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8 Apr 2023 5 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Before I describe this life changing trip, I should paint two precursors to it, that made the thing happen. The first is a glimpse of my time in the hills, colorful but in part miserable, prompting me to take this getaway Louie and Robin offered,...
7 Apr 2023 3 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
My work up North the first weeks was richly successful and invigorating. The new, very different and intriguing company of ‘K’, the fresh air, long walks alone by day in empty hills, relative sobriety, good sleep and meals which ‘K’ made, (nothing...
6 Apr 2023 4 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
No man and woman in their early thirties, so apart from the rest of the world, so alone and stuck together in a lonely cabin in the middle of nowhere for three weeks, day and night, didn’t think of sex. It would be as natural a thought as eating o...
5 Apr 2023 5 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Life with a new partner. ‘K’ had previously run a small restaurant, a hamburger joint, in some little town up north with her female lover who was such a radical lesbian that she had recently broken up with ‘K’ and moved to a compound of like-minde...
4 Apr 2023 4 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Northern California I see in this record a little bit of development in my own character. I clearly recognized that all relationships come at a price and that in some cases the sacrifice was too costly to pay. The break-up with Lindsey taught me t...
3 Apr 2023 5 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
“Aug. 19th, 10:30 p.m.: Bill joins Lindsey and me and we begin a long and joyful conversation, rich in topics, that rolls until the closing of the ‘Med’ at midnight, rolls down the street to the ‘Au Coquelet’ open till two, where I have wine and t...
2 Apr 2023 3 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
A whole crowd of noisy housemates in the common room. The room on Emerson street was uncomfortably small. The common area, right outside the door to it was often busy with five other residents, all young students trying to finish school. It had a...
1 Apr 2023 2 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Between pleasure trips, my part-time business affairs were rolling along like clockwork. My large amounts of free time were devoted to reading whole swaths of literature. My reflections on the world around me and on life, a long time ripening, wer...
1 Apr 2023 4 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
In July I took an eighteen day trip to the East coast with Lindsey, (in our changed but cordial relationship) to visit her parents, my friends in Boston and my family in N.F. She’d been calling me at Louie’s place in June and we agreed on the adve...
31 Mar 2023 5 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
I’ve never had friends I would have to pander to or go out of my way to please or put a mask on when they came by. Some say you have to work at friendship to make it good. I believe just the opposite. If it doesn’t come naturally and without any e...
