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Category: Musings

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

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| 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 […]

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Simple Human Nature

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| Hard to Categorize, Musings, Patrick's Family

It must be human nature to question the future, to try to envision what the world would be like after we’re gone. We wonder how people would respond to our absence, curious as to what factors might affect their reactions. Would they grieve less for suicides than for those who fall in sporting accidents? Do […]

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Diary – Wiesbaden, 25 Aug 1962

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Patrick’s entry of 25 August 1962, in Wiesbaden, as found in pages 4 and 5 of his diary. Today we had lunch in a small café on Goethestrasse, our first wienerschnitzel and bratwurst.  Afterwards we climbed winding streets and the steps cutting between the streets above the city.  From there we finally got a good […]

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I Wonder What Images Will Remain

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Here are three pages from Patrick’s 1962 diary. I recently found that he’d typed it up, so the transcription is below the pictures. (Click on the images to enlarge them.) Diary (page 1) PatrickPatrick Meadows 1934 – 2017. patrick-meadows.com

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