December
Time flies! The only way I can imagine keeping a blog is to manage to write a little bit or a lot in it every couple of days. Otherwise, as has happened to me in this one, events whiz past and vanish into the dust.
So for December. Probably the biggest positive thing is that my daughter has finally graduated college, Theater Department - Technical Production. Cum laude. She may be the first one in my and my wife's entire families to graduate with that distinction. I had barely gotten my GPA above B when I graduated from Northwestern. We went to the graduation exercises. I felt really warm there looking at all the new students (over a thousand, and that's a December ceremony!) and a little teary happiness thinking about the wide-open future that lies ahead for them. I wish each and every one of them health, happiness, and prosperity in life, wherever it takes them. Then we took her out to lunch to celebrate.
Last week my wife and I went to the neurosciences hospital to meet up with a group of folks who were going to sing Christmas carols to the patients in the psych wards, from little children on up. I really enjoyed being part of a group like that and seeing the pleasure on some of the patients' faces. Next time I'll bring my drum or guitar. There were two guitarists, and they handed out various bells, little tambourines etc. for others to play. I think a nice, deep-voiced frame drum would fit in well there. It was a moving experience for me.
Then there was the optometrist. I had to go because my glasses are getting way out of spec. Nothing that $400-500 won't fix. I paid extra for a new exam that photographed the inside of your eye. They found my "floaters", of which I have only a couple, but also some larger mass behind the retina. I have to go back in 3 months to find out what kind of a tumor it is. Very strange feeling to know this yet not know. I can't feel unhappy, or scared because the official diagnosis hasn't come down yet.
Betty Lou, Ellie, and I went to Greensboro to see a world premier Christmas play at the Triad Stage. The play is Beautiful Star, a play within a play about stories in the Bible, culminating in the Nativity. She did not work on this production. I wonder, I don't think it's about this time of year, but I seem to be more open to the spiritual aspects of things that happen. I guess that I was not ready for this opening earlier in my life, but boy! I sure wish I had been.
We are going away for a few days, down to Charleston SC. What will I find there?
So for December. Probably the biggest positive thing is that my daughter has finally graduated college, Theater Department - Technical Production. Cum laude. She may be the first one in my and my wife's entire families to graduate with that distinction. I had barely gotten my GPA above B when I graduated from Northwestern. We went to the graduation exercises. I felt really warm there looking at all the new students (over a thousand, and that's a December ceremony!) and a little teary happiness thinking about the wide-open future that lies ahead for them. I wish each and every one of them health, happiness, and prosperity in life, wherever it takes them. Then we took her out to lunch to celebrate.
Last week my wife and I went to the neurosciences hospital to meet up with a group of folks who were going to sing Christmas carols to the patients in the psych wards, from little children on up. I really enjoyed being part of a group like that and seeing the pleasure on some of the patients' faces. Next time I'll bring my drum or guitar. There were two guitarists, and they handed out various bells, little tambourines etc. for others to play. I think a nice, deep-voiced frame drum would fit in well there. It was a moving experience for me.
Then there was the optometrist. I had to go because my glasses are getting way out of spec. Nothing that $400-500 won't fix. I paid extra for a new exam that photographed the inside of your eye. They found my "floaters", of which I have only a couple, but also some larger mass behind the retina. I have to go back in 3 months to find out what kind of a tumor it is. Very strange feeling to know this yet not know. I can't feel unhappy, or scared because the official diagnosis hasn't come down yet.
Betty Lou, Ellie, and I went to Greensboro to see a world premier Christmas play at the Triad Stage. The play is Beautiful Star, a play within a play about stories in the Bible, culminating in the Nativity. She did not work on this production. I wonder, I don't think it's about this time of year, but I seem to be more open to the spiritual aspects of things that happen. I guess that I was not ready for this opening earlier in my life, but boy! I sure wish I had been.
We are going away for a few days, down to Charleston SC. What will I find there?
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