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August 25, 2022

 In bed at 9:30, awake at 3 and up at 3:30, 3? pss., the fifth morning of aching back, high middle.  Streets slick with rain, reflecting garage and house lights, winds blowing.  Thoughts flitting like minnows in a bait bucket.  Iwo Jima, Robert Hartman, PTSD on PTSD, 2nd generation, 'a little peace and quiet.'  'Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.'  The birthday seemed one of those Yatesian (spellcheck says Yeltsin) days, not depressed but low,  despite much to be thankful for, Geri so sustaining, maintaining, caring, so living each moment and each day, Sarah, Andy, Steve, David, grandchildren, Ralph, Ruby, Blanche and Lilly, friends, so many birds, chipmunks, white-tails, so many trees, farm fields,  . . . 

    Read JSonline and WaPo but my eyes are not cooperating.  Can't deal with Wordle yet but WaPo MiniPuzzle.  Rembert Weakland's funeral at the cathedral on 8/30 and I'm tempted to go, if not to the funeral mass (starring Jerome Listecki)😡 maybe to the 'viewing'.  His coverup and shuffling of the pedophiles reminds me of Niebuhr's statement about the morality of groups, circling the wagons, Deutschland Uber Alles.

    Back to bed at 5:30, up at 7:15.  Put the coffee on.  Geri was up at 7:30.

    A smaller headline in NYT: "Marijuana and Psychedelics Use Is Soaring Among Young Adults, Study Says."  Surprise?

    I read the entire feature piece "Louise Brooks Tells All" in the current New Yorker.  Very long.  I've seen Pandora's Box twice and each time was struck by her beauty and her sexual magnetism.  Stunning.  Unforgettable.  Surprised to learn she lived the last decades of her life as a virtual recluse in New York City and Rochester, N.Y.

    Andy called to say that Anne's plan to take Peter to Nicolet to be bused to a JV football game against Watertown wouldn't work because her car wouldn't start.  I picked him up and had a nice conversation with him.  Then drove up to Grafton to gas up and buy a big tube of mixable transparent white acrylic paint at Michael's.  Been thinking of trying a face of Jesus a la Roualt and found myself wondering whether Jesus wore a ponytail.  If his hair was worn long, I suspect he and many others did, to keep hair from falling over his face and eyes.  Never painted with a ponytail and would probably cause some shock if not outrage.  The Savior in a ponytail!!!