181" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgtzZPplr9Zg_E8gi3KqvTQjW0QL2vWRyN1IBBAcXbEyhSWdVMP4jueLDj1cwRRE62-MtaKC88V__xTN05yKF1U4RWzpaux3m0FrHC5dcD4rk80jbKPE-cWg5_zygmIuGkdmT8uvSlUaXW-zUxFjCY43Y0LT2A52DRaNxBf-ZI7ROf7YbsbAyCNZA=w200-h181" width="200" /></a></div>i have not appreciated the value of a literary agent until this coochee project <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">— that was sorta built into NPS projects </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">—</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> i don't know what they paid her, but I don't think I could've/would've plowed through all the forms and permissions and what not that she has, which are just about done </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">— left to my devices, it would have wound up in three-ring binders from kinkos </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px;">—</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">the narrative has survived relatively unscathed, i'm glad to say, but the fact that it is going to see print at all is to her and SNCA's credit entirely </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px;">— </span><br /><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24164442.post-30910728472640779942023-06-21T22:23:00.002-04:002023-07-07T20:37:10.087-04:00swamped<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYxM9MKjg9ZboUMAD04LDmHCq1sa8awtFSjgc6B4ZRgQRmaO4VTn42EnDuUvHkMSX8WE1GUMdcgUNdqJVpnvFYBmQk4hBehXXfGdigbSEvJqQqDB79eVv2yG6FKaKaq_hC3JrWXYrJ8bMFUgrJUm5Q_7j42-HkJQE40WyPWBszl-YCfiDZBwbB_g/s1431/059-JWW1900.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1431" data-original-width="1046" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYxM9MKjg9ZboUMAD04LDmHCq1sa8awtFSjgc6B4ZRgQRmaO4VTn42EnDuUvHkMSX8WE1GUMdcgUNdqJVpnvFYBmQk4hBehXXfGdigbSEvJqQqDB79eVv2yG6FKaKaq_hC3JrWXYrJ8bMFUgrJUm5Q_7j42-HkJQE40WyPWBszl-YCfiDZBwbB_g/s320/059-JWW1900.jpg" width="234" /></a></div>the coochee history is mostly done but still a lot of permissions-to-publish for images and what not <i><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">—</span></i>my "Woodruff Chronicle," tracing their lives from Connecticut to Columbus is now back on the table, and going strong <i><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">—</span></i> james waldo woodruff (1879<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt;">–1963) is the star in the last part</span><p></p><p>i'm supposed to be retired so all this writing and responding to people and what not is driving me a little crazy <i><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-font-kerning: 0pt; mso-ligatures: none;">—</span></i></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24164442.post-13098807595840840732023-06-01T22:19:00.005-04:002023-07-07T20:42:33.230-04:00coochee<p>from UGA Press:</p><p>Great to chat with you earlier today. As promised, I'm writing to let you know that our Faculty Editorial Board unanimously (and enthusiastically) approved your manuscript, "A History of Sautee Nacoochee," for publication earlier this afternoon. Congratulations!</p><p>That means that we'll be ready to transmit the project to our managing editor to get the copyediting process started as soon as you submit the finalized manuscript and art program. I am expecting to receive the final MS and art program by 15 June 2023. If anything changes, please just let me know as soon as you know! As things sit, your book is slated to publish in our Fall 2024 season (think October-ish). If that presents a problem of any sort, just let me know.