BOOKS, 33 1/3 ALBUMS, DEATH & PIZZA

It helped to write my last blog

“What Was My Purpose?”

I started writing some haiku-like poetry

In the dark room

a long time

something beautiful develops

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The last two books I read:

The Tao of Jung by David Rosen

 and My Quest for Beauty by Rollo May.

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I’m happy that soon some OLLI friends

and I will be reading at the library. I made a poster.

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Now, I’ve got some crazy idea

to design 33 1/3 album covers

as part of the “nostalgia” kick I’m on.

I paste them over old album covers.

Here’s a poster I designed.

Each one represents a song I’ve composed.

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My new DIET PLAN:

EAT LESS OF WHAT YOU LOVE

I'm sure I am addicted to wheat.

I break down with pizza.

I tried the $8 Your Pie pizza when

they were selling it on 3-14-2015

 for $3.14. (∏ = 3.14). 

I loved it!

I ate two slices while it was hot,

just out of their brick oven.

I brought the rest home and warmed up

one slice each day in the skillet.

Pizza is oh, so comforting,

like a drug of choice.

 I’ve bought one pizza each week since 3-14-15

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REMEMBERING MARGOT

A really good friend, Margot Endsley, died March 30.

Our birthdays were a month apart.

Her death weighs heavy on my heart.

She had a massive heart attack.

I knew her by the authors she loved:

Faulkner, Sartre, Dostoyevsky, 

Ruth Rendel, & John Irving.  

I knew her from the secrets we shared

back in the 60s, when we first met at

The University Women’s Club Discussion Group.

I knew her likes and dislikes.

I helped her plan Dick’s memorial service.

Wed. Mar. 25, (five days earlier)

I had visited with her in her car

in the Kroger parking lot.

We talked about old times, books, diets

dogs, and children.

 She was reading East of Eden.

We talked about death and dying that day,

how we wanted to go quickly.

Last year I emailed her my entire memoir

 and she’d printed it out and read every word.

It’ll probably never be published

but she was the one person I most wanted to read it.

 And I’m consoled a little that I have that memory

 because now she’s gone.

It was the kind of death she wanted.

Fast.

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I still don’t know what my purpose was or is,

 but it has something to do with love & music.

Maybe I'll get my piano solos made

into a CD, finally,

now that I have designed a cover.

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HERE'S THE LYRICS & PIANO SOLO FOR

"BECAUSE OF LOVE"

(I would have loved to have
heard Frank Sinatra record it!)

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This was going to be my blog:

WANTED: Fairy Godmother/Housekeeper/Agent!

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WHAT WAS MY PURPOSE?