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How pleased am I this morning by my Cassandra-like proficiency at prophecy?

Very, very!

Long before the election, I predicted that if Trump won—to be honest, I didn't know that he would win, so! IF—he would last no more than 18 months in office. I wasn't sure if he'd die in office or be 25th-Amendmented, but I was (am!) positive he'd be out.

Vance is the far better technocrat's ventriloquist dummy, & make no mistake, it's the technocrats' world. We just have the misfortune to breathe oxygen in it.

Vance is a lot more dangerous than Trump because he's not insane & brings a converso's zeal to stamping out individual freedom, that true Yeatsian passionate intensity. Vance should be able to push out the diameter of that widening gyre by several miles.

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All this takes place against a backdrop of technological revolution.

For example: Consider the plausibility that the reason the now-Trump/soon-Vance administration is so willing to cut funds for scientific research is because the technocrats are convinced AI will soon surpass and supplant human researchers in most fields of inquiry, rendering human researchers both superfluous and politically inconvenient.

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Anyway, the political theater yesterday was pretty entertaining. Puleeze let Trump & X-Best Buddy stay at loggerheads! I wanna hear more about the effects ketamine has had on Musk's bladder! I wanna hear more about Trump's fixation on pert nipples! (And I mean, who isn't fixated on pert nipples?)

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Apart from following the world's biggest geopolitical bromance break-up in more-or-less real time, I got more of the New Paltz garden weeded:



I'm up to about half. After I'm done, I'll rototill. I think someone had an ornamental flower garden here at one time because I've found so many outcroppings of iris rhizomes.

It is a lot of work. And by 9:30 a.m. yesterday, it was 80° F, so I had to knock off.

I got a fair amount of Remuneration done after that, but of course, it's never enough. I don't understand why I can't knock off 4,000 words in a single writing session. The fact that I can't seems like a singular failure of will.

I talked to various people by phone & text, and no one in person. I am isolated here!

And I started watching The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem, which I like a lot: a saga about a Sephardic family from the time of the Ottoman Empire to the end of the British mandate in Palestine. Such an interesting time in history! The production values are laughable, but the writing and acting is very fine: It stars Akiva, my BF from Shtisel!

More of the same scheduled for today except I'm gonna go to the gym rather than pull weeds.
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The smoke from the fires in Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and northwestern Ontario has hit upstate New York.

The rising full moon last night was blood red.

And the sky this morning looks like a diffractionless opal, a whitish translucent wash with the barest undercoat of blue through which the sun just glowers. I'd planned on taking it easy today anyway, because I kinda knocked myself out weeding the New Paltz plot yesterday.

Before:



After:



Doesn't look like I did a lot, does it? But it was four full wheelbarrows of brambles and other assorted weeds.

Harder work than I thought it would be, & I was kinda achey from all that squatting & pulling. So I figured I'd go easy on myself today. Resume weeding tomorrow, but get there while it's still cool out.

And that turns out to be a good decision because today I'm feeling a kind of generalized air hunger, some shortness of breath with exertion. Though whether that's from the smoky air or generalized anxiety I can't quite tell.

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Said anxiety is due to Icky being even more of a dick than usual.

Last fall, after I closed down my garden in Hyde Park, I brought all my gardening stuff back here & stashed it in the shed because I thought I'd be gardening here this summer.

Then, six weeks or so ago, Icky announced that he didn't want to garden with me. Was it my breath? My ineffective underarm deodorant? My generally displeasing personality? No! It was that Icky does not like to work or play with others.

Fortunately, the good folk at the Hyde Park garden had just written me a love note: We miss you!

So, I decided to go back & garden there again. (And, of course, the New Paltz Community Garden just found some open spots, so now I'm juggling two gardens!) And I transported all my gardening stuff back to Hyde Park.

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Then yesterday, Icky went on a tear because he decided all the gardening stuff in the shed belonged to him.

All day long, he fusillaged me with text: Those tomato cages are mine. I’ve had them since before I moved here. I put them all back there after the season

I texted back, As I said, I brought the 10 cages I used in my garden last year to your shed in October last year because I thought I was going to be gardening here this year. After you told me you’d prefer to garden alone, I took those same 10 cages—they were stacked on the left side of the shed—back to Hyde Park. That’s all I know, Iggy.

