An e-mail Report I sent to some friends—obviously written before my mother died.
April 16, 2015
How’s your mother? Mine’s 93. Her days of photographing a mushroom fairy ring in our back yard are long gone. But my mother is compos mentis or as she’d say in her rural Ontario vernacular, she has all her marbles.
My mother’s been in bed six weeks in and out of pain (back), still on the gin.
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Notes from my recent trip to London
April 5, 2015
Victoria & Albert Museum
Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty exhibition. Fucking amazing. Read the link to the more lady-like Guardian revue.But keep in mind the exhibition is spectacle enhanced by science, lighting, weird bits of birds and sea shells and movie music like Handel’s Sarabande (Suite No 4 in D Minor, HWV 437), which was the theme for Stanley Kubrick’s movie Barry Lyndon. link
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