- OKCupid asks for 6 things “I can’t live without”. Lots of people put “oxygen” being funny, but it’s true; as well as hydrogen and carbon and potassium and on and on through how many elements? Are there any elements in the universe that I can live without? Can I live without the 31 grams of astatine in Earth? So let’s put the whole periodic table on here.
- Cashmere
- Lucia Berlin, whose collection of short stories “A Manual for Cleaning Women” I’m so enjoying.
- Mom’s compulsive letter writing and journaling which created the archive of documentation from the darkest days of my youth; including written evidence (of what?) in the form of an 8th Step list on which neither Thomas nor I appeared.
- MRI. Dad had one today. I had one in 2004 to rule out a brain tumor.
Many thanks,
Me