Malaga 1990?
Here’s a poem marked “Malaga 1990?” so I’m arbitrarily setting the date to that year. PatrickPatrick Meadows 1934 – 2017. patrick-meadows.com
Patrick Meadows and Stephanie Shepard Memorial Site
Here’s a poem marked “Malaga 1990?” so I’m arbitrarily setting the date to that year. PatrickPatrick Meadows 1934 – 2017. patrick-meadows.com
Here’s a letter from 12 December 1987 (has it really been 30 years?!) that I found in my files, in which Patrick proposes software that recognizes a tune and tells you the name and title. Today there’s a program called Shazam that does exactly that, albeit with a better interface than Patrick proposed. PatrickPatrick Meadows […]
Letter from Patrick of 21 March 1986, about five weeks before I went to Europe for the first time. I believe he refers to my story The Eyes Have It, which was never published. PatrickPatrick Meadows 1934 – 2017. patrick-meadows.com
Here was a 1984 note from Pat and Stephanie to a friend (Bob? Fred?) in honor of their 60th birthday. I especially like the detail work in the flame. For the Record.an eagle,The heart;eyesof a hawk.what if we could reelcelluloid from the skull?.seeking magicin the role of sceptics(like us).the only alternative:believe everything.(seeing is notnecessarily believing;seeing […]
Poem displayed as a screen shot to preserve text formatting. PatrickPatrick Meadows 1934 – 2017. patrick-meadows.com
He bought a fresh loafThe baker swathed it in a square of paperpinched at the cornersgood to carry under the armIn the street he smiledfrom the depths of his seventy-four yearsand praised the arrival of spring. A new note, this, since a stroke of mortality (is it already?) four years ago he has touched gingerly […]
Not much here, but it’s pretty…. my 1984 birthday card from Patrick. PatrickPatrick Meadows 1934 – 2017. patrick-meadows.com
Letter from Patrick to Fred on 7 Nov 1982, in which he talks about the work on the house that Stephanie and he bought, and poetry, and his book on Dr. Weightnovel (never completed, still being developed when he died 35 years later), and the acquisition of a hernia in July 1982. PatrickPatrick Meadows 1934 […]
The church bell speaks twice. The cat seems to sense, and the dog, something in the wind. Yes. A flash out to sea clouds white as day. The trees will whisper, and the grass, in the night while we sleep. Dawn brings rain clattering into our dreams, but then, a song! Nightingale, we both say […]
The persimmon yet burns on the branch beyond our window, twisting in the sun. Soon the wind will plump it down. Your flesh glows in the post noon light while the sea wind clamors at our door. (Time collapses; it is spring.) You also are rooted in earth, out of which you soar. […]
Here’s a letter from Patrick to JP dated 25 March 1980, but not actually sent until 3 November 1980. PatrickPatrick Meadows 1934 – 2017. patrick-meadows.com
Over forty years ago, Patrick undertook the idea of conflating Stephanie’s story with that of Norman’s, as documented on this page titled A Romeo and Juliet Story. You’ve read elsewhere how Stephanie was forced to give up her only child (Tim), while Norman had no desire to be involved with his daughter (Bonnie). It appears […]
Attached, as an image file, is a letter to Fred dated 18 March 1979 in which Patrick describes a little bit about the activities at the Deia house. PatrickPatrick Meadows 1934 – 2017. patrick-meadows.com
Here’s a two page letter from 17 February 1979 that Patrick sent to Gretchen, myself, and another sister, in which he describes the work that he and Stephanie have been putting into their house, and the music, and the writing. He also adds observations about each of us and how he longs for us to […]
Here’s a letter from Patrick, dated Christmas 1977 (40 years ago today), in which he describes a novel that didn’t sell and progress on another. He also declared that he loved the new space western Star Wars, which I didn’t appreciate (and still don’t, except for the technical prettiness). PatrickPatrick Meadows 1934 – 2017. patrick-meadows.com