5 things:
1. There are bargains! The MARC train to Baltimore costs $3.50 one way for a person of my age!!
2. But remember that old joke about the price of food on the train? "Cheese sandwich, $2.00--with cheese, $4.00"? There are NO cheese sandwiches in the train station at Baltimore. But there are
egg salad sandwiches for $7.59! Ha. I brought my own cheese sandwich. With age comes wisdom.
3. Apparently I can hear better this year than I did last year. Tell that to my nearest and dearest.
4. 60 years ago today--September 8, 1954--I entered the convent.
5. I'm not there any more, and I am thanking God, or whomever, for favors received.
Why would you go to Baltimore, home of many, many convents, etceteras? Sorry I did not know you were making the trip 'cause would have suggested visit to American Visionary Museum--think you'd be fascinated.
ReplyDeleteMust be wonderful to hear better...my own seems to diminish. Will we hear more about your travels?
(chuckling)...I have to check in at the Listening Center at Johns Hopkins at least once a year, so they can test my CI--see how it's working, etc. They also use this opportunity to train new audiologists in the process. This is another aspect of aging: sharing my disability experiences with students. Happens at GWMFA (where my primary care doctor hangs out), but at JHLC, the professional stays right in the room at the same time, and I can give some input. At GWMFA, i get the med student first, then she (almost always she) leaves and reports to the PA/doc, who then comes in the room and announces their treatment decisions. Kind of like that game we used to play as kids--you whisper a word or sentence to one kid, who then whispers it to another, and so on down the line until the last kid has to say what the word/sentence is. rarely exactly the same thing.
ReplyDeleteYes, I do hear "better" than I did the last time you and I convened. Much better. As long as my batteries are fresh, and I made sure they were. They also can test the part inside my head, too, not just the processor. All was working fine. Fingers crossed. Sorry to hear your own hearing is diminished. Many TV programs are captioned now. You might enjoy turning the captioning on to see if that helps.
re Bal'mer and convents--I think I did see a nun there either in Penn Station or on the MARC train. She had a kind of habit on--black and white, though not the old-fashioned 3-yards-of-serge kind. Was tempted to ask her if she was a Dominican, but she was busy reading and taking notes. In my day you could tell which community a religious person belonged to by the color and cut of their habit. Only ones now who are readily identifiable are the Franciscan monks (from up near Catholic U). Same brown habit, same sandals. Same funny haircut, too (the tonsure).
Travels? CC wants me to go up to NYC on the 21st to join the rally for Climate Change (something like that), but it seems like a lot of fuel to be burning. we'll see
take care, Naomi! Love hearing from you!!
p.s. I believe I have been to the Visionary Museum, but it's been a while. Maybe it'd be fun to revisit now that I know how inexpensive the trip can be.
ReplyDeleteNow too far away to be tempted by 350.org climate event on Sept. 21. I'd be glad to name you (how to do this?) as our stand-in from the northwest. You probably have heard from others how scary it was at the last very big anti-war one february 15, 2003 when the police trapped us on second avenue.
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