Finished Chinese Food Outdoors while sitting in a lawn chair

 Thanks Ellen for the Chinese food and the quinoa for protein.

Cough cough, choke choke.

I refuse to die from choking. 

So I spat out the indigestible stuff. 

Wouldn't a tall glass of lemonade be delicious today?

I have the ultimate in lemon squeezers. 

New philosophy for me. I answer MOST OF my phone calls.

NATE called. He wanted to inform me if I am a candidate to purchase alternate energy source.

He was so impressed by my credit ratings he wanted to share it with his boss.

Listen, Nate, I said, you do this on your own time. I have more important things to do.

What I will do - and this is between you and me, dear reader - is READ outside. Too nice a day to stay indoors.

 

Walk early as somer is a comin' on

 Hi, it's me, Ruth Z Deming. Just got home from walking around the block. 

We all have the same idea I said to some walkers and dog walkers. 

GO EARLY.

Watched a cement truck pour concrete into a wheel barrow and deliver it to the back yard of the house where a black jockey is on the front lawn.

Racist? You decide. 

Last night I sat out on the front lawn, here on Cowbell Road, and chatted with Bill and Stacey Adams. And then Mike Kallum. I asked if they thought it was okay if I left the lawn chairs, donated to us by Mike Kramer and family, right where they were.

Yes, was the resounding answer.

Here is the dog - Buddy? - and asked "Madina" - finally asked her name - if she was from Ukraine. No, she said. Things are terrible there, I said, after watching the PBS Nightly News and reading the JUNE ATLANTIC, where Anne Applebaum was the reporter.

I ate a huge American-Jewish-IF Singer breakfast, then washed it down with Dawn detergent, I mean, hot Folger's flavorless coffee.

All I wanted to do was walk in the sunshine down my street.

Wore a long yellow shift, you might call it, and a Chico's jacket. Removed the jacket and lamented I was not wearing sunscreen.

Also thought of a new resolve for the remaining days of my life.

One is Do not return to the dentist. 

Do you think that was on Stephen Weinstein's mind as he was dying of cancer? 

Doubtful. He was probly thinking of the new Letter to the Editor he could write and make a difference in the world. 

THE VENNERI GROUP  Arguably these are the best dentists I have ever seen.

The old man passed. Doreen and Joe flank him. 

While making my breakfast I asked ALEXA to play jazz, which she did.

Tentatively, my next book will be called LIVING WELL WITH DEMENTIA. 

First though gonna sit outside - or inside - and read FOUR BOOKS - to fill my mind with new thoughts, strange thoughts even - as this has been a habit with me since I was a young girl.

Listen to Somer is a comin in.

Click here. 

Long distance haulers, like Ellen's Saint Anthony. 

Film noir this morning... a great one called OUT OF THE PAST. 

At the end they all get what's coming to them.

BANG BANG BANG

When they topple from the car in slo-mo, I think it sticks in the mind of Arthur Penn, who did the love of violence film, BONNIE AND CLYDE.

Two absolute creeps.

Photo of retiring Sheryl Sandberg

This is Sheryl Sandberg who is retiring from Meta. READ MORE as I tell you why I took this foto. 

For more than a decade, Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg began and ended each week by meeting together.

The symbolism of the ritual was clear. It was intended to signal that Mr. Zuckerberg, the chief executive of Meta, and Ms. Sandberg, the chief operating officer, were in lock step with each other at the top of the company.

But when Ms. Sandberg, 52 - born 1969 - said on Wednesday that she would step down from Meta this fall, she crystallized an unspoken change at the tech giant: Mr. Zuckerberg no longer has any clear No. 2.

While Mr. Zuckerberg named Javier Olivan, a longtime executive, to take over Ms. Sandberg’s job when she departs, the importance of the chief operating officer role has diminished at Meta, which was formerly known as Facebook. Mr. Zuckerberg, 38, instead has four executives who have equally large responsibilities and who answer to and run major decisions by him.

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I simply loved the woman's picture. Is she the one who fell off a treadmill?

NO. 

Sandberg married Brian Kraff in 1993 and divorced a year later.^[64] In 2004, she married Dave Goldberg, then an executive with Yahoo! and later CEO of SurveyMonkey.^[1][46][65] The couple has a son and a daughter.^[66] Sandberg and Goldberg frequently discussed being in a shared earning/shared parenting marriage.^[67] Sandberg also raised the issue of single parenting conflicting strongly with professional and economic development in America.^[68]

On May 1, 2015, Dave Goldberg died unexpectedly, and his death was originally reported as resulting from sustaining a head trauma falling from a treadmill, while the couple was vacationing in Mexico.^[69][70] 

Sandberg has subsequently said that her husband's cause of death was due to an arrhythmia, and not due to falling from a treadmill.^[71]

As my 10 readers know, I lost my balance when I stepped outside my door earlier today, and flopped down on the hard cement.

