~ Emil waits with the others for the bus ~

Monday 4 April 2005
9:46 a.m.

Emil woke me up before 6:30; been to Everett's school already, been downtown to the library, which won't open till 10. Could return a heavy bagful of books through the opening slot on the outside wall but couldn't pick up a book waiting there for me. To bide time I walked over to a hole-in-the-wall coffee shop across the street. Its warm ambience was pleasing, but the woman running it had the music so loud that when I stepped outside to plug the parking meter, I realized I didn't want to go back in. Came home and had scrambled eggs with salsa and toast instead.

Mom was here all day yesterday and Joan is staying with her this morning, or until Dad gets home from the golf course. He will talk to the family physician today and see what Doc thinks is going on. She is having some lucid thoughts, one of which was "Maybe my cancer is getting worse."

Tenderness and love rise up and out in waves.

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