It's been quite a time these past few weeks. (Nada to do w/Covid.)

My fave aunt's long-term (decadeplus, most of it living together) BF passed away at long last on 15 January, after three (3) years of home hospice, where the last however many weeks (months?) were marked by increasingly worse dementia along w/a host of physical maladies. Apparently ( Read more... )

Photos of Dad: https://www.flickr.com/photos/8146112@N06/albums/72157698815250151Read more... )

So, Dad died on 08/20/18. 'Twas unexpected. He'd been out of it a lot of late, but physically in pretty darned good shape (leaving aside serious frailty). Heart finally gave out, or something. Not clear, but it doesn't much matter ( Read more... )

He was a Dear Friend. He went peacefully this morning at 5:45am. His breathing slowed down like a wind-up toy over the course of 5 minutes...until it stopped.

Great Short Animation-Compilation of His Work

Well, much of today was quite nice. Took a friend out for her first ecstatic dance event and her first visit to Lan Su Chinese Garden. 'Twas way too crowded at the Teahouse in the Tower of Cosmis Reflection (not surprisingly, as Chinese New Year celebrations were in full swing), so we ended up having lunch at Tao of Tea in SE Portland instead. ( Read more... )

Woke up this morning to sad VM msg & e-mail from a couple of my Dearest Friends, one of whom just lost her father, t'other, her uncle (same person). Have spent chunk o' time on phone since. Luckily I've been stocking up on condolences cards. Shaken > Stirred. Saddened. First met L in approx 1979. He missed Tday this year b'c he was unwell. ( Read more... )

More w/the distant "fambily" dying. This time = step(ish)-sister's mom-in-law. I haven't heard it "officially," but my step-nephew R. has posted the dates (b. - d.) w/a nice photo on FaceBook. I'd not seen her in years, but have fond memories of her from past fambily get-togethers (likely most recently R's bar mitzvah ( Read more... )

Child's Gender Finally Revealed

On Abraham Maslow

On RadioLab

Etta James, RIP. And more here. I was lucky enough to see 'n' hear her sing at the Hollywood Bowl several years ago. 'Twas a marvelous show.

Johnny Otis, RIP. What's w/the musical legends dying off right now?! :-(

EDIT: Thx goes to darthsunshine for this one: Dancing Makes You Smarter! ( Read more... )

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