On How Life Is

2018 July 5 and beyond

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#116. Macy Gray, 1967, On How Life Is

'This list, of the greatest albums made by women between 1964 and the present, is an intervention, a remedy, a correction of the historical record, and hopefully the start of a new conversation.'

Susan Tedeschi, Evidence.

Thursday, 2018 July 5

'It's hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of lightning.'--Hobbes (Bill Watterson, 1958, comic strip artist, creator of Calvin And Hobbes).

Viola Desmond, 1914-1965.

Weekend, 2018 July 6-8

'All the arguments to prove [our] superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering the animals are our equals.'--Peter Singer, 1946.

had an incident friday night, causing me to lose balance more and drool more, as well as see less, and have less strength in my left arm.

next day, regained my vision. c n g brought lunch, which we had on the  deck

Sunday, 2018 July 8

spent the day at the hospital. diagnosis: stroke.

Friday, July 13, through August and September and into October. Now it's November

back to emerg. transferred by ambulance to toronto western hospital. re-diagnosis: shunt failure. later went to west park rehab. two months later susan picked me up for good. life  has  lowly returned to normal, whatever *that* is.