I created this post at intervals throughout the day.
I sit here shirtless as I
write this post. It’s almost 96° outside and over 80° inside. This morning I
got quite ill from the heat. More about that later in this post.
Today is the 12th
day of June—a day that for three fourths of my life has been a high point of
every year. It was on this date in 1971 that my oldest son, Nicholas Lawrence
Temple III, was born in Würtzburg ,
Germany
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| Marienburg fortress/castle, Wurtzberg, Germany with Main River in foreground |
It was on this date in
1975 that my youngest son, Robert Lawrence Temple II, was born in Louisville , Kentucky
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| Louisville night skyline from the Indiana shore of the Ohio River |
I still celebrate this
day, in a way, although not with the grandness that I once did, since now I am
estranged—not by my desire—from both of my sons. Yesterday I created these
graphic images that I posted on Facebook to celebrate Nick and Rob’s birthday:
I don’t expect a response.
Recently I have been
reading books written by two giants of train-of-thought literature, HenryMiller and Jack Kerouac. I wonder if reading their words has in any way
influenced my own writing—probably not since I am so attuned to punctuation
that I have don’t think I could create a run on sentence even if I tried. I
have discovered that there is quite a similarity between their styles perhaps
because both Miller’s Tropic of Capricorn
and Kerouac’s road novels are autobiographical nature, something I hope to
address in a future blog post.
This morning things began
extremely well. I awakened at my normal 3 AM and decided to get some chores
done. Part of that was to drive all of the garbage down to the dempsty
dumpster so that I could dispose of it before it got too hot. It really didn’t
work out very well because it was already 2 o’clock when I started out. By the
time I was at the dumpster and throwing the garbage bags into it the heat had
me nauseated and gasping for breath. I ended up vomiting on myself on one of
the new shirts that my mother sent me as a Father’s Day present since we both
realize I shall receive no acknowledgment of Father’s Day from my sons.
At the moment any writing is difficult for me with this cat not only in my face but also trying to lick clean. Little girl has been quite demanding recently—no matter where I am seems that she wants to be also. Maybe that has something to do with my discovering that her belly is quite hard and her nipples swollen so maybe the Kitty Kids population may explode soon!
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| One of the 4 shirts Mom sent me for Father's Day |
I hope that you all had a
good June 12 –i.e., yesterday.
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