I elevated my foot, toes, and butt on an ice pack and took a couple of generic Tylenol, but the pain is pretty powerful. Thank you Sister Ellen for ministering to me.

AND now I shall lie down in bed, comforted by both Tylenol AND three books I am reading.

Suddenly the books got really good!

Shit happens! 

This book by E Lockhart is an award winner and mighty strange. One line haunts me.

Granddad lost his mind.

Don't you dare say that about me!!!!

Obit for Simon Baniewicz

 BANIEWICZ

SIMON R., on Feb. 4, 2008, of Bensalem, PA. Formerly of Warrington, PA. Devoted father of Paul Baniewicz ( Kathleen Rexrode), Maria E. Yavornitzki (Brian), and Brian Baniewicz (Amy). Dear brother of Vincent Baniewicz, Anthony Baniewicz, Stella Quedenfeld, and Dorothy Waskiewicz. 

Loving grandfather of Maura, Natalie and Patrick. Relatives and friends are invited to attend his Funeral on Saturday from 9:00 A.M. to10:30 A.M. at THE JOSEPH A. FLUEHR III FUNERAL HOME, 800 Newtown-Richboro Rd. (at Holland Rd.), Richboro, PA and to his Funeral Mass 11:00 A.M. at St. Bede the Venerable Church, Holland, PA. Interment will be private. In lieu of flowers, contributions in his memory may be made to Lung Cancer Alliance, P.O. Box 630972, Baltimore, MD 21263.

SIMON was a kind and loving man. He would sit at the head of our table when visiting Mom at her home in Huntingdon Valley, PA.

We would ply him with questions. 

We dearly miss him.

His former wife died from too much iron in her blood.

Good Lord! Pray for us! 

Summer is the time for planting and figuring out what to do with pests like rabbits - Think again about your morning coffee

 

Yes, Virginia, I DO have boxwood in my garden.

Am trying to remember where.

Mine are much higher. And they have a delicious smell, like fresh brewed coffee.

More from the NY Times - still as good as ever. 

But where is Jane Brody? Is that her name? 

That morning cup of coffee may be linked to a lower risk of dying, researchers from a study published Monday in The Annals of Internal Medicine concluded. Those who drank 1.5 to 3.5 cups of coffee per day, even with a teaspoon of sugar, were up to 30 percent less likely to die during the study period than those who didn’t drink coffee. Those who drank unsweetened coffee were 16 to 21 percent less likely to die during the study period, with those drinking about three cups per day having the lowest risk of death when compared with noncoffee drinkers.

Researchers analyzed coffee consumption data collected from the U.K. Biobank, a large medical database with health information from people across Britain. They analyzed demographic, lifestyle and dietary information collected from more than 170,000 people between the ages of 37 and 73 over a median follow-up period of seven years. The mortality risk remained lower for people who drank both decaffeinated and caffeinated coffee. The data was inconclusive for those who drank coffee with artificial sweeteners.

“It’s huge. There are very few things that reduce your mortality by 30 percent,” said Dr. Christina Wee, an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and a deputy editor of the scientific journal where the study was published. Dr. Wee edited the study and published a corresponding editorial in the same journal.

There are, however, major caveats to interpreting this research, she added. This is an observational study, which means the data cannot conclusively prove that coffee itself lowers the risk of dying; there may be other lifestyle factors contributing to that lower mortality risk among people who drink coffee, like a healthy diet or a consistent exercise routine.

Manuel! Please bring me a cuppa java pronto.

Gracios!

My former BF Simon Baniewicz, who passed away, would drink his coffee in a mug that said DAD.

Good for you Shimon. 

Death, Life and Resurrection

 Earlier today, before I twisted my ankle, I was walking for the second time, around the block. Met a Black man and I said, I noticed you had a family member who graduated from Fairfield University.

Click here. 

Just realized it is a Jesuit college. 

I learned about the Jesuits when I worked at Maryknoll Missioners in Ossining, NY.

One of my fave jobs ever.

I was married to Mike Deming at the time. He had a degree in City Planning. I remember calling up his boss from a payphone you could dial from your car and asking, Will he be able to get a job when he graduates.

Yes, was the answer. And he did very well.

