[Like I said, this is a hard month. Today would have been our 25th wedding anniversary. (In the contrapositive world, we're having dinner tonight at Campania.) In memory of July 1987, I here transcribe our joint Honeymoon Diary, which I found while digging through the books last week. My writing is shown as plaintext and indented; hers is in ( Read more... )

Today's main project has been digging through some files -- mostly because they are stacked in front of the next bookshelves that I want to deal with. So I'm finally continuing the great filing project that Niki started while she was living with me.

I just found the big archive of papers that goldsquare donated -- a mix of event stuff, formational ( Read more... )

[There are a lot of things I like about my current philosophical outlook, and one of them is the focus on the here-and-now -- don't waste too much time fretting about past decisions or future choices, and for heaven's sake, don't indulge might-have-beens. They feel nice, but they're a fine source of dukkha, usually making you unhappy in the long ( Read more... )

Yesterday's major project was one that's been stored up for some time now: I finally removed my wedding ring ( Read more... )

I'm slowly continuing the Great Book Project, which is going to result in a huge book sale in September -- pruning through both her books and mine, figuring out what I can easily part with. And almost every day, it contains revelations ( Read more... )

[Side note: no, I haven't forgotten the Timeline project. But I realized, a few weeks ago, that Google really does archive all of my chat history. This means that I have *vastly* more actual documentation of the history than I remembered, especially of the early weeks of Jane's cancer. So I've wound up going back and doing a lot of rewriting of ( Read more... )

( Symbolically relevant moments )

( Chemo days )

( Finding the tumor )

( 2005, and my first experience with death )