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AUGUST 5, MONDAY
BOOKS, BOOKS, BOOKS Today I went into the laundry room where there are milk boxes full of photography books balanced five high on top of each other. I culled out magazines and damaged books and filled three boxes with thick
AUGUST 5, MONDAY
BOOKS, BOOKS, BOOKS Today I went into the laundry room where there are milk boxes full of photography books balanced five high on top of each other. I culled out magazines and damaged books and filled three boxes with thick
AUGUST 4, SUNDAY
INGLES FAMILY FUN DAY AT MCCORMICK FIELD Today I went with my son-in=law Todd and our mutual friend Randall and his son Laird and Laird’s father-in-law to the baseball game at McCormick Field in Asheville. The temperature was 85 F
AUGUST 4, SUNDAY
INGLES FAMILY FUN DAY AT MCCORMICK FIELD Today I went with my son-in=law Todd and our mutual friend Randall and his son Laird and Laird’s father-in-law to the baseball game at McCormick Field in Asheville. The temperature was 85 F
AUGUST 3, SATURDAY
PASSAGES I was walking around downtown Asheville the other day among tourists from all over the world and local people shopping. A quite pregnant woman with a kid in the stroller asked me the way to Prichard Park. It was
AUGUST 3, SATURDAY
PASSAGES I was walking around downtown Asheville the other day among tourists from all over the world and local people shopping. A quite pregnant woman with a kid in the stroller asked me the way to Prichard Park. It was
AUGUST 2, FRIDAY
OLYMPIC TRIBALISM I’ve discovered that I have the Peacock streaming app and that I can watch the Olympics, or at least much of it. Many of the sports are sports that I never watch, or watch at most every 4
AUGUST 2, FRIDAY
OLYMPIC TRIBALISM I’ve discovered that I have the Peacock streaming app and that I can watch the Olympics, or at least much of it. Many of the sports are sports that I never watch, or watch at most every 4
AUGUST 1, THURSDAY
WEAVERVILLE I joined Susie for supper in Weaverville, just north of Asheville on the way to Marshall. We ate in a Japanese restaurant and then walked up and down the Main Street of Weaverville. I took a few photographs of
AUGUST 1, THURSDAY
WEAVERVILLE I joined Susie for supper in Weaverville, just north of Asheville on the way to Marshall. We ate in a Japanese restaurant and then walked up and down the Main Street of Weaverville. I took a few photographs of
JULY 31, WEDNESDAY
BOOKS, BOOKS, BOOKS Today Susie suggested that I decide what to do with the books in my front hallway that have been there for a several months waiting for me to sort through them. I tried. For half an hour
JULY 31, WEDNESDAY
BOOKS, BOOKS, BOOKS Today Susie suggested that I decide what to do with the books in my front hallway that have been there for a several months waiting for me to sort through them. I tried. For half an hour
JULY 30, TUESDAY
ARGUING Why do we argue? Why do we need to correct someone who sees the world differently from the way that we do? Why can’t we wonder how two thoughtful people who see the world in two different ways have
JULY 30, TUESDAY
ARGUING Why do we argue? Why do we need to correct someone who sees the world differently from the way that we do? Why can’t we wonder how two thoughtful people who see the world in two different ways have
JULY 29, MONDAY
ACADEMIC MAJORS This is a follow up to yesterday’s question about why certain sound waves touch us so deeply. Schubert must have felt fully alive when he was hearing the sounds of music and must have delighted in arranging those
JULY 29, MONDAY
ACADEMIC MAJORS This is a follow up to yesterday’s question about why certain sound waves touch us so deeply. Schubert must have felt fully alive when he was hearing the sounds of music and must have delighted in arranging those
JULY 28, SUNDAY
SOUNDS I have been reading a book, The Immense World, which describes the way animals, including us, each sense the world in a different way. Some are guided by smell and have weak touch, some have acute hearing but weak
JULY 28, SUNDAY
SOUNDS I have been reading a book, The Immense World, which describes the way animals, including us, each sense the world in a different way. Some are guided by smell and have weak touch, some have acute hearing but weak
JULY 27, SATURDAY
FIBER FAIR Susie came to stay with me on Sunday. Since then, all week, she has been sorting through the yarn and knitting needles and sewing materials in Kathe’s knitting room. Kathe had a wonderful sense of color and whenever
JULY 27, SATURDAY
FIBER FAIR Susie came to stay with me on Sunday. Since then, all week, she has been sorting through the yarn and knitting needles and sewing materials in Kathe’s knitting room. Kathe had a wonderful sense of color and whenever
BILLYBABA’S WANDERING 