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Category: Musings

Ghost

JP | 1 Mar 2020
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| Category: Musings, Patrick's Family

Observations about beliefs in an afterlife, woven around a recent viewing of the movie Ghost and the tropes it employed.

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Lunch at Home

JP | 28 Feb 2020
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| Category: Musings, Patrick's Family

I am sitting at home with a wee bit of scotch in my glass and pork chops in front of me. Even though I’m drinking Glenfiddich instead of Jameson’s, Patrick would appreciate my beverage choice and the fact that I cooked a meal for myself for a change. Before my first sip I raised my  (more)

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Ringed by Fire and Smoke

JP | 6 Dec 2017
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| Category: Musings, Patrick's Family

Huge flames flicker along the ridges to the north and west of my house. In truth they are probably 10 miles away, but they are bright enough and broad enough, and the winds fierce enough, that I ponder my evacuation plan should the need arise. I look closely at the distant fires, then climb into  (more)

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Our Lives, Like Birds

JP | 13 Sep 2017
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| Category: Musings, Patrick's Family, Recordings

Our lives are like birds. Sometimes they fly together, sometimes one is above the other, or below, but ultimately every bird falls from the sky. And yet, we somehow still see them, always flying, even after they disappear. When they don’t return, we can only hope that they’ve just flown away. (inspired by a conversation  (more)

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No Brainer

Patrick | 20 Jan 2017
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| Category: Musings

We were eating in a bar after a concert, and joined at table a young man named Toby. About halfway through the meal he leaned forward over his plate and pretended to vomit everything he had put in his mouth. Disgusting. I was in those days quick to temper, and I got up from my  (more)

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Public Lament (Coffin Parade)

Patrick | 9 Aug 2016
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| Category: Musings

A short piece by Patrick dated 9 Aug 2016, though the file would only show the date of the last edit. The file name said “coffin parade” but the title in the file is “Public Lament.” We were sitting in the bar having a cafè con leche. It was mid-morning. The local workmen had hours  (more)

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Swimming Through the Tsunami of Tourists

Patrick | 11 Aug 2015
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| Category: Musings

Walking the the village every day, swimming through the tsunami of tourists, I often see local residents floating among the foreigners. I don’t know their names, though we occasionally might nod to each other as we make eye contact. There is the one I call PatrickPatrick Meadows 1934 – 2017. patrick-meadows.com

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Heading to Coos Bay, Oregon

Patrick |
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| Category: Letters, Musings

Patrick and Lee traveled to Oregon after high school. Here’s a story fragment about the experience. He references the Seventh Day Adventist religious group, but he’s actually describing the Jehovah’s Witnesses, a different Christian sect. The fragment is from a collection called You Never Know that Patrick sent me on 11 Aug ’15. South of  (more)

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The Same Dream Came to Me

Patrick |
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| Category: Musings

For more years than I ever thought to count, the same dream came to me.  I am no more sure when first I dreamt the dream than I can ascertain when the dream ceased. I know it was still coming to me after I met Stephanie, often enough that I mentioned it to her more  (more)

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patrick (a Poem by Stephanie)

Stephanie |
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| Category: Musings, Patrick, Poetry, Stephanie

It seems appropriate to post this on Valentine’s Day, that Hallmark card celebration that can nonetheless be used to convey real love. I’ll post the back story that goes with it when I get a chance. i carry your heart with me (i carry it in my heart) i am never without it (anywhere i  (more)

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Doing It Again, Jumping to the Past

Patrick |
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Here I am doing it again, jumping to the past. In 1956 Lois was with her clique and claque in the Coffee Shoppe of the music department every day. Me too, with John Patrick on my lap. PatrickPatrick Meadows 1934 – 2017. patrick-meadows.com

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As I Approach Eighty

Patrick | 1 Jul 2014
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| Category: Letters, Musings

I approach eighty living on this beautiful island, and probably will finish up here. Over half my life I have been living here in paradise. To get here and stay here I sinned a lot, but it has been worth it. Unless, of course, when I quit this world I have to pay for those  (more)

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The Gospel According to Sr. Patrick

Patrick | 19 Feb 2014
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| Category: Musings

In Spain everyone is born with two last names. The first is your fathers’ (first) last name, and the second is your mother’s (first) last name. So if I were born in Spain of Spanish parents, my name would be James Patrick Meadows Toombs. But in fact I was born in West Virginia and my  (more)

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With Whatever Love for Life that Is Left to Me, I Will Seek Love

Patrick | 19 Apr 2006
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| Category: Letters, Musings

Found in my e-mail, this was part of a collection of things Patrick sent me called “You Never Know.” This segment is dated 19 April 2006. My first impulse when Stephanie died was to dump everything – after 29 years together, the accumulated baggage was overwhelming. Not only physical objects – the house was full  (more)

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When You’re Sitting Down, with Coffee & Cigarette, Anything Seems Possible

Fred | 1 Dec 2005
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| Category: Letters, Musings

Here’s a letter from Fred to Patrick in which he remembers some of their earlier adventures together. I found it in a Word document dated 1 Dec ‘5, but I don’t know when it was actually written. My guess is that it’s from the early 2000’s, after they had established an e-mail connection, since I  (more)

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