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Back in the country, just me and my dad. I’ve settled in at the school house, and I have a fire going and a little antenna up on a windowsill where I can get a single, lone bar of signal for my Verizon wireless card. Hey Verizon: I can’t hear you now. We had a . . . → Read More: Home, kinda. From: Office of H.H. The Dalai Lama Please inform Carol that when I informed His Holiness he was very sorry to learn about the death of Susan Dwan in a tragic accident while trying to save her dog. I have also requested His Holiness to remember her in his prayers. Since she is a devoted . . . → Read More: Wow. We are so far out in the sticks here that I am seriously considering the purchase of 200lbs of corn and 50lbs of sugar, for the purpose of making moonshine. No seriously, folks, I hear banjos. Last night, it dumped ice rain. This morning we woke up to a shiny wonderland of crunchy grass and ice-coated trees touching their tips to the ground. Of course, what woke us was the truly astonishing cold in the schoolhouse. The power and the fire had both gone out overnight, and around 6am, both of . . . → Read More: Power! I’m sitting in my dad’s office, using the high speed internet. I’ve also been taking a moment to hug and remember with the nursing staff, office staff, and other physicians. There’s a lot of love here. I’ve decided that there’s no way that I can possibly respond individually to all of the emails and . . . → Read More: Onward My mom’s obituary was in the Washington Post today. It’ll also appear in the Farmville Herald and in the St. Joseph Michigan paper. Things are settling out. We ran into town today (a 45 minute drive) and got a fancy card from Verizon that gives me high speed internet anywhere we have phone service, . . . → Read More: Obituary Things are holding together here. We had a small ceremony with the nuclear family today. We told stories, sang, chanted, read passages that meant stuff to us. It was really moving. We plan to have a larger, much more open celebration of my mom’s life in the spring, when the ice has melted and the . . . → Read More: Another update I got a call on Wed that my mother had died. This was completely unexpected and out of the blue. My brother and sister drove down to VA from Baltimore immediately. By the time I got the news, it was 9:00 on Wed night, and there were no more usable trips out of Providence or . . . → Read More: Quick update from VA There is no excerpt because this is a protected post. There is no excerpt because this is a protected post. |
