SHE’S NOT GOING TO THE INAUGURATION. You don’t have to watch.  

I TAKE WAY FEWER PHOTOS WITH MY PHONE since I quit posting things on Facebook. I used to feel a nudge to take a photo on the subway or on my walks so I could put the photo on Facebook. Nothing really wrong with that. But any phone or computer identity—this place too—is not real life. I’ve noticed that since I’m not online with Facebook which was the only place I went. No X or Instagram. I’m sure people who are on them, enjoy them. Younger people. My grandchildren. It’s not my world. I do miss the people I connected with on Facebook, if it’s really a connection. I liked seeing their names come up. I’ll say this though. Life is more real off the computer. I’m not a better person. Just freer somehow. Or more free. 

 DAVID LYNCH. R.I.P.

 

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I KNEW IT WAS TOO COLD OUT. I knew before I went to bed it was going to be 24 degrees between 8:00-9:00 when I hold the sign downtown in front of the Dept. of Education building. But my alarm was set for 6:23 and I got up and went out with the sign. I like the faces I see every weekday there. They like to see me there, I can tell. I’m part of the landscape. Many, maybe most, of the people who work in the building have never not had me out front. So, I went. I only stayed 30 minutes though. It was cold out. 

JUST CAME IN THE MAIL.

 

I WISH I SLEPT BETTER. You’d think there’d be a harmless pill. 

YESTERDAY WAS SUNDAY and Saturday it was before that. And I had to decide then if I’d go out to breakfast or not or maybe just lie in bed listening to C-SPAN or get up and do whatever. This morning was different. The phone alarm went off at 6:23 and I couldn’t go back to sleep. I had to get up. Check the phone, have a big glass of hot water, do TM meditation which I always do—for 40-some years. Then get ready to go out with the sign. Breakfast when I get back. I like a reason to get moving in the morning. 

I WENT OUT TO BREAKFAST EARLY this morning. Small oatmeal, scrambled eggs, potatoes, buttered English muffin, black coffee. Five blocks away. The place I always go. Not busy early Sunday morning. I even wondered if I’d go, but I did and you see people. On the cold walk home I noticed one apartment building after another. Old and new. People from everywhere. The young woman at the check out at the grocery store I went in heading home is from West Africa. Good luck, LA.