lester

connected meanderings
2005-10-15 12:50:12 (UTC)

relaxed times in interviews this week.

Wednesday: AG, a graduate student who engaged herself in
my lecture of the previous week. My ideas juxtaposed with
hers for what she might do after graduation with a Ph.D.
We had good discussion, relaxed and planful. Will meet
again next week.

Thursday: provided SK, a fabric-collage artist, with
materials that stem from me and my family. SHe is funded
to do Dane County related fabric collages for the
sesquitennial. She had connected with the boxes that I did
last January in an exhibit at a Madison gallery. I visited
her on Open Studios and she agreed to do a piece for the
EPI. I had picked up. It's now mounted. I met her daughter
who wandered through.

Friday: Lunch with RQ, my friend who encourages me to
write my memoir. We ate at what turns out to be a
Palestinian-Lebanese restaurant in which a major figure is
a poet (MA) who write in Arabic, once a Professor of
Arabic in Algeria. He's writing for EPI but I'm working on
transmuting his work into English. My first attempt earned
me only a "C" - I joked with him on how I aspire to do
better. He was pleased that both of us had visited his
restaurant. He provided us with coffee "on the house" and
noted that he didn't bring his own cup because it's
Ramadan and showed us the schedule he and fellow Muslims
follow for prayer and eating.

Friday pm: Met with KD, a woman colleague who had
responded strongly to an EPI related project involving
peace and an avid apologiest for Jews reacting to a piece
from a Jordanian Muslim woman cartoonist who had lamented
the Israeli wall. (He was very accepting of my revision of
his work that transmuted it from persistent war to peace-
solution-focused). KD admired the work and mentioned her
illness. I asked if a visit would be ok and it was. I met
her husband whom I had already know from a seminar that
we'd both attended in times past but not recently. She and
I met in her lovely backyard gazebo in perfect weather and
had a long lovely meeting. Her illness was infectious and
mostly over. Interestingly I had construed that she had a
bad cardiac problem. Learned that indeed she has some
cardiac irregularities now mostly controlled.




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