{"id":768,"date":"2007-09-07T07:43:33","date_gmt":"2007-09-07T11:43:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/2007\/09\/07\/various-sundry-part-sixty-two\/"},"modified":"2007-09-07T18:06:32","modified_gmt":"2007-09-07T22:06:32","slug":"various-sundry-part-sixty-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/archives\/768","title":{"rendered":"Various & Sundry, part sixty-two"},"content":{"rendered":"

— My cycling chum Bill S commissioned a hand-made card<\/a> for his mother\u2019s one-hundredth birthday. He\u2019s a great guy who shares a lot in common with me. His daughter is a terrific designer that works for Lenox. Her new Urban Picnic<\/a> design is being handled by Macy\u2019s. When she was getting her education she asked me to give her an internship, but the workload couldn\u2019t support it. I regret the missed opportunity to have experienced her talent firsthand.<\/p>\n

— One of my primary community-service mentors, Carl M, who originally proposed me for Rotary membership, recently asked if I played golf, as we left our weekly luncheon at the Danville Country Club. I told him that when I had the available time, I much preferred to be on a bicycle. It was clear from our conversation that he didn\u2019t think much of the sport, but remarked that I thought it was a \u201cgreat game,\u201d and, from time to time, I did enjoy watching the best players on TV. Well, I reinforced that viewpoint for myself over the holiday when I glued down with the head-to-head play of Mickelson and Woods. Anyone who can witness that level of psychological combat without total fascination should steer clear of golf in any shape or form.<\/p>\n

— I\u2019m not sure when I became hooked on short stories. Maybe had something to do with Brendan<\/a> getting me addicted to very concise ones. I shall never read all the great American novels, but I do hope to eventually read all the best short stories ever written by Americans. If you have some favorites, let me know<\/a>. I can\u2019t get over the variety: Wharton \u2014 James \u2014 Hemingway \u2014 Thurber \u2014 Faulkner. And I\u2019m discovering others new to me: Walter Van Tilburg Clark<\/a> \u2014 Katherine Anne Porter<\/a>. I\u2019ve been aware of The Ox-Bow Incident <\/em>and Noon Wine<\/em> (Peckinpah\u2019s lost rendition with Jason Robards is remembered by some who saw it as the finest television ever broadcast), but didn\u2019t recognize those names. Yes, I know… I\u2019m a late arrival at the grand old house of our national literature. <\/p>\n

— I have to admit that, after 13 years of conditioning, all I want to do after Labor Day is draw, fish, swim, relax, and enjoy myself. Seeing the picture of the Adkins Family<\/a> makes me realize how much my nervous system craves some sort of vacation. I decided not to make the trip to Upper Michigan this year. Being with Dana on our silver anniversary is more important. If we can pull ourselves away from the studio, we\u2019re due for our own getaway. What can one say about a quarter century of marriage? I can write a bit, but not well enough to tackle such an assignment. It\u2019s been more than that, too. A working partnership on all levels. An uncommon occurrence in human relationships. Beyond my capacity to summarize. <\/p>\n

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— My cycling chum Bill S commissioned a hand-made card for his mother\u2019s one-hundredth birthday. He\u2019s a great guy who shares a lot in common with me. His daughter is a terrific designer that works for Lenox. Her new Urban Picnic design is being handled by Macy\u2019s. When she was getting her education she asked […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,35,12,18,42,8,16,31,6,10,14,15,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}