He texted: Where are my cages then? I put all the cages I used all of last summer in that shed. There are no cages now. I never saw yours in there.

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This is the kind of petty hammering he does relentlessly & he is so fucking relentless that he usually gets his own way—because who in their right mind wants to spend hours texting about fucking tomato cages?

Finally, he called.

"Look," I said. "We're at an impasse. And I'm at a disadvantage in all my transactions with you since you own the house, so you have the power. Are you interested in some kind of compromise or should we just keep up the text chain till I move out?"

This was said with more bravado than I actually have, of course.

Moving out would be difficult at this point.

I'm an elderly cat lady and the rental situation hereabouts is not exactly clamoring for elderly cat ladies.

On the other hand, I'm an excellent tenant, and Icky doesn't want the house sitting empty for the 20 days of each month he's not on the premises.

And I suppose it's possible that I did grab some of Icky's tomato cages without thinking about it—though I'm certainly not going to admit that to him.

The compromise?

I'll bring back any extra tomato cages and check the slag heap at the Hyde Park garden where old tomato cages go to die. Bring him those.

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The situation is highly anxiety-provoking because it reminds me how little control I have over my life.

Of course, because of the way I was brought up, it never occurred to me that one could control one's life simply by making wise choices. I was a waif bufffeted about by forces I couldn't control! And then as an adult, I kind of mythologized that choicelessness! Turned it into a philosophy. Became fatalistic.

I don't know what the answer is.

I do know many people who have organized their lives around making wise choices, and for many of those people life has worked out well, but for just as many, life hasn't.

The random factor is very, very powerful.
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Had a good time playing in the dirt at the garden yesterday. My strawberries are coming in:



I'm fairly sure Claude is the source of everything that's earthy and solid on this planet:



Neighbor Ed turned out to be in Providence, so my impromptu plan to ring his doorbell and shriek Hi-ii-iiii! was for all for naught.

Instead, I went tromping. Some dead Vanderbilt had a thing for Liriodendron tulipiferae, and I'm so glad they did! The tulip trees were all in bloom yesterday. Though I guess not being real flowers but specialized leaves, "bloom" is the wrong operative verb there:










And the peonies hadn't bloomed yet:



One assumes there must be peonies in Ulster County, but I have yet to see a single one, so I was very pleased to see these:



When I woke up this morning, my computer had come down with a display glitch that irritated the hell out of me, so I started banging systems settings randomly, and in doing so managed to fuck up my computer even more!

It took me five hours to track down & undo whatever random thing I did: It was something under "Accessibility." "Accessibility" is filled with all sorts of deeply weird functionalities.
In the future, I must remember to write down whatever small changes I make to the computer's operating system. My memory just isn't keyed in to retaining random shit like that, even though random shit like that turns out to be absolutely essential to the smooth, background functioning of said tool. I managed to right the most obvious problems, but the damn thing still isn't working well enough for the perfect spontaneous heart dump.
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The Wall Street Journal has an absolutely fantastic article on AI movie-making this morning (which I think I am offering to you unlocked!)

Apparently, on VEO & Runway, you can get AI to model video characters after real-life people if you subscribe at the very highest tier ($200 a month.) As someone whose disposable income is prone to disappearing acts, I have been experimenting with the lower subscription tiers that don't offer all the features, so I always assumed there was a blanket prohibition against using real-life people. As a safeguard against Deep Fakes & revenge porn!

I am very tempted to splurge for a single month, though, to see what I might be able to create!

Maybe I should have a long talk with the cats: Do you really need to eat? And what's up with all those catnip toys? They always end up under the sofa!

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Meanwhile, the sky is rapidly darkening even as I type, and a quick look at the weather forecast affirms we are in for five fuckin' days of rain! So! Do I kill myself now, or do I subject all 4.3 of my faithful readers to five days of angsty rants before I step in front of that speeding bus?

Also, the New Paltz Community Garden finally offered me a space! After I'd already started gardening again at the Hyde Park Community Garden.

I drove to New Paltz to check the garden out. It is really spectacular: five acres, 150 plots, right along the Wallkill River, which floods the garden regularly, providing the garden with that ultra-rich river silt. The whole garden is surrounded by an electric deer fence & an obliging hawk keeps the vole population in check:



There are something like 200 gardeners, a real community. So, I thought, Okay! If you really want to connect with other humans in the real-life here & now, this is your chance! New Paltz reminds me so much of Berkeley circa the 1980s, I figure it's gotta be teeming with sympatico souls.