</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24164442.post-38952016653113193812023-05-28T21:14:00.004-04:002023-05-28T21:15:17.236-04:00<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjgKhBwDHBk1o2R9BxMGB6S4Sm60ZNNCNw7QAd3FZsdMdWhMzodi9QC_rgTDPkdBP0Ygvcd53y-H96s5AvCKDe7ARe6BS_IGWGJLZd31OGuBraq_uXmlhqBCSQiPAMlTIzm_E1YqU-zeRMvdZkRTLSZ6ghJTaY5y1f4rtUO2WyTZ1vjBjcRuVg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="544" data-original-width="1002" height="217" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjgKhBwDHBk1o2R9BxMGB6S4Sm60ZNNCNw7QAd3FZsdMdWhMzodi9QC_rgTDPkdBP0Ygvcd53y-H96s5AvCKDe7ARe6BS_IGWGJLZd31OGuBraq_uXmlhqBCSQiPAMlTIzm_E1YqU-zeRMvdZkRTLSZ6ghJTaY5y1f4rtUO2WyTZ1vjBjcRuVg=w400-h217" width="400" /></a></div><br /> <p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24164442.post-27761283124708735132023-05-13T18:51:00.003-04:002023-05-13T19:19:24.910-04:00coochee update<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZz0orkdzgnnUaJ_us_o20al0zTx-12x-69YLZRo8EX77up52uxEDpFOqv77JxV0U8jz_D1ypZOIn_g1CrlhBVEYkMBo-NJWM4yDz_fhAksBprtmUO9wBLWSqW_h_mTiKtgPJmndijljd3CdfLrY97HXZd3bEcbVd8rymV_KKjzH_SUFFU7L8/s1980/10-15.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="962" data-original-width="1980" height="97" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZz0orkdzgnnUaJ_us_o20al0zTx-12x-69YLZRo8EX77up52uxEDpFOqv77JxV0U8jz_D1ypZOIn_g1CrlhBVEYkMBo-NJWM4yDz_fhAksBprtmUO9wBLWSqW_h_mTiKtgPJmndijljd3CdfLrY97HXZd3bEcbVd8rymV_KKjzH_SUFFU7L8/w200-h97/10-15.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>i revised the manuscript based on the reviewers comments, which were not many, and it passed the first editorial review on 11 may, with a second coming on 21 may — so far so good — it might be under contract in early june — and then copyediting, design, etc. — wheeeeeee!<p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24164442.post-31784048682048382842023-04-05T19:43:00.004-04:002023-04-07T18:04:35.343-04:00a history of sautee nacoochee<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhawxbjdzNTP0sFH-ZTuz5ca5LWhZQ_KtOdJo4-Hd8_iMPCfr4qWdMxrC2Qru9lmPn8DDb6WYkX3foytm1xTM_CgxfEsgchltSfsAu4AmyAdBbKAz1aomt-4H2ElAzIE_ZdA6IJXtHAiMLIdnK2LUBoXdDW3E_hf8g54jjktlq7vOSQhWXXhXs/s1213/coverphoto2.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="752" data-original-width="1213" height="124" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhawxbjdzNTP0sFH-ZTuz5ca5LWhZQ_KtOdJo4-Hd8_iMPCfr4qWdMxrC2Qru9lmPn8DDb6WYkX3foytm1xTM_CgxfEsgchltSfsAu4AmyAdBbKAz1aomt-4H2ElAzIE_ZdA6IJXtHAiMLIdnK2LUBoXdDW3E_hf8g54jjktlq7vOSQhWXXhXs/w200-h124/coverphoto2.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>in early 2014, with me just a few months into retirement, this project landed in my lap, courtesy of an old friend with whom i had worked in the 1990s — in july of that year, the local communnity association contracted with me for a comprehensive history of the valleys, part of a master plan in support of their mission to preserve the rural character of the area — it was the kind of local history i have always wanted to write: literally from the ground up — i started to work almost immediately and, because of "staff changes" and what not, wound up with a more or less free reign with the project — i submitted a "final" manuscript early in 2017, and thought I was done — but last year, they were back, getting serious about publication — they had hired someone to manage the process (thank the sweet baby jesus) — yesterday i learned that the reviewers for UGA press had recommended that that be made so — gah — count me semi-stunned<p></p><div>update!!! letter from the press's acquisitions editor and copies of the reviewer's comments, which were great! one said it was "the best submission I have read for UGA Press" --- it will go before the press's faculty editorial board in may for formal acceptance!</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24164442.post-19678137165907395142023-04-01T12:38:00.003-04:002023-04-06T11:59:42.984-04:00"help! i've fallen and i can't get up!"<p>i am swearing off making fun of old people falling over --- the last couple of episodes i've had made the point</p><p>last weekend, getting up at 3 in the morning to go pee, i fell over and banged the heck out of my head (one of dozens of such tough head-banging episodes that i have had, beginning when i was five or six), took most of monday in the ER (CT scan, etc) to find out that I didn't have a stroke, TIA, or whatever, or broken bones --- but my lower back was slightly sore, which i didn't realize had even struck anything --- monday to the doctor to see if there's kidney damage</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiS6xLLdMp8SKa3pskneF6U7uWaJ_uGi4pY2TyvP9qX7wdheq5Hb-y2ftW86fbjNTBntJNP5skLMGT51C9OC29wxcfopF9GrZaGfXe5Np5FPrvZO9jbuCX0YYm6jqJOdGrNgGg1zds20n1BaUnU0VtoLssh1TH4Jm7V8_pPtiBSZxp9X15wp3A/s2944/20230331_115744%5B1%5D.