Saturday, August 24, 2024
1941 I was born.
In bed at 9, awake by 1;30, unable to sleep, thoughts of death, dream of visiting George Winzenbergrer's grave with Janine & Mike, thoughts of Lilly, Kitty, parents, TSJ, DSB, RHF, WSR, WBG, . . .I lay awake and involuntarily thinking until about 2:45 when I got up and let Lilly out. Psalm 30: "Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning." Lilly nervously paced once she was back inside.
42 Psalmus David. Judica me, Deus, et discerne causam meam de gente non sancta: ab homine iniquo et doloso erue me.
2 Quia tu es, Deus, fortitudo mea: quare me repulisti? et quare tristis incedo, dum affligit me inimicus?
3 Emitte lucem tuam et veritatem tuam: ipsa me deduxerunt, et adduxerunt in montem sanctum tuum, et in tabernacula tua.
4 Et introibo ad altare Dei, ad Deum qui laetificat juventutem meam. Confitebor tibi in cithara, Deus, Deus meus.
5 Quare tristis es, anima mea? et quare conturbas me? Spera in Deo, quoniam adhuc confitebor illi, salutare vultus mei, et Deus meus.
You can take the boy out of the Church, but you can't take the Church out of the boy.
Prednisone, day 104, 10 mg., day 11. I applied diclofenac to my knee at 3:05 and took the 10 mg. at 6:15. Morning meds at 11 a.m. More diclofenac at noon. Two Lidocaine patches at 1 p.m.
The ninth decade. 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89.
RFK, Jr. has endorsed Trump. He must never have learned from his father, who stood atop a flatbed truck in a Black neighborhood in Indianapolis the night Martin Luther King was assassinated in Memphis and said:
We can move in that direction as a country, in greater polarization … black people amongst blacks, and white amongst whites, filled with hatred toward one another or we can make an effort, as Martin Luther King did, to understand, and to comprehend, and replace that violence, that stain of bloodshed that has spread across our land, with an effort to understand, compassion, and love.
What we need in the United States is not division; what we need in the United States is not hatred; what we need in the United States is not violence and lawlessness, but is love, and wisdom, and compassion toward one another, and a feeling of justice toward those who still suffer within our country, whether they be white or whether they be black.
A shanda fur die Kennedys.
Video call from Sarah and Christian, email from Gerhard, text from Kovacs family gathering.
gk1302@freenet.de <gk1302@freenet.de>
To: charlesclausen2003@yahoo.com
Hallo Lieber Charles...
Wir Wünschen Dir Einen schönen Festtag im Kreise Deiner Familie und Freunde. Zufriedenheit und Glück auf Erden sind das Rezept Uralt zu werden. Das Wünschen Dir von Herzen Gerhard und Olga.Schöne Grüße an Deiner Lieben Frau Geri....
Lieber Gerhard,
Vielen Dank für die lieben Grüße zu meinem 83. Geburtstag. Ich habe vor Kurzem einen Videoanruf von Sarah und Christian erhalten und wie immer viel Freude daran gehabt, mit ihnen zu sprechen. Soweit ich weiß, werden sie diesen Tag mit dir, Olga und dem Rest der Familie verbringen und Peters und Birgits Geburtstage feiern. Bitte richte der ganzen Familie unsere besten Wünsche aus. Ich wünschte, wir könnten bei euch sein!
The wonders of Google Translate!
In my birthday chat with Sarah and Christian, she asked what I would do on my birthday and I mentioned that in my senescence I have two persistent delights: driving through the rural countryside and shopping at Senkik's, both of which I did this afternoon. I drove to West Bend intending to look at chambray workshirts at Mills' Fleet Farm only to discover the store is no longer there. I doublechecked on the internet and, sure enough, it's gone. I enjoyed the ride to West Bend in any case and even more enjoyed the ride back through the Paradise Drive rustic road and other country roads before stopping at Sendik's to engage in my other favorite activity.
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