The extremely nice Plot Coordinator showed me around. The full plots are huge, 20' x 10', and the three he showed me were completely overgrown with (ugh!) deep-rooted nettles that would take me a solid week of hard labor to clear out. So, I settled for a half-plot:



This one, I estimate, will take me three days to clear out. That's doable.

Because of the driving distance involved, I'd already set up the Hyde Park garden to be as labor-free as possible. Planted tomatoes & chili peppers inside a marigold border. Piled on lawn-mowings over the plot to reign in moisture & keep down weed growth. Self-sustaining was my goal!

This garden I'll use for veggies that require a bit more nurturing. Basil! (Gotta guard against premature bolting & aphid infestations!) Cucumbers! (There's a weird kind of fungus that always seems to attack mine.) Flowers! (I ❤️LUV❤️ bouquets in the Patrizia-torium, so consider flowers an essential crop.)

It'll be a summer of hard physical work.

Assuming it ever stops raining.

Apart from all these mundane happenstances of a small existence, I have this sense that things are changing very fast. Planetary collapse? Nuclear annihilation? Dunno. But something.

I can't do anything about what might be going to happen.

So, the feeling is unsettling.
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It was sunny & hot by the time I made it to the garden yesterday. And then Claude showed up! Prize-winning chef and former Culinary Institute professor, raised on a farm in post-war Normandy, to me, Claude represents everything that's earthy & solid.



I weeded very happily for a couple of hours, sowed my lettuce seeds.

And then something weird happened. I got suddenly and violently ill, the kind of ill that it involves bathrooms, of which there aren't any at the garden.

No embarrassing accidents, but close call.

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In fact, my usually robust health hasn't been all that robust lately. My lungs feel congested. I find myself getting somewhat winded when I exercise, I cough up fluid, and when I breathe out, I can feel how stiff my lungs are. Classic asthma symptoms. I hate the way inhalers make me feel, so I never use them; I just cough disgustingly.

I've been backburnering a fantasy that I have some sort of fatal but painless disease! Next time I visit my primary care provider, she'll take one look at me and say, "Patrizia, I'm afraid you're suffering from Amaranthinitis. There is no known cure, but here! Let me write you a script for unlimited quantities of morphine!"

I don't care if I cough.

I do care if I feel winded and weak.

But I probably wouldn't if I had unlimited quantities of morphine.

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I'm still feeling kinda ill today, so I have tabled exercise plans. The day is sunny and bright, so I will lounge outside and read. The fabulous [personal profile] smokingboot sent me Hilary Mantel's memoir Giving Up the Ghost last Christmas; it promptly got lost in bedchamber rubble. Recently, though, I unearthed it again & began reading it.

The first two books of Mantel's Wollf Hall trilogy are among my favorite novels of all time. They have a distinctly mannered style that took me around 50 pages to get used to (50 pages during which I didn't like the novels at all), and I guess I was a little afraid that this mannered style was Mantel's voice—which works as a narrative style for novels set in medieval times because we have to assume that people living in those times thought very differently than contemporary people think. I wasn't sure, though, that it would work for a modern-day book.

Not to worry! Giving Up the Ghost does not use Wolf Hall as a style manual.

I'm also piqued because two separate subscribers to my substack told me my prose style reminds them of Hilary Mantel.

I don't agree, but I kinda, sorta see how they got the idea: I break the fourth wall in sort of the same way that Mantel does. In her prose and my prose, there is a very strong sense that the writer is talking to a specific someone (who is not necessarily you, gentle reader.)

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And, of course, the AI video experiments continue.

Today, I animated the cat marginalia on a medieval manuscript:



I wouldn't say it works. Ideally, all the cats would chase the mice as the mice scamper off the page.

Is the limitation my clumsy prompt or the clumsy AI (NightCafe in this instance)?

Dunno, but I may try the same experiment in Sora tomorrow.
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Everybody I know is going to Europe.

I am filled with FOMO because Europe! Culture! Museums! Ancient palazzi! Civilization balanced on crumbling plinths! The Camino de Santiago! Rivers flowing past castles! People you can't eavesdrop on in cafĂŠs because they are speaking in strange inflections with uvular "r"s!

