HOME AGAIN
I had such a full four day weekend that today my first day back my plan was to sit quietly and do nothing at all. The massive heat wave that has moved to the northeast has Asheville at the fringe. It was a warm day yesterday but pleasant.
My next door neighbors, Don and Vickie Collins invited me to a delicious lunch. That was enough activity for the day.
But in the middle of the afternoon Susie called to tell me that Lee Ann Brown and her sister were coming by for a visit. So I straightened up the living room. Since our vacuum cleaner’s battery seems to have died I took the rugs outside and beat them on the edge of the house so that I would like like a good housekeeper, which I am not.
Their two hour visit was great fun. Lee Ann has a house in Marshall, close by ASheville where Susie got to know her and her husband, Tony Torn. Tony Torn’s father was the actor Rip Torn who was married to the actress Geraldine Page. The house where Tony grew up in Manhattan was called Torn Page. Tony is involved in all kinds of theatrical projects in New York City and is currently acting in a stage play that is expected to run for a year. A year ago when I went to New York with Susie in order for my Indian dentist, who was visiting from Delhi, to attach a crown to an implant he had done six months before, we stayed a couple of days with Tony and Lee Ann and got to see a performance of a play put on in their house. During that time Lee Ann had taken us to the Guggenheim Museum to see a show by Susan Sze that Susie wanted to see and had walked us through Central Park.
But a year before that we had met Lee Ann and Tony in Paris where Lee Ann, who teaches poetry classes at NYU, was doing a poetry reading. And a year ago through Lee Ann’s connections Todd and Susie had spent three days in an inexpensive apartment in Paris.
So Lee Ann brought all kinds of connections with her when she came this afternoon to visit. She is a person who opens up new experiences and is part of the international connections that make me feel alive.
We talked for awhile and then I asked Lee Ann if she would like to see a spatial video of an Indian wedding on my Vision Pro Goggles. She did want to and picked up quickly on how to navigate by selecting panoramas and videos by looking at them and touching her fingers together. So I took her on an hour long visual tour of Germany, Western Carolina, India and Sri Lanka. And then she and her sister, whose name I heard but which bounced off of me, drove away. I look forward to seeing both of them again.
BILLYBABA’S WANDERING 