October 24, 2021

Pat Verhulst is dead.

Maud comes to me when I sit at the downstairs desk and makes me hold her while she purrs and purrs. It is the most necessary thing that happens in my day. 

Gospel reading was of Bartemeas the blind beggar. Will asserted that he was the perfect disciple because he cried for help, “Son of David! Have mercy on me!” If that is the case, I too am a perfect disciple.  

Online fundraising gala for Red Hen. People talking about their books should be more fascinating to me than it is. I love hearing the STORY of their books, but that’s almost never what they choose to talk about. Maud appeared repeatedly in the ZOOM screen and aroused comment.