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Well...

Not quite everyone.

There is that one extremely nice woman I know, 20 years younger than me, who was just diagnosed with a progressive neuromuscular disease that no amount of PT is ever gonna help her compensate for.

And, of course, all those people I read about in the paper—the Gazans being starved & driven from their homes, yes, and that steady torrent of Central American migrants at the southern borders.

But if you want to limit the sample pool to people who share my accent: all those once-highly paid computer programmers struggling to make ends meet by doing DoorDash because by September 2025, 90% of all computer coding will be done by AI. Those senior citizens in their 70s and 80s whose Social Security checks are being garnished because they owe on student loans, and Trump is relentless. (That planned $45 million birthday parade ain't gonna pay for itself!)

Those two last items have an odd kind of synchrony: Colleges & universities are still pushing computer programming as a career, and the best & brightest STEM students are still enrolling in that curriculum—and in the process, accumulating staggering amounts of student debt. Not putting two plus two together, these best and brightest!

I look at these things to remind myself: You have it pretty fuckin' good, girlfriend. And you don't have to fly out of Newark Airport!!!

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Anyway.

The creative high from making my little Mabel-the-Cat-meets-Aslan-the-Lion video lasted two full days. Not coincidentally, those two full days were also sunny & beautiful.

Ah, the thrill of pure imagination! Willie Wonka sings about it.

Then day before yesterday, it began to rain, and it's stayed grey and overcast ever since. The planet needs water, upstate New York is still officially in a drought, blah, blah, blah, but fuck this shit! STOP RAINING.

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I'm obsessed with the idea of making a successful AI movie.

Malcolm Gladwell's observation that you have to put 10,000 hours into something to get really good at it rings true to me.

So far, I have put maybe 30 hours into making AI videos, so it is not surprising my second attempt at AI video production was far less successful than my first.

Although when I put it up online, a singularly creative person I esteem highly texted me: What in the world is this ?? I ❤️❤️❤️ it!!!!!!

We Pure Imaginationists love our fanbase!

I've started playing with AI video generators! I texted back. 'Cause, you know: I don't waste enough time, so I need NEW ways to waste time.

For this one, I took an old 1920s photograph of the Lower East Side and tried to prompt the AI to show a woman walking down the street into the 2020s. What I REALLY wanted to do is turn the color up gradually as she enters the future—but AI won't colorize so I had to do that key frame by hand (rather garish.) Getting the gradual colorization would have required hand-coloring each of the frames: Wayyyyy too labor-intensive! Also, I couldn't find Yiddish street sounds, so I had to use Turkish street sounds.




My first two AI videos were done on NightCafe.

When I woke up last night at 2 a.m., I decided to play with Sora because I read somewhere that director Tyler Perry was so impressed by Sora that he canceled a planned $800 million expansion of his Atlanta-based film studio. He figured that within one year, Sora would have completely transformed the filmmaking industry.

The prompts I gave Sora tried to recreate a scene from my ongoing Work In Progress in which June Miller (better known to Henry Miller aficionados as Mara/Mona) walks away from the Orpheum Dance Hall in Times Square one night in 1932.

I couldn't get the time period at all! I don't know whether this is me being unequal to the task of making good prompts or the limitations of the AI.

But what's kinda interesting is that the character bears a marked resemblance to Uma Thurman who played June Miller in Philip Kaufman's 1990 movie, Henry & June.


This brings me up to 32 hours of AI video practice. Just 9,968 hours to go before I become a PRO! 😀

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Anyway, it is off across the bridge today to weed and plant tomato seedlings at the Community Garden. True, it is coolish. But I think we are done with the frost for the season.
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The garden has been a bone of contention twixt me & Icky.

Six weeks or so ago, he informed me he did not want to share the garden in back of the house.

"I know myself," he told me. "I want to do things the way I want to do things—not that I couldn't learn from you," he added in a gratuitous attempt to sound gracious. (Gratuitous because nothing can make Icky sound gracious.)

He offered to put in a kind of annex garden where I could putter & grow.

I made inconclusive murmuring noises.

The whole thing was extremely weird, I thought: There's such a lot of work involved in planting and tending a garden, why wouldn't you want to share that with someone?

Then the Hyde Park Community Garden folk emailed me asking me to come back, & I thought, Providence has solved my dilemma!

