Tag: commune
group name: pastafarians
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August 29, 2007 06:51 AM EDT --
RG called me from Friedrichshof, again, this morning. There's a six hour difference so his day is winding down as mine begins.
"To what do I owe the honor of this call?" I ask, wondering . . .
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March 14, 2007 07:44 AM EDT --
After watching the Van Gogh film (my disappointment at having my character land on the cutting room floor was fading), the 3 of us, Theo, the researcher Kristine and I go down to the Friedrichshof (FH) . . .
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October 12, 2007 07:22 AM EDT --
Dinner is over, An entire day, gone. I'm standing still while everything - the rest of the world - rushes by. As I write this a group of kids, Flo, Robert, Zocki, Luzi and Yvonne are gathered around . . .
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January 09, 2007 07:32 AM EST --
While I'm sitting in the breakfast room, writing this, Harti and someone else comes in to take away the big Sony color TV and VCR. They are taking it to the next little town, near Friedrichshof (FH), . . .
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March 25, 2007 12:23 PM EDT --
RG was waiting for me at the airport. He said that was one more person than who came to meet him on his return from Friedrichshof. While I was gone he had gone down to NYC to visit his old flame Linda, . . .
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March 10, 2007 08:20 AM EST --
Sunday dawns warm and windy. It's been a dry September all throughout Europe. Not a single day of rain on Friedrichshof the entire time I've been here. Tomorrow I'll be at the airport in Vienna . . .
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March 16, 2007 09:07 AM EDT --
Otto rubs my shoulders as he passes behind me. I turn and tell him I leave tomorrow too! (we've all just said goodby to Kristine). "No, No!" he says in mock despair. Then he asks all the . . .
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October 24, 2007 08:14 AM EDT --
I'm sitting at the small, round, wooden table in the guest breakfast room where RG and I used to eat and talk. I'm writing as I wait for lunch at noon. My daughter comes in to sit with me. Her . . .
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October 31, 2007 07:44 AM EDT --
After lunch I go down to the guest room to write. My daughter comes too. We are only there a few minutes when the restorer from Vienna (he's actually German but speaks perfect English with an Austrian . . .
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July 15, 2008 07:33 AM EDT --
While waiting in the posh lobby of the office building at 99 Bedford Street in downtown Boston to be called in for my first round job interview with the head hunters for the Brockton Museum Directorship, . . .
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October 08, 2007 07:47 AM EDT --
Six hours and twenty five minutes to Frankfurt, less than an hour between flights, then on to Vienna.
Sydney, Lotti, RG, my daughter and me were all squished into Sydney's tiny car, add the luggage . . .
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October 10, 2007 08:33 AM EDT --
We're sitting in the office on Friedrichshof (FH), it's 5:45 pm. I'm trying to put a call through to RG to let him know we are OK, but there is some problem making the connection. We, Anna . . .
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February 01, 2007 08:12 AM EST --
One of the great things about my Friedrichshof experience was the opportunity to try new things. The only barrier to getting recognized in any field here is your own internal fear, anxiety and inhibition. . . .
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February 25, 2007 09:30 AM EST --
As a kid I was always threatened if I talked about certain things "outside the family". It was as though our family was somehow the embodiment of a totemic structure that was as real and fixed . . .
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February 26, 2007 07:53 AM EST --
At the time I thought my idea about writing a grant proposal to the Getty Foundation to fund an exhibition of Freidrichshof's (FH) art collection in the USA was useful for my career advancement as . . .
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March 24, 2007 09:36 AM EDT --
My last night on Friedrichshof was sleepless. I got up feeling odd, on the edge of self doubt and paranoia. Maybe I'm nuts. Maybe I'm doing this as the final kiss-off to my mother and father - . . .
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July 06, 2008 11:10 AM EDT --
Daylight savings time kicked in this Sunday morning. It's now 3:45 pm. The day is whipping by. I woke up in Gloucester with Bill. There's a thick fog shrouding the house. Abbi and Teresa . . .
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November 07, 2007 07:04 AM EST --
This morning I'm told that Teresa, Kalypso's mother, will have to go to Boston. Her baby, Kalypso, was premature, born in the 26th week. Although now 5 months old, it is about . . .
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November 23, 2007 10:24 AM EST --
Up at the crack of 10 a.m. (I'd set my alarm for 7) I attempted to go running again. The wind was pretty strong. At least it had stopped snowing. My daughter had gone off to the flea market. I debated . . .
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December 10, 2007 07:05 AM EST --
Going anywhere, when one lives in or visits (as we were) a commune, even just a trip to the city for shopping, requires advance planning. Transportation is coordinated through a main travel office to make . . .
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