Living in the mountains of North Carolina, you get used to the Appalachian stories...most of which may sound pretty incredible, but have basis in facts.
A friend gave me a library book and said I should read it. It sat around a few days while I finished the one I was reading. (In my past I could read two or more books at a time...sigh, those days are gone!). My friend told me a bit of the plot, about 2 doctors in Fletcher, (another small town next to Asheville NC) and that it was non-fiction!
I was in conversation with a friend by texts the day I started reading it, so I told her about the doctor who had written it about another doctor of the same name, who killed his father...right here in the Asheville area (Fletcher to be exact.)
She wanted to know when it happened, since she vaguely remembered something on the news. I finally got to the part where 2008 newspaper publications were mentioned.
My friend who recommended it would ask me how far I was into it, whenever I saw her. When I was 1/3 through she said, just wait, it gets better. When I was 1/2 through she said, keep on reading!
Here's the flyleaf description.
Of course that's hard to read, so I hope you can enlarge it.
I binge read the last 1/3, dealing with having all kinds of efforts to help the sick doctor who was behind bars...would he be pardoned? Would he be taken to a hospital for his Huntington's disease?
And how about the problems that the author found regarding mental health treatment in the legal system...almost non-existent in prisons? I know my friend that recommended the book had been impacted by that almost as much as the other parts of this story.
Anyway, I finished the book, and the man was still in prison! The book's copyright was 2022, and has no conclusion. Now it's Aug. 2022. I wondered if anything in the news would cover this. So a DuckDuckGo search I went...and finally found this dated Jan. 18, 2022. I had to subscribe to the Asheville Citizen-Times for 6 months for $1, or I couldn't even read it. OK. We shall see if this daily paper is still interesting still in 6 months.
As depicted on Facebook...
Anders made sketches based on the original Willendorf Statue, making his initial sketch 8,000 times bigger. (She ended up being even larger!)
Anders Løberg began on April 14, 2021. She was constructed with steel rods on a sturdy foundation. Anders added to Her for months, carrying cement on foot from the store down the street on his trailer.
She is over 6ft tall and 4ft wide, weighing in at more than 2 tons. She is made primarily of cement made from sea shells, but also many upcycled materials, including broken pieces of my Grandmother's China, oyster shells, steel, chicken fence, steel wire, old tools, birds net, rope and more!) Her breasts are mixed with milk; Her womb and yoni are mixed with menstrual blood; her belly is filled with pasta, red wine and other goodies. Her head is filled with early proof copies of Girl God Books.
Sepia Saturday is a collection of blogs published with a prompt, an old photo that's posted for us to consider and perhaps be inspired to share some of our old photos .Incidentally others post about their ancestry research, which is definitely in the same historic category, or postcards saved with either a theme or notes on the back relating to someone's actual travels, (see, it's a wonderful coming together of blogs!)
Alas, and so forth, I seldom have my own photos to post, but have collected some from my favorite groups who post such photos on FB.
Of course you could also see them there...but I do like to present them as a group, no matter how they relate, or don't, to each other. (Yay split infinitives.)
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This is the marina, and somewhere over to the left are pontoon boats that take tours around the lake. I might do that, if the price is right.
Entrance gate to Chimney Rock
I may have showed you this little beach last week, on Lake Lure.
Sharing with Skywatch Friday!
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My salad for lunch today.
I love having the banana bites available when the seasoned dressing is too hot. Whew, I could see the cayenne floating in it. I will try using one of my own like blue cheese, or ranch maybe next time. I ususally get 2 of these big salads out of one order at the caterer called "That Salad."
I try to help this business stay going...stopping for my fav take-out personal pan mushroom pizza and a side salad, hold the cukes, with blue cheese dressing. (Note, I save the crusts and dip them in the dressing!
Today's quote:
(On the day I posted this, I was mentally fogged, so it got posted in the wrong month)
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Some things that happened last week.
I had a crown re-glued onto the tooth where it had popped off. Don't ask what I was chewing, but I do avoid sticky caramel filled things these days. The dental assistant came at me with the pre-novocain swab first and I said oh no, I'm not having a filling! She looked at a chart which hadn't been updated apparently. Whew...got out of there without any pain.
I love my dentist...and my insurance pays most of the cost (through Medicare) and it's at a sliding scale clinic anyway. I have learned to have the first appointment in the day so I don't really have to wait as long! But waking up an hour earlier than usual, I did miss breakfast.
A Conversation: Climate Disruption, Human Displacement,
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