there might be cake

another place to consider whether or not in fact there might about before we buried my father's ashes, his wife told us that we might want to bury something along with the wooden box. people appeared to be considering this seriously. hmm, I thought. hmm. on the back of one of my business cards i wrote there might be cake. on the one hand, this is ludicrous. i don’t even know how much my father liked cake. i don’t think he had a belief in an afterlife, and yet it seemed important, just in case. to send him off with a note of something hopeful. a good maybe. now, months later, he's still dead and I still wonder. [avatar image: Mike Monteiro] there might be cake by Janet Isserlis is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. Based on a work at janetisserlis.tumblr.com. Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at http://janetisserlis.tumblr.com.

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I realized earlier today that it was on this day, (also a Monday), in 2009, that my father had the stroke that would kill him by the end of the week. One thing led to many others, including this blog, including trying on his tuxedo trousers shortly after his memorial, and also led to taking Paul home from Ohio in 2014 after his stroke didn't kill him until a week and some ago and now I know that different strokes really means different strokes and here we are and people are leaving and the only thing I can say about that that isn't selfish is that they were, I think, ready, and we need to just push on. without them. as much as we miss them and wish they'd have stayed.

But we miss them. Especially, if you didn't know Paul, please have a listen. You'd like him, I think.

also, again/still, thank you Mike Monteiro for my avatar.

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SONG PREMIERE: Todd Albright Offers Raw and Rollicking Interpretation of Classic Number "The Fort Worth & Dallas Blues" - Glide Magazine

Todd Albright isn’t just keeping the blues alive—he’s digging into its bedrock and bringing it forward with a reverence that feels both studied and deeply

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this (2023) drawing was accepted to an upcoming Brown staff art exhibit just a few days ago.

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I don't think this is the news they'd anticipated. seen this afternoon, leaving through the hospital after visiting p. anyone know of a side hustle worth 10K a month? the fuck will people do? monsters, murderers, criminals.

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also turkey.

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SFO, between Spokane, DC, and tomorrow morning, PVD.

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so. much. rage.

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the day yesterday.

visit near Boston to see a person's sister, 60, early onset Alzheimer's. I wonder how her young adult children understand this, have understood it, will continue to know it over the three years' decline that I've witnessed, since I've known them.

visit with P for the annual turkey drumstick, (not pictured) and hospice shift from 6 to 8. (also not pictured)

not feeling christmas as such; feeling other big feelings

hoping for what we can make salvageable of the shitstorm to come around the world, and hoping for all we can do to stop it, alter it, make anything better.

hoping you are well, and the people you love.

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there might be cake. there is. there are. many

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October 7, 2023: Hamas murders 1400

As of 21 September, 2024 :

Israel has murdered over 200,000. How is this not genocide?

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None of the choices are ever good; there are multiple reasons to support Kamala; but, given endless war and genocide and US complicity, even that vote is given grudgingly. How can the US continue to arm Israel? How is that not wrong in every sense of what wrong consistitutes?

She'll have my vote because I'm not young enough to believe that Cornell West or Jill Stein can take the office. I want to believe, but I can't.

Worse than anything for one particular part of my brain is the prospect of having to draw this asshole again for four more years. or forever if he has his totalitarian way.

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and he has?

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yes, please. any thing, any one but this.

please please vote if you can

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