Luis Alaya

 Luis Alaya has passed away at age 90. I think it may have been from covid. I saw it on the news. He was in the news recently on his birthday.  He had been cutting hair in Fort Worth for seventy-five years.  He often cut mine.  Pastor Doug Estes introduced me to Luis years ago when Doug and I lived at the Grove Home. Doug is in his late 90's now. Luis' shop was on North Main.  He trained at the old barber college across the street from the courthouse. In the 1960's a judge might send you there to get your long hair cut instead of sending you to jail. Luis was a great and noble human being. I will miss seeing him.

Mr. Moates' Art

Mr. Moates' was my Aunt Dorothea's employer. He owned a small chain of department stores.  She worked in his advertising department.  Gary Moates', a local lawyer and political figure, may be his son. I am listening to W. A. Mozart's 40th Symphony, a favorite. My aunt was Dodo George Nesbitt.

I remember Betty White

 in Life with Elizabeth, a fifteen minutes show on early TV

Heinz Hall

 Listening to the Pittsburg Symphony.  Was once in Pittsburg myself with a traveling Buddhist mission.  Visited the Heinz Chapel at Pitt U. Seems like there was a statue of Stephen Foster. Remember the stained glass windows. Thought of the 57 varieties of Christianity. 

The House Mouse

 Saw the mouse this evening, a somewhat prolonged encounter.  He was out and about in the kitchen when I switched on the light.  Longer than I remembered, he scurried near the sink, ran past the refrigerator, and then disappeared behind the stove. Must have been scared half to death. I would have given him a bite of cheese.  I just finished a bowl of sour cream and honey.  No word from Russell today. Hope he's ok. GAG

Conspiracy

 While it may not have been explicit voter fraud, (and that is still a possibility), there certainly was a conspiracy of media giants, educational authorities, and entertainment moguls to undermine the Trump presidency from the beginning, solely because he represents the great American conservative tradition stretching back at least as far as Goldwater and Reagan, espousing conservative Christian values.

Russell Butler

Russell Butler will not make up his bed, or take out the trash.  Is a walking tower of trash.  Trash literally falls off of him. 

Watching Wombat

How to Attract the Wombat was a humor book by H. Allen Smith given to me by Greg Curtis from Larry McMurtry's Houston bookstore.  My first collection was called Watching Wombat.  The Smith volume resides in Maine, I believe.

73 Million

73 Million Americans voted for Donald Trump. They are not nescasarahlea going anywhere, but to the next election ...sirrah, que, sirraquill

 Anna Moffo in Traviata, VHS, 1968

Heard her sing this at Lewisohn Stedeum in 1965, thanks to John Epstein, Ivan Davis, James Mathis and John Ardoin, I think.  A great group for a novice like me.

Donald Trump

Trump was a great President.

 May we live to run another day.

Peter J. Stine

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