Mardi Gras Masks and Beads, originally uploaded by biskuit. It seems a kind of cheating to celebrate Mardi Gras when I have no intention of giving up anything for Lent. Early in the evening I officially commemorated the holiday with a Sazerac cocktail — a classic drink of New Orleans. I listened to Madeleine Peyroux …
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CPMC Surgery, originally uploaded by crucially. My mom is in the hospital this morning, undergoing surgery to repair her foot. She broke her foot sometime last year; she slipped while walking down stairs, and though she barely fell at all she tore a tendon in her heel. The tendon is irreparable, but the surgery will …
An antidote to a pervasive sense of death
Two thousand eight has started well for me, as years go. Lots of work to do — interesting work too. I’ve a least little time each week to spend with family and friends, the weather has been mellow, I’m feeling healthy…. Things are good. Yet I keep feeling that I’m surrounded by images of death. …
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