2006/04/07
The Power of Writing, False Teeth, Happy Anniversary
Hey, Margot blogged! Click on a link to the right. It is great to blog. I have always believed in the power of writing. I think about everyone who might possibly be reading this blog. Family and friends, of course, but there are people who don't know me who stumble on this blog in cyberspace. The adventurous, the curious, people who don't have enough to do...no, I don't mean that...I'm just goofing around. It's inevitable that I am revealing my personality through the blog entries, or at least that part of my personality that is my public persona. Some would say that is a mask. I don't buy that. I'm not being false; I'm just not telling all. Everyone has secrets they don't tell. "We do not always tell in the marketplace what we do in the woods." (The Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne) Dennis' blog entries didn't tell all, either. His true feelings were often more complex than his blog entries revealed. But one is always conscious of the reader when one writes a blog.
I called my Dad this evening. I was perplexed that he was sounding quite sloppy, slurring his words. Had he been drinking? Had he had another stroke? I was beginning to worry when he told me that he "always takes out his teeth when he goes to bed." Whew, what a relief. It was only 9:30pm when I called him and he was in bed. I thought I went to bed early! Well, he is 82!
Then I had a nice long phone conversation with my sister. We were commiserating on aging and going downhill. She said she thought she was going to be 53 this year, but she realized she's going to be 54. She seems to have lost a year. I know the feeling. She and I both hope that some day I can move to BC. It would be nice to just go for coffee or a glass of wine with her.
Happy Anniversary to Gary and Carolyn. I think they married in 1961. That means they are celebrating 45 years this year. Congratulations! Wonderful!
I am performing a wedding on May 27th. It's the second for her, the first for him. I am really looking forward to it. I love helping people celebrate the good times in their lives. Here's to love and marriage!
Well, must go.
In spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways.
- Edith Wharton
The Power of Writing, False Teeth, Happy Anniversary
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I called my Dad this evening. I was perplexed that he was sounding quite sloppy, slurring his words. Had he been drinking? Had he had another stroke? I was beginning to worry when he told me that he "always takes out his teeth when he goes to bed." Whew, what a relief. It was only 9:30pm when I called him and he was in bed. I thought I went to bed early! Well, he is 82!
Then I had a nice long phone conversation with my sister. We were commiserating on aging and going downhill. She said she thought she was going to be 53 this year, but she realized she's going to be 54. She seems to have lost a year. I know the feeling. She and I both hope that some day I can move to BC. It would be nice to just go for coffee or a glass of wine with her.
Happy Anniversary to Gary and Carolyn. I think they married in 1961. That means they are celebrating 45 years this year. Congratulations! Wonderful!
I am performing a wedding on May 27th. It's the second for her, the first for him. I am really looking forward to it. I love helping people celebrate the good times in their lives. Here's to love and marriage!
Well, must go.
In spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways.
- Edith Wharton
The Power of Writing, False Teeth, Happy Anniversary
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