Well the library seemed to be pulling out ahead what with a strategy meeting Friday morning

followed by that walk up the creek…met Bill coming down, went on home

to continue with the cleaning and preparations begun the day before…laundries, sweepings, new address out at the end of the driveway, then that night at long last Luz, Christine

and Izel arrived from Canada for a long lat[ish] dinner after their long day in the air, on the road and moving into Dean’s. Saturday, moistly cloudy, began with the news that the film crew we’d been preparing for hadn’t made it out of New York followed by a long late walk up

not so Dry Creek all the way to the wet creek crossing…

The afternoon brightened up before ever more major entertainments consisting of a

Dinner for Eight** of Sonora’s tamales and assorted sides for what turned into, in the absence of Dirk and his director, a triple birthday party for Sibylla, Dean and Linda as well as

 Bobby Meyer who, having turned 70 during his recent cycling trip from DC to La Junta [where Leon picked him up], dropped in at the end as he’s leaving Sunday. Good to at least have had that brief visit…

Sunday came up soonly and brightly, bringing with it another walk with Izel who returned

to spend the day hanging out with Linda as Luz worked diligently in her office while I

experienced some Comatose Moments in the wake of all those celebratory ones, got in a

v. brief studio interlude and then came Monday, chilly Monday with a dead battery

[Cosmos left the light on in the cab], a Desireé Day as well as the Libre Library’s “bandaid day”

wherein a merry band of volunteers installed gutters and covered over the rot for the winter…

That night many of the usual suspects converged on Mountain Water,

giving Joan and Robert opportunity to connect with Luz, Christine and Izel as well

as a feast of enormous proportions,

academic discussions*** and, most importantly, homemade ginger and [decaf] coffee

ice creams. [Other discussions included but were not limited to Beatie Wolfe, instructive publications from Miriam Elia’s Dung Beetle Books, the merits of sundry IPAs and more…]

*Just to be clear; Rosie the Riveter and the entire US military as well as their/our Allies through WWll were ANTIFA as were many – but not all – Americans then and for years afterwards. Seems now anyone who doesn’t approve of Kristi, Pam, OLD or Stephen is a redefined ANTIFA, especially you demonized Democrats; being against Fascism is now un-American and Terroristic. Just don’t count us among those blackclad bomb-throwing masked infiltrators who show up to turn demonstrations violent and somehow always melt away un-arrested; though it’s never been proven I’d say they most likely come from some shadowy government Department of Insecurity.

**In addition to the two of us it was Dean, Sibylla, the BC Three, Luz’ friend John Barr with Bobby dropping in at the end. Nine, technically.

***l. to r.; professor emeritus R. Spellman [Naropa University], current professor C.H. Sandoval [Emily Carr University], professor emerita L. Fleming [California College of the Arts].