We caught the male Coop today. But not before he killed ANOTHER pigeon, an incoming homer who had just come in from a Socorro training run– what a welcome. He killed her right beside the “Bal chatri” trap I had set on the ground in the garden– I thought he was caught, but he flew …
Writerly quote
From Samuel Beckett, sent by Tom McIntyre, and all too true: “I always thought old age would be a writer’s best chance…Now my memory’s gone, all the old fluency’s disappeared. I don’t write a single sentence without saying to myself, “It’s a lie!” So I know I was right. It’s the best chance I ever …
Leonard Cohen 1934- 2017 RIP
I first saw Leonard Cohen play at the Newport Folk Festival in 1967. Joni Mitchell, in an orange striped mini-dress, led him out.He looked like a rabbinical student. He played ‘Suzanne’ as I remember, and I vowed to buy it as soon as it was out. I have bought virtually everything he has done. I …
Recovering
Libby is doing well, although the broken rib really hurts when she she coughs, and she is going to a dentist today to plan tooth repair. To certain complainers: I did not publish unattractive pics of Lib without her permission; I did ask, before I took the photos, and she gave it gladly, in the …
Quote
Lane Batot sent in this quote from “that clever ‘Anonymous’ person”: “Pedigree indicates what the animal is supposed to be; Conformation indicates what the animal appears to be; Function indicates what the animal actually is.”
Maxim
Jameson Parker wrote: “Dear Libby, “After I fell off a ladder several years ago, a friend tossed off the following very wise if unsympathetic observation:’No one over the age of sixty should be allowed to even own a ladder.’ “
Pepe’s Art
My old pigeon partner Jose Morales y Serranno, who met his wife , an Albuquerqe native of Italian descent, returned to Sevilla after getting his PhD in English- speaking writers of the Spanish Civil War. Despite occasional political disagreements- like Pepe’s fellow traveler on the left Stephen Spender, I will never think of Roy Campbell …
Slow recovery
Libby’s mood is better than her face, or her ribs…
Art Show and Catalogue
“Our” art show opened in Memphis this week and by all accounts is a total success. How could it not be with walls like these? And especially paintings like this: !Here is the book, with my contribution. Buy it, you won’t regret it! Thanks especially to the perfect editor and curator, Kevin Sharp; to Toby …
Scenes from George’s Funeral
With sharks: A few of the family: My Georgia brother Mike, self described redneck, horticulturalist and small- time farmer, birder, and maker of the finest preserves know to man, with the twins, Judi and Janine, up from PA: Sister Anita St John with her husband Matt, old time rocker, and daughter Stella. She is the …