About a Drawing
JP | 29 Sep 2020
Conversation about a drawing, and Norman.
The Best Part about Patrick’s Visit
JP | 15 Sep 2020
Here’s a little recording I just stumbled upon. Patrick, Christine, and I were enjoying breakfast at the Busy Bee Diner in Ventura so there are occasional interruptions from our server in the audio. It was 8 October 2014 and Patrick had just finished his visit with me. We were on our way to the Santa (more)
Law Enforcement
JP | 2 Sep 2020
This was a conversation between Patrick, Ivonne, and JP. It started with information about learning Spanish (there’s a separate recording that covers that in great detail), and then building a home, and from there to types of police officers in Spain and the U.S. There are places where Ivonne spoke in Spanish too quickly for (more)
1978 Passport
JP | 31 Aug 2020
Here are pictures of Patrick’s 1978 passport pages. He was traveling quite a bit with Stephanie getting their concert series up and running but I don’t see a lot of stamps.
Wedding Photos
JP | 30 Aug 2020
I’ve been busy working on a web site for my adopted parents and haven’t had a chance to do much here on Patrick-Meadows.com. My brother Randy has scanned thousands of pictures for the new site from their dozens of photo albums. He also just scanned the attached photos from 20 years ago. Stephanie had been (more)
An August Dream
JP | 8 Aug 2020
This is the transcription of a dream I recorded on the 40th anniversary of Hiroshima. In it, Patrick was living next door to me but didn’t say so.
Yes, Lots More Still to Come
JP | 1 Aug 2020
Dear visitors, I promise to continue adding content as time allows. I’ve been sidetracked with some web site work and software development projects for clients. I just finished another enhancement for a Calibration Log tool used by a manufacturing company. That program is used to make sure their equipment is maintained and certified to current (more)
1972 Passport
JP | 16 Jul 2020
Here are the entries in Patrick’s 1972 passport.
Line Drawings
JP | 12 Jul 2020
Another recording from October 2014. Patrick talks about line drawings and a children’s book he’d written, drawn, and lost.
On Poetry and Manuscripts
JP | 11 Jul 2020
Several years before Patrick died he began sending me manuscripts and documents, boxes of them. During a 2014 visit we discussed these a bit, then shifted gears slightly to my own collection. This is that short recording.
Father’s Day 2020
JP | 9 Jul 2020
With so many different memories and images in my head I thought about writing something on Father’s Day, but instead I spent the time with family and watched little Max and his father Aaron together, glad to be part of that family, a designated grandfather through my connection with Jessica.
Eye Patch
JP | 7 Jul 2020
In this transcription of a recording, Patrick talked about cars and jobs in the late 1950s. The recording is from 19 November 2011 when I visited him in Spain.
It’s What’s Inside and What Happens Between You
JP | 4 Jul 2020
Patrick begins this 2011 recording with thoughts of how to tell his life story and finishes with the way his mom encountered her husband’s mistress. A maroon 1946 Ford is also mentioned.
Pension Reiss
Patrick | 2 Jul 2020
A couple of loose pages I found that describes Patrick and Mari’s arrival in Germany. This would have probably been 1962 or ’63 I think. I found this in the folder titled Bohemians of the Tramatura although the story has nothing to do with Spain.
1961 Passport
JP | 1 Jul 2020
Here are pages from Patrick’s first passport, issued in 1961. Although some of the stamps are blurry or faded over time, you can still get a sense of his early travels.