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can’t let the last post stay up on top
Originally published at parlando. Please leave any comments there.
Every time I choke up.
Helen (Velma’s sister) called yesterday as the day was approaching the end. She told me that Velma’s New York memorial had gone well, and she told me specific things that made me feel good, as much as possible.
Velma, she said, would say it went passably. I ( Read more... ) -
read to velma (incomplete)
Originally published at parlando. Please leave any comments there.
We read to each other, at first constantly, then sputteringly, and then, with my stroke, it ended. I’m trying to assemble which fictions that I read to her. (For some reason, it’s much easier to remember the ones I read to her than the ones Velma read to me.)
So, at random, probably ( Read more... ) -
memory and focus, a continuing series
Things I have forgotten or failed to focus on this morning/afternoon:
- Turning on the burner underneath the water for the coffee
- Pouring water in the coffee (twice left for minutes until I remembered)
- Closing the parenthesis on the previous point
- My coffee cup, over by the coffee pot, after I had poured it
- Updating my current webwork (loaded the ( Read more... )
- Turning on the burner underneath the water for the coffee