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August 15, 2022

Down at 10, up at 5, 3? pss, no vino.  Woke with flitting half-formed thoughts.

    

    For some unknown reason, this morning I got to remembering my "Asshole Epiphany."  It was a moment 40 or maybe 50 years ago while driving to work at the law school, turning off Lake Drive onto Lincoln Memorial Drive, while I was thinking of some issue coming up before that day's faculty meeting on which I knew my view would not be a popular one.  I thought to myself something like "I'm going to look like an asshole" and then immediately thinking that, on that contentious issue "Maybe I am an asshole.  So what?"  I don't know why but it did seem like something like an epiphany or sudden insight into myself, that it was certainly possible that on some issues, some matters of judgment or opinion or values or conviction(s), I was so out of step with many of those around me and that, if my position made me look like an 'asshole', or if I was an 'asshole,' so be it.  I certainly didn't fit in with the prevailing political views of the senior members of the law faculty, all Republicans, all conservatives (in the 1970s sense of the word, not Trumpistic.)

    More news popping from Trumpworld.  Rudy Giuliani has been named as a "target" of the Georgia grand jury election fraud proceeding going on for the last few months.  And the WaPo reports that Trump's lawyers on the 'crazies' team, including Sydney Powell, got access to voting machines in 3 swing states which apparently is illegal.  AND, Trump reports on his 'Truth Social' platform, that among the items seized by the FBI at Mar-a-Lago were his 3 passports, one expired.  True???  Significant???

    We learned today that plans have changed re Jimmy's trip to Washington.  Jordan will be arriving here on Saturday of Labor Day weekend to accompany Jimmy on a Labor Day late afternoon flight to D.C. where Jimmy will stay overnight with Katherine and Jordan before checking into Silverado on Tuesday and being examined by their doctor on Wednesday.  Thank goodness Jimmy and Jordan are very close.  Jordan is wonderful with him and I am hopeful it will be good for the three of them to be living in the same town.  I'm still a bit apprehensive about the effect of such a major change of residence  on Jimmy but we keep our fingers crossed.

    I played around with the flesh tones on my cheesy Modigliani piece.  Results not very good.