On this Sunday night, I am sitting in my apartment four blocks away by scooter to Penn State’s iconic Old Main. You have seen it on television. Contemplating my forthcoming cancer surgery, I cannot help but express my gratitude. My gratitude extends the length and breadth of the Borough of State College under the inspiration […]
Archives for July 2013
Driving to surgery
THE GOAL. Surgery at Memorial Sloan Kettering Hospital where I probably will be cured of kidney cancer on Thursday, August 8th first thing in the morning. The Hospital is located at 125 York Avenue, New York, New York 10065. ++++ ++++ [Readers: Start at the bottom and work your way […]
Art as cancer therapy
I guess this all starts at the Morgan Museum and Library, Renzo Piano‘s 2006 major expansion, his first commissioned work in New York City. This is a good time to refer you to: http://www.e-architect.co.uk/ published daily from Scotland by Adrian Welch and Isabelle Lomholt (who is a beauty). The site receives 960,000 hits a day–a lot more hits […]
The First Psalm of David תהלמים א
Psalm 1 “Why is there so much praising of God,” I emailed Rabbi David Ostrich, “does not God know how wonderful God is? Why is it necessary to praise God so much?” Rabbi Ostrich replied: “ “While there are some thinkers who maintain that God “requires” lavish praise, this is not universal. Indeed, much of […]
July 24 Update: Joanna’s wedding in N. C. horse barn –Volume I, Issue 2.5
On a personal note: I was diagnosed as having kidney cancer in April. Three weeks from today I have an operation to remove the risk at Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. The Big Apple. “The New York Times Building”, 2000-2007, as: “© Renzo Piano Building Workshop. Courtesy Gagosian Gallery. Photography by Denancé Michel.” ++++ Then, I have to recover […]
Having 11 children is likely to wear a woman out
“There is some debate as to the year of Hooker’s birth in Coahoma County, Mississippi, the youngest of the eleven children of William Hooker a sharecropper and Baptist preacher, and Minnie Ramsey (born 1875, date of death unknown [but, I bet, she was all wore out at the time {(My suggestion to Wikipedia)};according to his official website, he was born […]
Getting to my kidney operation on August 8th—Part 1
Getting out of bed (and eventually into an automobile) To travel the 257 miles from State College, PA to Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (known to New Yorkers as Memorial) less than two blocks from the East River in New York City, I have to get out of bed. What follows is a photographic recreation […]
Cancer surgery over–bills arriving
The following update is no longer true: Update 1. Today is July 12th Saturday. In two weeks I leave for New York for surgery on Thursday August 8th at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in Manhattan. Thanks to many kind readers I have received $1,000 to my trip to New York City to have surgery […]