City Life

Well, here I am in the city. I enjoyed a lecture last night by Bell Hooks on "Ending Domination: Race, Class, Gender"
I thought it was o.k., but did not live up to the hipe it got. It was a full house and the audience seemed to enjoy her more than I did. She says that without love, our lives are without meaning. She believes that patriarchy is the most life threatening disease of men and that they must be taught, from boyhood, not to dominate. Oh, did I forget to mention that she is a feminist? But she is a good feminist, I am told. She incorporates men into her agenda. Smart move. Men are wonderful.

I hear the mowers next door. The leaves are still falling. The water is dried up. On this day in 1989, Mom was enjoying a partly sunny, partly cloudy day, and she turned on her air conditioner, 70 degrees. Dad raked leaves in the front yard yesterday and today. So she wrote on her calendar.

Ron came by for coffee this morning. Judy called here after he'd been here five minutes or less to tell him to come home. I named her Lucille.

Good day.....