August 1
1 August Jon and Christin’s wedding at Sculptured Rocks BnB
Bob: 206 lbs.
“All the great world religions contain a complex system of beliefs regarding the nature of the universe and human life that is far more profound than anything that liberalism has produced. We have a whole generation of young people who are clinging to politics and to politicized visions of sexuality for their belief system. They see nothing but politics, but politics is tiny. Politics applies only to society. There is a huge metaphysical realm out there that involves the eternal principles of life and death. The great tragic texts, including the plays of Aeschylus and Sophocles, no longer have the central status they once had in education, because we have steadily moved away from the heritage of western civilization.” Paglia on Salon
Monday 3rd Hot but beautiful afternoon. Dinner at Docks last night. Lazy day today. Headache most of the day, trying not to take an aspirin but I might have to. Too much caffeine? Now 5pm. Thunderstorm warnings around the region. Drink last night at Docks was terrible---margarita with ice and a Corona beer dumped into it. Of course I drank it. Changed one diaper this afternoon. Eliot as cute as possible, beyond. Babbling happily. Emma drew a portrait of her mom to match the one of her papa. Colored in all the details carefully in different colors. Mom typed up the words to Dave’s song and we sent them off to Christin and Jon.
Marilyn Wixson told me at the wedding in our long chat at one time that she’s been volunteering for hospice work for years. We were at one point talking about Doug McLane. He’s now in a second and intense round of chemo for his cancer.
Ran into Ken and Carole and their visitors at Lago yesterday around 4 for drinks with Roger and Patty. Today their crew is off to be long and big day at the shore---Kennebunk etc.
Friday evening. Noon concert went well but we thought Dave’s playlist was too pub/bar style for the place and time and audience. But it was again a gorgeous day and by 1pm lots of people had gathered, old and young. Gail and Flora said hi, Annie Valdmanis, Ed and Marilyn and Christin. Still no birth with Jessica. Monday they might induce or set a date for doing so. Cindy Kaza the surprise visitor. She performs as a clairvoyant all over the world now, married a drummer in Nashville. Her mother died two years ago of a heart attack. She looks like a personality & star. Make-up and black clothes.
We lunched on the porch at Bistro. I hung up the images in the hallway. The kitchen is finished except for the backsplash. Quote from Lowes’ for that is $1500.
Big thought is to copy Enchenoz’s Ravel. Maybe call it Varel.
Varel, it turns out, is a town in Lower Saxony, too. That’s cool.
Paul Varel. ? Lars Varel. Thomas Varel. Jonathan Varel. Adam Varel. Eliot Varel. Kevin Varel.
Kevin Zuber is boyfriend of Else Eaton, from Philly, north Philly. Just laid off from Neat corporation where Else works in HR.
Zuber is a great name. Adam Zuber. Jonathan Zuber. Ludwig Varel. Ian Von Varel.
Eliot woke last night and cried for what seemed an eternity. Definitely has a bad cold, some chest cold too. Cécile is up with him now, on duty. Maybe the kids swap every other day. That would seem to be it. They are supposed to join Jim and Chung wei at Steele Hill Resort today. Willow off to PEO. Daddy may have a few hours “off.” Maybe not, too. Play it by ear and keep the marinade going.
the marinade
Nor should one underestimate the importance of the time spent being inactive. I think it was Flaubert who once termed “the marinade” those countless hours that you while away spread out on your couch, seemingly impassive and dejected, not doing much of anything, certainly nothing of social use. And yet, afterwards, when you’ve finished your text, you realize those protracted moments were not only vital but essential to where you were going.
Aris Fioretos, interviewed (via wood s lot)
http://spurious.typepad.com/spurious/
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Eugene Varel
Veral, Levar, Reval, Velar, Ravel, Levar, Laver
Dream about high school teacher last night, early this morning, visiting campus, showing around. Actor on GH who is a look-alike (to me, not as much to Phil but he hasn’t looked at the show). Power of ancient memories. Too much.
Heat wave. Muggish wave. Breeze outside the window, fan on in here.
Kids want to take the grands for a final dip in the river, 5pm. Last days of heat and visit have taken my mind off the BU visit tomorrow. No more anxiety about that at all. Will wear summer chinos since temps promising to drop at least 10 degrees after yesterday’s 100s in no conway.
Nice final visit to Dox for dinner and ice cream. Arrive about 5:30 just in time to beat the line and for the evening to spread out over the lake. Sunset and darkness later on for the ice cream part. Eliot by then very secure and enjoying walking everywhere barefoot in the sand. Emma happy too. They had had their short dip in the river and saw some older boys swinging on the big rope and jumping in.
Tomorrow Boston and BU and the defense.
from Forbes
What kind of boss hires a thwarted actress for a business-to-business software startup? Stewart Butterfield, Slack’s 42-year-old cofounder and CEO, whose estimated double-digit stake in the company could be worth $300 million or more. He’s the proud holder of an undergraduate degree in philosophy from Canada’s University of Victoria and a master’s degree from Cambridge in philosophy and the history of science.
“Studying philosophy taught me two things,” says Butterfield, sitting in his office in San Francisco’s South of Market district, a neighborhood almost entirely dedicated to the cult of coding. “I learned how to write really clearly. I learned how to follow an argument all the way down, which is invaluable in running meetings. And when I studied the history of science, I learned about the ways that everyone believes something is true–like the old notion of some kind of ether in the air propagating gravitational forces–until they realized that it wasn’t true.”
Dave and Bella clarified for me today that I am the Ringer at today’s events at BU. A huge deposit will show up in my bank account, the off shore one, before midnight. I am nervous enough for a wedding, a christening or any other major life event. Well, major-minor.
Two different friends said Alan Mann does beautiful work, brings the project in on time, under budget and keeps the place clean.
We hired him to remodel our kitchen and it was all true. We are delighted with the results. Alan figured out ways to give us more space within a tight floor plan, listened to us carefully about what we wanted at each stage of the process, and was terrific to work with. Every member of his team performs at top quality. Everyone pays attention to the necessary details. The workmanship and craftsmanship are superb. Alan laid in hardwood flooring, seamlessly blending it perfectly with older flooring in the adjacent room.
Every day the site was kept clean at the end of the day. Everyone showed up on time and at each stage. The flow of
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