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2944" data-original-width="2208" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiS6xLLdMp8SKa3pskneF6U7uWaJ_uGi4pY2TyvP9qX7wdheq5Hb-y2ftW86fbjNTBntJNP5skLMGT51C9OC29wxcfopF9GrZaGfXe5Np5FPrvZO9jbuCX0YYm6jqJOdGrNgGg1zds20n1BaUnU0VtoLssh1TH4Jm7V8_pPtiBSZxp9X15wp3A/w150-h200/20230331_115744%5B1%5D.jpg" width="150" /></a></div>he'll have something else to look at now --- thursday evening i started through the little gate that keeps dog off the bedroom carpet when it came out of its frame and fell over with me on top of it --- what a mess --- juggler watched it happen --- <p></p><p>meanwhile the 20+ year-old replacement lens that fixed the cataract in my right eye has failed --- already had a "follow-up" appt with the ophthamologist person scheduled for friday afternoon, but i rescheduled for a couple weeks out --- whenever, they need to go ahead and give me a new lens</p><p>also too, i could use a new cardio-vascular system, kidney, and liver at least </p><p>by and large, i'm not enjoying old age</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24164442.post-88808611031962533292023-03-11T21:22:00.003-05:002023-03-11T21:22:32.113-05:00olden times<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8FQSUy7K33L0n6xaNwsISj07NBS3jIOQlagW8nBFWWPrbQqhh_oMI9M7-wZTq3ZH0QLteQpftcHRKC_PEkbkFq8GCmkB3MKYW6ymKnKdw2g0_e9bCnkigCIs_47fA3lXZeJkdaRW6wzkTKboaybmWZcsVfiHqK7d_DbnMzFS6_McRkeoRaGQ/s2272/125_2526.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2272" data-original-width="1704" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8FQSUy7K33L0n6xaNwsISj07NBS3jIOQlagW8nBFWWPrbQqhh_oMI9M7-wZTq3ZH0QLteQpftcHRKC_PEkbkFq8GCmkB3MKYW6ymKnKdw2g0_e9bCnkigCIs_47fA3lXZeJkdaRW6wzkTKboaybmWZcsVfiHqK7d_DbnMzFS6_McRkeoRaGQ/s320/125_2526.JPG" width="240" /></a></div>gone five years now --- i will always miss him<br /><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24164442.post-43908001876457729832023-02-18T18:10:00.003-05:002023-02-18T18:10:28.134-05:00haw haw haw<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="567" data-original-width="850" height="133" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiEn-zJVCeAgxisaVPhH2lBEySwLHAA2x8LT2GiGvCzP2Ck2K0FL4Wv_hMxyrx5bCQ5PSoDRbalKLQ-j4_QTXKocC2yu76C_ILlepKj9kEke8twUb3qq8CGIb1dHJ_clvFANz6uvkA9DfeZIvZ82moWWMh-UxIZqsD6tXO3vs7seIfvQJwKPkQ=w200-h133" width="200" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal">Le Théâtre Antique d'Orange was built in Toulouse by the
Romans in the first century CE --- in 2016 <a href="https://youtu.be/fjUQ8siaEj4" target="_blank">the city staged a performance of
verdi's requiem here </a>(one of my personal favorites), along with a wonderful
series of images by the celebrated cartoonist Philippe Druilleton projected onto the rear wall ---<o:p></o:p></p><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhn7Fc8vd945AL6dSgOX0sOIWbGLhwvx3TYgsMCqKdCbvFQvPFsocMWBqg5Mky74EAbklRZe3CPZphiJjlvOkiLIFexiR6ge1qQeFyXAs1W_BOuHMl5UitDNsvMPbCoktQE0RaAW_6F0NklGG6nLUxhuArVo9KYNffncN3b8kZzBv66ByH0ojI" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="183" data-original-width="275" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhn7Fc8vd945AL6dSgOX0sOIWbGLhwvx3TYgsMCqKdCbvFQvPFsocMWBqg5Mky74EAbklRZe3CPZphiJjlvOkiLIFexiR6ge1qQeFyXAs1W_BOuHMl5UitDNsvMPbCoktQE0RaAW_6F0NklGG6nLUxhuArVo9KYNffncN3b8kZzBv66ByH0ojI" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24164442.post-44318213755210795872023-02-16T01:09:00.002-05:002023-02-16T14:40:07.218-05:00doncha know<p>One has either to take people as they are, or leave them as they are. One cannot change them, one can merely disturb their balance. A human being, after all, is not made up of single pieces, from which a single piece can be taken out and replaced by something else. Rather he is a whole, and if you pull one end, the other, whether you like it or not, begins to twitch. ~Franz Kafka</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1