{"id":50912,"date":"2019-06-27T06:31:08","date_gmt":"2019-06-27T12:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=50912"},"modified":"2019-06-27T06:31:08","modified_gmt":"2019-06-27T12:31:08","slug":"family-week-on-shadow-mountain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=50912","title":{"rendered":"Family Week on Shadow Mountain"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Summer and the Recovery Moon<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s family week on Shadow Mountain. Mary is here, arriving Tuesday night from Minneapolis, heading out tomorrow for Minneapolis to see her friend Debbie in Eau Claire. After a brief stop in Indiana, she heads back to London, on to Cornwall, Devon, for a memorial service. Greece for a conference. Back to England, Cambridge, for a conference with Japanese colleagues from her time in Kobe last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/ChinaTown-Thailand.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-50913\" width=\"290\" height=\"194\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile Mark sends missives about Bangkok. He&#8217;s been in Chinatown, Yaowarat Road, the old main street of Bangkok. I stayed there when I was in Bangkok in 2004. A fascinating place with traditional Chinese apothecaries, lots of street food on weekend nights, small, crowded lanes packed with shops selling diverse wares. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Guru, Mary&#8217;s s.o., is back in K.L., Malaysia, defending a couple of drug traffickers facing the death penalty. They&#8217;re tough on drug dealers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/20190609_181943-e1561638423593-1200x2133.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-50914\" width=\"106\" height=\"189\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/20190609_181943-e1561638423593-1200x2133.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/20190609_181943-e1561638423593-420x747.jpg 420w, https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/20190609_181943-e1561638423593-744x1323.jpg 744w, https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/20190609_181943-e1561638423593-768x1365.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 106px) 100vw, 106px\" \/><figcaption>Kep<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The Kep, shredder extraordinaire, goes into PetSmart today for furmination. If, that is, I can find his rabies certificate. No, I know where it is. He still doesn&#8217;t like to be left. He is joyous when we return. You remembered me!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yesterday I listened to Creedence while the Cancer Predator bobbed and weaved around my body-as Mark observed. Keith, who&#8217;s taking the radiation cure for just diagnosed prostate cancer, said, Half done! I&#8217;ll get to half some day, but not soon. Another guy, older than me, gave me a bemused smile, all radiated! We&#8217;re all on death row, hoping to commute the sentence with clean living and radioactive photons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/IMAG0259-e1558272545991-1200x1783.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-50535\" width=\"155\" height=\"229\"\/><figcaption>2014<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Kate saw Gupta. He&#8217;s going to see her again in a month. No diagnosis. She&#8217;s doing so well that getting a lung biopsy done, the only way to make a definitive diagnosis, might interfere with her recovery. It&#8217;s a surgical procedure, requiring anesthesia. If she continues to improve, and I think she will, then any lung disease is not bad enough to justify the trauma of the biopsy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summer and the Recovery Moon It&#8217;s family week on Shadow Mountain. Mary is here, arriving Tuesday night from Minneapolis, heading out tomorrow for Minneapolis to see her friend Debbie in Eau Claire. After a brief stop in Indiana, she heads back to London, on to Cornwall, Devon, for a memorial service. Greece for a conference. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=50912\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Family Week on Shadow Mountain<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,56,65,127,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aging","category-dogs","category-family","category-health","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50912"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50915,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50912\/revisions\/50915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}