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A couple of weeks ago, he was gonna get one of the neighbors over to tractor the garden (much more efficient than rototilling) and asked me how much square footage I would like.

"That won't be necessary," I beamed. "I found another place to garden."

Weirdly, this seemed to upset him!

Where was this place, he wanted to know. He asked four times; I ignored him. But clearly, he was put out.

The day the neighbor was supposed to come over, it rained. And then she didn't come over on any of the subsequent days (Probably because you didn't pay her last year & made no noises about paying her this year either, I thought. I wouldn't think Icky is close enough with the neighbors to get friendship favors.) This put him in a glowery mood, too.

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Then last night, I got a text from him: Go ahead and plant what you want on the side of the house or the garden fyi. I’m going to be coming up there a lot less I think.

Did something happen? I texted back.

I am not happy coming up there to sit around all week with Gus’ door closed on me. He won’t do anything around the house or with me. I don’t want to be up there under those conditions.

Little Susie Sunshine that I am, I texted back, It’s a difficult situation, yes. But I HAVE seen the two of you bond. I know it’s none of my business but even if he is pushing you away, if you LET yourself be pushed, it’s going to feel like abandonment to him.

I need to protect my mental health, he replied.

What mental health? I wondered.

Of course, I also knew that he was acting out, having the 63-year-old-man version of a temper tantrum, informing as many people as he can about his grievances. I'm 90% certain that he will be back up again next week on the usual date, and it will be as though this text conversation had never happened.

Still. The whole thing made me nervous.

Like am I gonna have to start thinking about filling the propane cannisters, mowing the acreage, making sure Black Chicken is fed & watered? That's a lot more work than I signed up for.

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He does have a really dreadful relationship with the Spawn, but then I had a dreadful relationship with RTT when he was Gus's age, and today, we are besties, so go figure.

As a parent of teenage children, consistency is the most important thing—consistency & a commitment to far-sightedness, goals in the long term: Gus is incapable of seeing three years ahead because Gus is 15, and three years is one-fifth of his lifespan—figuratively the equivalent of 15 years to me. I can't see 15 years ahead!

Also, Icky has this ridiculous notion that being a parent is kinda like being a super-friend. If I didn't dislike him, I'd almost be touched by the way he begs the Spawn to let him play video games with him—video games? you think that's what fathers do? are you mad?

And then there are all those mornings when Gus refuses to budge from his bed, literally pulls the covers up over his head, while Icky screams, "This is ridiculous! Get the fuck up! You have to go to school!"

Only Gus doesn't get up.

One imagines him beneath his covers with a small, sly grin on his face. Punishing Daddy by punishing himself.

A toxic situation.

But honestly?

The Patrizia-torium (which I like quite well) is sheltered from the rest of the house, the kiskas are happy, and it's none of my business.

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Anyway, I did get over to the Community Garden on Thursday and weeded happily for an hour before it began to pour. (Not in the forecast.) Got the strawberry patch weeded. Will go back tomorrow to do the rest of the weeding and put in lettuce & beans.

This year, I have the space to attempt germinating my own seedlings, so I have various heirloom tomato varieties percolating in tiny peat pots.

Today, I am running the bounce house at Vision of Wallkill's Duck Derby.

The fun part of the day, the actual race of the rubber duckies down the Wallkill River, has been canceled due to safety issues: The Wallkill River is at flood stage.

And I can't say I am looking forward to chaperoning a bunch of brutish Trumpie tadpoles—'cause that's what the citizenry of Wallkill hamlet are, brutish Trumpies.

But I committed to it and must follow through.

Sigh...

Protective mimicry, I remind myself.
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There are logistical issues with the garden. Since I now live so far away from it, I have to plan going there—which has been difficult given the rainy weather of the last week or so.

We've had a break from the rain the last couple of days. But weather forecasters, modern-day variants on those white-bearded prophets of yore, say it's gonna start raining again tonight.

Which leaves me with a dilemma.

I've been trying to be very accountable with the various revenue-generating activities—not that I expect them to keep me safe from the various horrible geopolitical events that are taking place around the world or even from the pitchfork-wielding, torch-waving villagers in the small Trumpy town where I now live. But, you know. Money! The one true cure for FOMO.

So, I have been assigning myself a word quota.

