posthumous

ok, so quite enjoyed reading art buchwald's posthumous column in the washington post today...a piece he wrote a year ago....seems he enjoyed a bonus year after agreeing to hospice care......happily, the 'last piece' was more of a celebration rather than a morose bit about dying......i have read much more about this fellow since his passing...about how he lived in paris for much of his professional career...ya gotta love a guy who figured out how to make a living in paris.....this evening my daughter asked me to supply our flight number, so that her birth mother could start pondering the meaning of the sequence- as if the flight number can be parsed as to good or bad/safe or sorry.....i wasn't biting on such a request.....should that be my time to go...better it be on my way to paris than to the grocery store....i'd rather any such disaster happen on my way home...so i could have enjoyed that final round of museums, favorite lunch spots, and spent a few quiet moments with my thoughts in ste. chapelle.......it has been my custom to write goodbye letters to my closest kin before i travel across large bodies of water...there is quite a stack in amongst my books....i will add to that collection before taking off in late march...just to be on the safe side......and while this won't be the same as a last blog....it will suffice to those who mean the most to me.....