Cancer Journal

 My PSA level was tested today.  It was again too low to be detectable.  I told the physician's assistant that I must be a boring patient.  She conceded that I was.   While I waited to see the PA, I felt what I thought was a nudge to go pray with a lady.  I followed the nudge.  I don't know that the pray was exactly what the lady needed but we sure had an interesting time talking afterward,  She reported that she hears voices that give her wise council, mainly on art that she does.  She asked me if I knew about "crop circles".  I had a vague idea about farmers' fields having their crops knocked over in an odd decorative way.  Turns out that there is a branch of art that uses those designs as the subject of their art.  This woman does stitching with golden thread on a linen canvas that is then stretched and framed.  She reports that museums are interested in acquiring what she has does.  She showed me some picture...

August, 2022 Missing High School Class Reunions My friend said that she does not go to high school class reunions. I said that I don’t either.  I can guess why she doesn’t. She once said that she avoids all eye contact when she goes into a restaurant. She might see someone with whom she had made out in the back of the room. For myself, I have a fresh recollection of the break after lunch, before afternoon class. A lot of animated fun, easy sociability.  I watched but did not participate. Awkward, sure that my social failings were obvious for all to see. I later went to the library, looked at magazines, withdrawn from the field. "Oh you poor pathetic fellow!"   Ah well.  I survived it.  Indeed, I have acquired an easy sociability with strangers that my sister marvels at and envies.  For my part, I marvel at and envy her capacity for easy sociability with teenagers,  something I never had as a teenager and have not since  mastered.  She wo...