1. Patrick and Debbie continued to work on projects in the basement and they did some more rearranging of furniture between the kitchen and living room. Alas, though, around 3:15 or so, I piled into the Camry, as did Patrick, and I dropped him off in at the Spokane International Airport in plenty of time to board his flight back to Portland.
After I returned home, Debbie and I had a superb conversation about how proud and happy we are that Adrienne, Patrick, and Molly have grown up to be such great adults and that we are also most grateful that Misty is in our lives and a part of our family, too.
2. Jeff Harrison, my longtime friend and host of the radio show Deadish on KEPW FM in Eugene on Thursdays at 9:00, emailed me a sound file of his January 17th show which focused on cuts from albums that came out fifty years ago in 1975.
It's an awesome show that runs for over two hours and features music by Patti Smith, Emmylou Harris, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Richard and Linda Thompson, to name a few, and represents how some popular music began to shift toward disco and punk, but also maintained the established traditions of country, folk, blues, and rock and roll. Jeff's tour of 1975 was eclectic, nostalgic, heart warming, and invigorating.
I listend to a good chunk of it before I left for Spokane and finished listening to Jeff's superb show in the Camry after I dropped off Patrick.
3. Today was Day 5 of the Joy Project I'm participating in on Facebook. I snapped the picture I posted today back in April, 2012 near Eugene's Farmers Market. I had been working for about a year taking faceless portraits of people. I'm not sure, but I think I shot this photograph from the hip and then edited it. I straightened it out. I might have turned it from a color picture to a black and white. I made other adjustments. The mysteriousness of this image brings me joy. So did different friends' responses nearly thirteen years ago. No matter what my friends said, it always had to do with the evocative nature of this picture and I am the most drawn to pictures that are more evocative than detonative. It's rare when I create an evocative image, so doing so was, and continues to be, uplifting.
Here's the picture:
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