Birthdays

The photos guide what I write as much as anything.
Yesterday I went to visit friends Ann and Rita. Rita is 93 and in hospice care at home while her beloved sister Ann is there for her twenty five hours a day. This brilliant woman is losing it all. This is who she was.


Emily, Karen and I went out to my old haunt at Pine Creek this afternoon. We visited with Howard and then hiked across the Serengeti to Zimmershed Creek. The shooting stars were out and it was a lovely day among the blue oaks under a late winter sky. A great time to have a birthday. Tomorrow is Amani’s 13th Bday and we celebrate Peter’s 60th on Monday, Theresa’s 46th on Wednesday. Not bad, to go from celebration to celebration, like a shooting star.

Evanne is a high caliber attorney who looked like a lovely easter egg today. I find she is a watercolorist too and paints in easter colors.

Today we started off with breakfast for dear friend Karen, she who defends the trees, the creeks, the right of people not to be sprayed with pesticides. That Karen. This Karen.