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Missing > Job Losses

Patrick | 14 Feb 2021
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This is the second half of a file of Patrick’s called FSU plus.rtf. The first half describes my mom, her pregnancy with me, and the prospects for their future together. I’ll share that another time, painful though it is. “Can you walk?  Can you talk?  You’re hired!”  Dan tilted his head back, eyes shut against  (more)

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Please Help One of Patrick’s Favorite Restaurants

JP | 11 Feb 2021
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Basmati Restaurant Selling Antiques First off, here’s a link to a story. If you can possibly help, please do so. I’ll explain in a moment. https://www.majorcadailybulletin.com/news/local/2021/02/09/78901/mallorca-coronavirus-basmati-restaurant.html One of Patrick’s favorite restaurants was Basmati in Palma. Every time I visited we made a point of visiting at least once and sometimes more often. When other relatives  (more)

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The Whispers Between the Shouts

JP | 9 Feb 2021
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Here’s a conversation with Patrick about learning how to really listen to music. It was recorded in his living room on 19 November 2011, near 11 PM. PM: ….. was a great moment for me ……… a few years back, I went to, to hear Rostropovich conducting. I think it’s called the Leningrad Symphony of  (more)

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Letter to Pat and Stephanie

JP | 9 Dec 2020
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I found this old XyWrite file on my computer recently, tucked away in a backup folder for one computer inside the backup of another computer inside the backup of my current computer. It was dated 9 Dec 1988, exactly 32 years ago. Wow. Dear Pat and Stephanie, Things, as always, have been hectic here. My  (more)

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Dear Stephanie

JP | 7 Nov 2020
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I found several versions of this letter from December 2006 to March 2010, but the differences were mostly cosmetic. This is pasted from the 2010 version. Around St. Patrick´s day 1976, I left Tampa with my five year old daughter.  We returned to Mallorca where she was born. Dear Stephanie.  You always believed in something  (more)

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Letter to Patrick

JP | 3 Nov 2020
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Here’s another letter to Patrick I found in the backup (Planck) of a backup (Fourier) of a backup (GWG6) folder, originally a XyWrite file dated 20 February 1988. It includes a challenge to help me find a job in Spain, and to develop an app to transmit music between computers via phone connections. (Of course,  (more)

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Postcard to Pat and Stephanie

JP | 1 Nov 2020
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I can’t find the original postcard, but here are the contents of a XyWrite file I just stumbled across that was used to print it. It was dated 8 August 1988. Thought you’d enjoy my first record. [A 45 RPM disc with two songs about racing.] The racetrack has been my surrogate girlfriend these past  (more)

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About a Drawing

JP | 29 Sep 2020
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| Category: Recordings

Conversation about a drawing, and Norman.

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The Best Part about Patrick’s Visit

JP | 15 Sep 2020
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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)

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Law Enforcement

JP | 2 Sep 2020
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| Category: Recordings

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)

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An August Dream

JP | 8 Aug 2020
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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.

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Line Drawings

JP | 12 Jul 2020
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Another recording from October 2014. Patrick talks about line drawings and a children’s book he’d written, drawn, and lost. JPI’m the son of Patrick of Meadows.

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On Poetry and Manuscripts

JP | 11 Jul 2020
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| Category: Patrick's Family, Recordings

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. JPI’m the son of Patrick of Meadows.

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Eye Patch

JP | 7 Jul 2020
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| Category: Autobiographical, Patrick's Family, Recordings

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. JPI’m the son of Patrick of Meadows.

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It’s What’s Inside and What Happens Between You

JP | 4 Jul 2020
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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. JPI’m the son of Patrick of Meadows.

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