Tremendous sadness at the state of the world right now – lawless rebels shooting innocent people out of the sky, and, more than ever, the insoluble and tragic dilemma that is the Middle East. I’ve been reading everything I can, but an article by Gabor Maté in the Star today speaks with great eloquence and truth about it. Highly recommended.
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And another doc that I tried to stop watching but couldn’t, about the 50th anniversary celebrations of the Queen’s reign, with fascinating glimpses of her at rest and play, joking and funny. So often she’s stomping about grim-faced, clutching her purse, but she’s a canny old bird. An anachronism, like her relatives the royals of the world, whom she entertained royally at the time, but quite magnificent too. Fascinating.
This afternoon, finalized my will with my dear friend Mary, who’s also my lawyer. It’s surreal but necessary. “If you die and your daughter dies …” she says, speaking of what would happen, what would be in trust for Eli administered by his uncle Sam. Has to be addressed, even if we hope the document lies in the file drawer for many years to come. But who knows?
