While away the hours, days, months.
What a long strange trip it has been... New Hampshire (Gilsum, birthplace of Mormon Jos. Smith's mother - that should say something as to) with the not-very-forthcoming cooking position at Badger Balm, all the while living on the Badger owner's property in a cabin at $550 a month.
Now I am in Bedford, Mass, birthplace of... not me, anyhow, although I did attend public school here for a good part (or a part) of my life. Dig this irony: I am in the home of the one half of Badger's mother, one of my favorite homes here in town. Peg Schwerin, the mom, is off to Washington state to be with daughter Joey after dealing with the passing of her husband Charlie (I am sleeping in the exact footprint of where he lay and died) and myriad weddings of granddaughters, both of which are Badger offspring - three wedding for one daughter (two in rapid fire in Provincetown, of which I attended one - more on that at some point - and one earlier for the other daughter, held in Roxbury, NH in a truly gorgeous old New England farm.
So here I am.
Sister Charlotte is dealing with her mortality that is a clicking clock or clicking time bomb, depending on the mechanism at play. Not good. Last Friday I accompanied her to MGH for her last round of Petscans and radiological whatsits, all supposedly leading to decisions being made as to what the next step might be - removal of her right lung being the one expected? She is nervous as one can be expected to be with this looming overhead. It's exasperating and draining.
This week we went, the two of us, on a ride to Ogunquit, Maine, for the day. What on Earth is this place like at high season? Late Septmeber and a Tuesday - busy busy busy. The temps have been very high 80s and 90s - not terribly autumnal, but leading me into some mindset that winter ain't the harsh reality that it really will be.
Shoes? I don't do shoes anymore.
Just got a laptop from her set up here.Viable cable feed that has been unused since... since.
Ta fucking Da!
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