2010/08/08 Amsterdam
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The fanatic

Homecoming

My mother postponed her homecoming one day.
My sister had urged my mother not to leave the hospital on Shabbat, and finally my mother gave in and she told me sister: “Okay, I will leave on Sunday.” (One day I will write a book titled “My Sister, the Fanatic”.)
Yesterday was the first day in about three weeks that my mother didn’t ask me to buy her an ice cream after her salt free dinner.
I’m not sure if this is a good or a bad sign, but to be on the safe side I drank a few glasses of limoncello after my own dinner.


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It's good to hear that your mother is feeling better. Don't worry too much.
said Teresa I 08/08/2010 13:38 • x
Arnon
Isn't "frantic" a better word to describe your sister? So it stays in the family: a sister who's a frantic jew, a mother who is frantic about her son and a son who is a frantic writer.
Happy your mother is feeling better.
said Mieke Dutoit 08/08/2010 15:55 (Updated 16:00) • x
This is a great facts and fiction moment.
said david duinker 08/08/2010 19:29 • x
@Dens.
Again? Sure, why not. W'll talk about rocks and X-sexsuality and much more. Pick a place. Anywhere would suffice.
said david duinker 08/08/2010 20:27 • x
@Josiane
Slept like a baby. The surgery, apart from abnormal psychology and guru like Steiner, contains a four meter line childrens literature which dutifully was read to me aloud, one's I was neuter.

Some English like Waterbabies or Whinny the Poe was translated to me with majestic personal freedom, as I recall. (For I had to had a dutch upbringing).

Then my sleep was blessed without a single dream worthwhile, thinking Josiane at some time and here funny pursuit only.
I will start copy her comments handwritten on the left pages of some magazine or folder. That's a good idea.
said david duinker 08/08/2010 20:48 (Updated 20:52) • x
Biesheuvel
What would be your last thought? DUTOIT.
O god, have I payed all the bills, or like some marin: gosh, the ship is going down. What have I done?
said david duinker 08/08/2010 21:21 (Updated 21:23) • x
Apparently everybody is looking "zomergasten" .
said david duinker 08/08/2010 22:15 • x
David
As said,I 've done it. I was thinking of writing on the left side , but that seemed to far west for my right hand. So,the rightside it became . For the moment the other side is blank and is for the moving thoughts . No words,no pictures,no lines . Like the sky who moved from blue to dark grey in a few minutes. That just fits . It might change , we'll see. Don't get to many ideas now !
said josiane pollet 08/08/2010 23:34 • x
David
I have a feeling you should try meditation or tantric self-massage. I'm sure you would feel much better.
said Carlos Dee 09/08/2010 09:22 • x
oh my god! "zomergasten"! another thing i miss from the netherlands.... who are the guests, who the interviewer?
said beata b 09/08/2010 09:24 • x
Interminably boring
Personally I don't think there's much to miss in "zomergasten". It is one of those interminably boring Dutch programmes that goes on and on and on (and on again) about basically nothing at all. I suppose this is one of the meanings of that intranslatable Dutch word "gezellig".
said Carlos Dee 09/08/2010 09:39 • x
beata b
You can find a lot of info here:
http://weblogs.vpro.nl/zomergasten/zomergasten-2010/

Jelle Brandt Corstius is the host. He's quite good at it.
said Dens Powells 09/08/2010 20:26 (Updated 20:26) • x
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