Do I Need a Sweater?
A very short recording from 23 March 2017. Patrick: Let’s see, what do I need? … I need to know if I need a sweater. JP: We’re going to go out in search of a weather forecast.
Patrick Meadows and Stephanie Shepard Memorial Site
A very short recording from 23 March 2017. Patrick: Let’s see, what do I need? … I need to know if I need a sweater. JP: We’re going to go out in search of a weather forecast.
A couple of notes to a sister about Wednesday the 22nd of March. Not sure if you’re getting these email messages. Anyway here’s another from last night. Patrick has taken meds and gone to bed. He’s still in a lot of pain and has a hard time getting around tonight but he had another solid […]
E-mail sent to family on 21 March 2017. Today was a day with a lot of sleep for everyone but it didn’t start that way. On Monday afternoon the latest doctor told Patrick he shouldn’t go anywhere except bed, chair, or bathroom, for fear of causing more damage to his back.
E-mail to the States from JP on 20 March 2017. Today has been another series of small adventures. In the morning we went next door to the hospital for Patrick’s ‘rehabilitation’ session. During that hour, Ivonne and I went to pick up the car from the repair shop, where it received a new battery and […]
We begin by talking about Spanish driving lessons and move on to Photoshop from there.
Here’s a summary I wrote for family and friends on 19 March 2017. Today Patrick and I agreed to drive out to Carol’s place for lunch at the big estate she’s house-sitting. The trip started off badly with a dead car battery that delayed us at least an hour, which carved into Patrick’s “limited back […]
One of several conversations recorded our first full night together during my 2017 visit with Patrick. In this one he talked a bit more about teaching in Florida and the birth of the eldest girl. Patrick: As I recall… let’s see. I was teaching in, where is it? Not Vero Beach, but the next one […]
A recording in which Patrick describes two drawings and how he came to acquire one and create the other.
A short recording from 18 March 2017 while having dinner in Palma. There’s no meaningful content, but it’s nice to hear his voice.
Here’s a recording from 18 March 2017 with a lot of restaurant background noise in which we talk about a toy construction set I remembered as a child. We had spent hours assembling a massive structure but I tripped and fell into it one night while getting up to use the bathroom. JP: The construction […]
Transcript of a conversation with Patrick about teaching and being a night watchman. It was very noisy in the restaurant. Patrick: That was in Eau Gallie. [Florida] John: Eau Gallie? Ok. Patrick: Yeah, after that job, my mother in Winter Park had a neighbor who was the assistant principal of a Junior High school in […]
Here’s the transcription of a conversation with Patrick about my mom and some other family members, recorded on 18 March 2017 in a very noisy restaurant. If there’s interest, I’ll convert the audio file to YouTube so you can hear it. Patrick: One of the stories I haven’t really worked on, but I’ve got the title: […]
Transcriptions of a conversation about a painting, recorded exactly three years ago.
A recording in a noisy Palma restaurant, about a month before Patrick died, in which he talks about playing night clubs in Florida to help ends meet. PM: [I was in] Cocoa Beach playing night clubs with Paula, I forget her last name, a red-headed pianist, and …
This is a short, noisy recording from a mediocre Palma restaurant on the 18th of March 2017. Not very interesting, but still it’s nice to hear his voice.