Well-Swept Yard

  I sold that snapshot. I am sorry. It is a good one and a fine moral lesson. I should have kept the photograph and tacked it above my desk as a reminder and guilt-inducer to stay on track with my tasks.  And this weekend, last one in March 2024, I discovered that I had a second copy. 

June 11, 2018 San Francisco. Visit. Early morning. Thought to myself: I probably need to change money. SF is another country. And that's good. 

Overheard at Magritte exhibition at SFMOMA: "We should use that blue in our hallway"

If, however, Finland has been rated the world’s most literate country, it may also have something to do with a 19th-century decree that a couple could not marry in the Lutheran church before both passed a reading test. “Quite an incentive,” observes Halonen, “to learn to read.” Safe, happy and free: does Finland have all the answers? | World news | The Guardian

Found

The flu can kill millions. In 1918, a pandemic was fueled by World War I. - The Washington Post My mother was eight years old when the pandemic spread to rural Alabama and the farm that the family cultivated. Mama was the only person in the family who did not contract the flu. She was the only caregiver for the family. She remembered that she had to rotate and change bedpans for the patients. Her father gave her instruction on feeding the farm animals. She was a brave little girl.

Were you able to breathe through your ears, presumable you could sense the aromas of sounds. 

There's a difference between "don't remember" and "don't know"

I enjoy seeing this photograph several times a year. Walker Evans

Things we used to know changed. Inconsiderate.