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September 25, 2022

 In bed at 10:30, awake around 4:30, out of bed at 5:10, 3 pss, 2 glasses of red  Waking thoughts of Aunt Monica, cousins, Scotty Cummings.  Waking back pain has returned.  56 and cloudy, high of 64 expected.

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Geri trimmed my hair last night with the new clippers after reading the instructions and going to YouTube for some more instructions.  Needs to be cut shorter, will work on it again today.  Had many admiring thoughts of her resourcefulness, her DIYism, and her willingness to try stuff where I would just throw up my hands.  Remarkable woman, a wonderful person.

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I read a long piece on eastern European author Joseph Roth, author of The Radetsky March, The Wandering Jews, and many novels  Born and raised in the shtetl of Brody, northeast of what is now Lviv, Ukraine, but once a part of the Austro-Hungarian empire, and of Poland, and of the Soviet Union.  Reading of Brody and the annihilation of its Jews during the Holocaust reminded me of Babi Yar, of Bransk in Poland and of Dvinsk in Latvia, Rothko's birthplace and countless other Ashkenazi towns in Eastern Europe that before the Holocaust had majority or plurality Jewish populations.  Still and always hard to even imagine the horror of it and what it revealed of the nature of humankind.

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Went to Blicks downtown to pick up some carmine paint.  They had only one brand of carmine, very surprising, but I bought it and it looks good on the Balustrade painting.  The whole Third Ward was booming at 11 o'clock on a Sunday morning.  I thought that if I were in my 20s  or maybe 30s, without children and a need for a big yard and 2-car garage, I'd find a spot in the 3rd Ward.

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The carmine paint is just right, a deep, rich hue.  Made some progress today.