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February 2nd
February 2nd is a pretty loaded date for me. It first struck a major notch in my memory as the day my grandfather (Dordie, my mother’s father) passed away. I was about ten then, I think, and the date might have been gotten lost forever if it weren’t also the weirdest noted calendar day of…
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Mary Poppins
Julia left for England today after a 2.5 week stay. I suppose she will be nearly half way there. I just made a cup of tea…drinking it alone just isn’t the same. Julia came at the perfect time. It was a pretty low-drama couple of weeks for Vernon—other than the odd call from the ER or the multiple times…
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Thursday Drive 2
When I took Vernon out for a drive last week, it was with the intention of doing it regularly enough to get Vernon used to things like sitting up in a moving car, not succumbing to motion sickness, repeating the experience enough to remember it longer. It’s a journey-not-a-destination kind of thing. My friend Barbara,…
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Surgeon’s Checkup
Tuesday, Vernon had an appointment in Fountain Valley with Dr. Duong, the vascular surgeon, who checked up on Vernon’s arm and it’s healing. It finally had come down from the swelling that began three weeks ago to a nearly-normal size. Dr. Duong looked it over and pronounced his fistula ready to use in two weeks time. I…
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Postcard from Julia
You may have gathered from the blog that I have been staying with Allison and the family for a couple of weeks. Having known Allison and Vernon in the UK I have been following their journey throughout. However I must admit to being a ‘lurker’, reading and waiting for every new post as I am…
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Sunday Painter
Vernon and Joe were all smiles when we entered the room today. They were sat together watching Sunday football, each cheering the opposite team. And they were wearing the same shirt! It happens when you spend a lot of time together, you know. Thank you, Jen, for making the shirts featuring Vernon’s fonts. Want to…
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Bliss
“Here I came to the very edge where nothing at all needs saying, everything is absorbed through weather and the sea, and the moon swam back, its rays all silvered, and time and again the darkness would be broken by the crash of a wave, and every day on the balcony of the sea, wings…
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Field Trip
“I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.” —Robert Louis Stevenson Although bringing Vernon home for Thanksgiving was an exciting milestone of sorts, it wore me out. In some ways, I am only now coming back into the energy I had up to…
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Bauhaus
Julia had a few ideas for Vernon up her sleeve when she came out to visit. Inspired by Josef Albers‘ Kombinationschift alphabet, which uses 10 basic shapes based on the circle and rectangle to create a system of lettering, Julia cut out the series of small shapes from cardboard and brought them to Vernon to see what…
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Julia
My friend Julia has come all the way from the UK to visit for two weeks. She and her family lived down the road from us in England, practically neighbors, so we spend a lot of time at their house and became very good friends. It’s been wonderful to see her again after all these…