catching up

It's been a very strange few weeks, that included brain surgery for me, some rainy Florida days, John's trip back to PA to close up the apartment up there and bring back his stuff.  I need to get this blog into active mode again, so here goes.

This is the photo from my first room at the University of Miami Hospital where they took a fairly large tumor (yes, it was breast cancer) from my head.

I knew this was a good photo - Dish material - so I submitted and sure enough, Andrew Sullivan ran it as a View from Your Window a couple of weeks later ...

http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/2013/09/21/the-view-from-your-window-302/

John settled in to be an excellent nurse, cook and dog walker.  Who knows how I would have made it without him!

A week after the surgery, while I was still revved up on steroids, we ventured down to WPB for the Harmonies from the Heart concert.

 This is Norman, who has such a rich, deep sense about him.  He is like an Old Testament prophet.

 These are the meatballs we made one night.

This is how I looked a week after brain surgery.  I had not yet crashed from the steroid withdrawal.

 And this is the lovely Harriet Himmel Theatre at night.

so the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing ...

Love this.   Wanted to put it here because there's a lot of wisdom in it for me.

a new page (or chapter, or something)

We've definitely turned a corner and it's time to get yet another blog going, at least as a place to collect and note what we're doing and seeing and where we are.  As I tell Eric, if you're going to take digital photos you have to collect and store them somewhere, somehow, otherwise they're going to get lost in the shuffle.

I'm not sure if that is what I'm doing here.   If I were a serious photographer, I'd keep up a Flickr site.   That seems like too much work and attention for what I'm wanting to do though.

I need a blog-place to keep track of things, as esoteric and all over the place as things can seem to be.  I'm thinking that I might put more of my introspective writings here, that is definitely all over the place.  But I usually get shy about that.   We'll see how it goes.  Maybe just let it unfold and be what it is.

We didn't know what to name this new blog.  I said "time out", because it does seem as we've stepped outside of "time" as we normally know it.   No alarm clocks in the morning, no going to work for John, no real plans for the day -- or even the week or life itself.   Maybe a general idea, but things turn on a dime.  John also said that "time out" sounds like punishment, and this new phase definitely feels more like possibility and newness than anything unpleasant.

For lack of a better name, I'm leaving TIME OUT up there.