06-FEB-A-3
VISIT WITH
HARKENS, GRAND ROUNDS AND CONFERENCES
AT
INCLUDING
BERKELY TO THE
FOR VERDI’S
LAST OPERA, “FALSTAFF”
February
2--4, 2006
I
am enroute home after what seems to be a long trip in multiple venues, this one
concluding the second one in
On
Thursday, we made it in from
As always with the Harkens, it was a three ring circus of fun, with early rising followed by late evenings, first in the San Francisco opera environment and then in the Berkeley college environment –a liberal college town of weird and wonderful folk, with an eccentric female architect Julie Morgan having made a barn-like theater where we went to see Verdi’s last opera—Falstaff. It is a ribald comedy with a cast of performers who have a close contact with the audience. I had a chance to commune with Buffy, the yellow lab who has a daily exercise pattern that is going on now as the Harkens have just dropped me off in the SFO airport to go on to Pacifica to throw the sticks into the Pacific for Buffy to retrieve.
PROPERTY
MANAGEMENT IN
As I sat here in the airport, I got a worried call from Jim, my mailman who was worried that I was overdue by two days for my return—so Derwood is being looked after well by his visits.
I think it would be considerably more difficult to be away and to extended such away visits not only with the overdue items in the ELDP, but especially if I were to have livestock such as a dog named George or a horse named Leon, each of which seem to be real live examples hovering in time and pace over a project Virginia has envisioned as a property five miles from DesMoines and twelve miles from Simpson which has a log cabin to live in, a studio in which to give voice lessons, a residence for a live-in teacher of beginning riding, and indoor riding rink, and pasturage for the ability she might have to both keep her own jumper Porter, and a “hunt horse” (Leon, for example) and an assortment of dogs (such as the aforementioned Katrina refugee George, as well as Corgi Cherry.) She is now visiting her friends the Shurtses in Florida as well as brother Rob, while making phone calls to try to arrange some kind of financing to relieve her of the heavy expense of the Horse Habit which she finds unsustainable as a Simpson school teacher and she would like to work out her ambivalence about a two-state relationship as well as a way to relieve herself of the cost of a balloon mortgage due in August, and acquire a twice deductible asset as opposed to her after-tax income draining horse-housing at the Maiffat Barn. So, she has suggested these thoughts as she is trying to work out a way to keep herself independent despite the ongoing horse expenses she might be able to transmute to deductible expenses in a neutral or income-producing property. She had tried to work out with the Dean some indication of her future at Simpson but since he is a lame duck, her conference with him on m y birthday, January 19, did not resolve any of here questions on her Simpson future, so she is trying now to balance out here outgo expenses. We have had a few phone calls on this matter as she is thinking of how she can manage her own future in a changing environment.
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