And I don't leave the house until I complete that word quota.

Which doesn't usually take place until the early afternoon.

I'd like to drive straight over to the garden right this very moment! The sun is out; the freshly mowed grass and newly leafed trees are such a radiant green promise.

But I'm forcing myself not to.

And that is frustrating.

Of course, I can always traipse off to the garden when I stop working.

But by then I may not feel like it. The trip won't be spontaneous.. It will be just another pro forma thing on the pro forma list of things I must do because—Well. I just have to.

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I've been in a mood.

It's nothing a little distraction wouldn't cure, but the world seems too scary right now to look away for a single moment.

When you're a passenger on an airplane, you gotta keep staring out that window—or the plane's gonna crash.

Magic!

It's the only way the truly powerless have to control things.
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Found this as I was cleaning the nettles and the Creeping Charlie out of the strawberry patch.

I would have noticed it if it had been there last year. So, it wasn't.

I am always on the lookout for messages from the Universe or any of its signatories. I spend most of my time in subways & waiting rooms willing my mind to be still, the better to pick up telepathic PingZ! from fellow passengers. Alas, I never have.

I have no idea why the Universe wanted to tell me yesterday, A great pilot can change sail even when his canvas is rent.

But apparently, it did. So, it must mean something, right?

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Other than that, I had a pleasant enough, though extremely solitary, day yesterday.

Combination of sunshine & small amounts of cannabis seems to be keeping me emotionally balanced.

Trump's popularity is plummeting. If you look at the Daily Mail headlines as indicators—even I have given up reading the damn thing—they have backed down from All MAGALand! All the Time! and are now back to pedo step-Moms, Ozempic, Blake Lively (that cannot be her real name, can it?) and all the rest of their regular programming the way God intended.

I still feel as though I'm missing a critical piece of information, though.
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Spending time in the garden was lovely. Stayed three hours. Got maybe half the 12' X 12' plot weeded? Will return to complete the task later this week. I may not even need to beg Claude to rototill this year: The earth is quite pliable.

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Spring is more advanced in Dutchess County than it is in Ulster. Maple trees all sporting that tender green blur that, upon close examination, is not leaves at all but tiny tree flowers, lethal to anyone prone to allergies. The magnolias & weeping cherries are all in bloom, and the daffodils & forsythia seem to have staying power this year, so the roadsides are a riot of yellow & pink & spring green.

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I drove by L's house where I used to live. It's shabbier than ever though the daffodils I planted are blooming in great clumps.

I was pretty happy for most of the time I lived at L's house, and I wondered—not for the first time—if L would have lost her mind if she hadn't had that knee replacement.

I warned her!

Good little libertarian that I am, I have a pretty hard & fast rule about never offering personal opinions about courses of action when it's clear the other person is bound & determined to see them through—except when I feel an emotional bond with the other person and the course of action runs straight through a disaster zone.

Surgery under general anesthetic is risk enough on its own for anyone over 80, but added to that, I'd seen L's chest X-rays! I knew how badly her lungs were compromised.

So over lunch at one of the Culinary's extravagant restaurants, I told Linda my concerns.

It was one of the few occasions I can remember that I ever saw Linda get angry.

I can't remember exactly what she said—I wrote about it at the time, so it's here somewhere—but the gist was that I was not the boss of her, so why didn't I just STFU.

I felt so badly about the encounter that I ended up paying for the lunch—$100 plus.

But shortly after the knee replacement, Linda began manifesting signs of dementia. I think she may have stroked out on the table. Or thrown a mini-clot. Or something.

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Linda was never someone with whom I was going to forge a deep connection, but I was fond of her and grateful to her.

I haven't seen her since I moved out, but Belinda, whose grim sense of duty compels her to take Linda out every couple of weeks, tells me she's not doing well. She doesn't appear to bathe, smells faintly of urine. She prattles thoughtlessly. She eats half a dozen rolls at a sitting.

Neither one of her children like her, so they're not looking out for her.

Mrs. Neighbor Ed drops by for tea and takes her out shopping once a week, but Mrs. Neighbor Ed, though a kind person, has definite boundaries.

The house keeps getting shabbier and shabbier.

Sad.

And maybe I'm in complete denial, maybe this is just what happens to people when they get old, but I can't help thinking, It didn't have to be this way...

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