Millard Grove “Mike” Deming

BIRTH	6 Sep 1946 Caracas, Capital District, Venezuela
DEATH	29 Mar 2009 (aged 62) Edmond, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, USA
BURIAL	Hillcrest Memorial Park Ardmore, Carter County, Oklahoma, USA
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Frontline about Policing the Police - Reading Outside - Elegy for Cousin Iris Goodman

 Dear FRONTLINE community,

George Floyd’s murder two years ago shocked the world. But reporters at the Star Tribune in Minneapolis, Minnesota, had been covering issues of race and policing in their area for years — and they knew that, in the words of reporter Libor Jany, Floyd’s death was part of “a long history of heavy-handed policing and police violence.”

 

Police on Trial, tonight’s new documentary with the Star Tribune, was filmed over two years in Minneapolis, following Floyd’s murder. It was written, produced and directed by Mike Shum (American Voices: A Nation in Turmoil), produced by Marcia Robiou (Whose Vote Counts) and reported by Robiou along with a team of current and former Star Tribune journalists, including Andy Mannix, Liz Navratil, Liz Sawyer, Chao Xiong and Jany, who also narrates the documentary. Police on Trial was produced in association with the Center for Asian American Media and is supported by The WNET Group’s Exploring Hate initiative.

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NO, I said to myself. I will NOT watch this.

Much of the doc was about the trial. 

I did watch, though, and it was tough to watch. A relative of George Floyd - SAY HIS NAME - said at the Trial, Look at how polite he was, he respects the police, as Derek Chauvin, was choking him to death.

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It is a lovely morning here in Willow Grove PA. Was anxious to start reading. After a breakfast of 2 eggs, slimy mushrooms, chopped red peppers, I prepared to sit out back on the deck. Too many bugs were attacking me so I sat out on Scott's bench. He had no idea I was there.

But now Scott has visited me. He too watched the documentary. All they needed to do was FIRE the bad cops and these horrific situations would not have occurred.

When the verdict against Chauvin was read, people in the street began cheering.

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I may have said this before, but a couple years ago, there was some sort of brush fire out back, and a cop told me to move.

I did not.

Then he raised his voice - I was not used to this - and I moved ASAP.

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Every day I ask sister Ellen about our "pets." This refers to the ANTS that have invaded our house.

Both of us agreed they were not too bad this morning. We use an "ant hotel" type of killer. 

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I walked around the block early. Saw a topless man with tattoos all over his body. It was Bob, who had adopted a dog named LULU and was now training her.

Wasn't there a cartoon about Lulu I asked. We also agreed that it is Weds, but JUNE 1.

Started reading a new book last night.

I HAVE NO SECRETS by Penny Joelson. It's about disabled children who have been adopted by a man and a woman. Quite a load of characters. One knows who "the murderer" is who stabbed someone to death, but is unable to talk. 

Lots of tantrum throwing.

I am anxious to get back to reading this, not to mention AFTER DARK by Haruki Murakami. 

BTW, my sugar was fine when I woke up. 120.

I CANNOT WAIT TO DRIVE MY CAR.

Scott charged it yesterday and I have an appt at REMS AUTO for inspection. 

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What shall I do for the rest of my life? I was born in December 1945 - did great work as a psychotherapist - but now, what is next?

Thanks Marie on Ball Road for these nasturtian seeds. 

HAVE I PUBLISHED MY ELEGY FOR COUSIN IRIS GOODMAN?

They were good people, my cousins,

Everyone loved Iris, Goodman, a woman

not expected to die.

We ask ourselves, Where do you go when you die?

Does the Lord await you

Enfold you in his golden arms

Same ones that met you at the Well

A millennium ago, or two.

Perhaps all we will get is a piece of

buttered matzoh with salt

do not forget the salt

I fear we will get nothing

nothing at all when we die.

Tell us, Judy Diaz, are you swinging on a star

while I look after your porcelain pot in my front yard

the remains of the dead.

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I have a great story for us.

I am barefoot and one of my feet gets tangled up very badly in a cord on my carpet.

I roll over and over, the foot is killing me, and finally I come to a stop.

Do I say anything? Do I curse? It's all over now. I didn't even tell Ellen.

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Our lawn mower man is now cutting the lawn. Ellen went to the bank to give him cash. 

His name is Bryan. They all have names. He has an Italian name.

I wanna look up a guy now who used to be in New Directions. Mucho problems. One piece of advice I gave him was Stay in touch with your son!

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Yes he is still around. So is his former wife, who joined a "cult." They used to live in a gorgeous house in Jenkintown and many of us used to eat there.