1. I spent much of the day preparing for my role as the MC of Bruce Larsen's Celebration of Life and sending out and posting reminders that the celebration is this Saturday, June 13th at 1:00 at the Kellogg Elks Lodge.
2. When I wasn't thinking, writing, and editing, I made a ton of progress reading Lonesome Dove. I like the way Larry McMurtry sets up coincidental meetings between characters and the way those meetings move different plots of the novel along and how these meetings confront different characters with difficult choices to make and also trigger memories of past relationships and encounters between these characters. This book is, in part, about the way the past never disappears and carries weight that characters carry and wrestle with frequently.
3. Even though my beer drinking days are over because of the ways alcohol can interact with the immunosuppressants I take to prevent rejection of the kidney I received, I enjoy it a lot when Debbie is in New York and texts me about a beer she is drinking and where she's enjoying it. Today she texted me from a brewery that used to be called Defiant, but is now Gentle Giant, in Pearl River, NY.
I used to love going there with Debbie, especially because we always seemed to fall into fun conversations with whomever served us and they had smoked snacks that we liked a lot.
So, knowing that Debbie was in that building, near the Pearl River railroad tracks, not far from a knitting shop she really likes, brought back fun memories and I could even imagine the taste of the beer I enjoyed there and the tasty snacks!
Unlike the characters in Lonesome Dove for whom the past is often a weight upon their souls, going back to this past time in Pearl River lightened me, had me yearning to be back at this brewery with Debbie again.
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