Today I’m gorging on loot from my 91st Birthday last week. Chocolate cake, chocolate ice cream, dark chocolate almonds, milk chocolate walnuts and a box of Peterbrooke Chocolates … along with a book, Go Set a Watchman, by Harper Lee. Parts I & II were very pleasant and exposed again the enormous talent of the author [who is 2 years younger than I]. I expect Part III will begin the saga to match the trial and after effects in To Kill a Mockingbird.
Up until today I have managed to reduce my weight by 17 lbs in the 2 months that I have been off of prednisone, so my nemesis, chocolate, will make this crusade a little more difficult. But … walking without carrying 2 ten pound bags of flour is noticeably easier and thereby provides incentive to continue the quest for weight loss.
My deafness deepens. I can hear noise better with my 2 hearing aids, but the strange changes in the way my ears [and brain] analyze sound have resulted in a condition now where all the notes in the octave below Middle C sound pretty much the same … thus, harmony is gone! Harmony … the noblest part of music!
