Spring Awakening Moon
OK. Turns out I had read the numbers right. No sudden shower of wealth. No happy Buddha of good fortune. Also, no tears. We have enough, more than most. We have each other, family, the dogs, our property, our friends, our creative work. And our Latin. None of that changes, so the amount of money is just what it is. Still, that brief interlude when we thought we had an unexpected windfall made us realize that we could absorb any amount of extra cash. Big surprise there, eh?
In for my 6 month eye exam. A space invaders day with visual field dots and the clicker. The machine thought I pressed the button too frequently, but I just followed the tech’s suggestion to press the clicker when I thought I saw something. My pressures are normal, my nerve unchanged. Jane West, my eye doc, said, “Someone else might look at this and say its physiologic.” How’s that? “That you were just born with unusual nerves. Still, they’re round and they stay the same from photograph to photograph.” They took portraits of my retina’s every once in a while. Physiologic, eh? Explains a lot.
Home. Reread my e-mails. Oops. Education for an exhibition I’m touring, Until Now. So, brief nap, back in the car, back into the city. I spent an hour after the education wandering the museum, looking at the Art Remix objects. I have a Remix tour on May 6th.
I also checked out two print shows, The Wild Things and Old Testament prints. These are well worth catching. Prints are the ephemerals of the museum, their sensitivity to light means their exhibition has limits. They can’t be exposed to even dull light for very long. So they come up, like daffodils, hang out for a brief time, then they’re gone, often not to be seen again for years.
Kate went to see the back surgeon today. He thinks her right hip pain may well respond to a hip replacement. I hope so. This has gotten pretty bad, too. It’s not as bad as it was, but before was really bad. More tests. More doctor’s appointments. Still, perhaps a little hope at the end of the tunnel.
