The standards of death taken down by surprise
I saw the neurosurgeon this afternoon and no longer need to stick my head annually in a magnetic noise machine. This is great news.
The wood of what remains of the sugar maple smells cold and sweet. I am told it may turn into planks. Behind it may be seen Rosabella the late-blooming dogwood and the as yet nameless infant elm.

P.S. I don't know what happened with the international mail, but my late-breaking parental Christmas present of Fiona Moore's The Black Archive #43: The Robots of Death (2020) just arrived along with a beautiful art-enclosing solstice card from
radiantfracture, so I don't begrudge it in the slightest.
The wood of what remains of the sugar maple smells cold and sweet. I am told it may turn into planks. Behind it may be seen Rosabella the late-blooming dogwood and the as yet nameless infant elm.

P.S. I don't know what happened with the international mail, but my late-breaking parental Christmas present of Fiona Moore's The Black Archive #43: The Robots of Death (2020) just arrived along with a beautiful art-enclosing solstice card from

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The picture is pretty. I love the smell of fresh-cut wood.
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Very good news about the MRI. I take it things are looking stable in a good way!
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Rosabella sounds delightful - dogwoods are so pretty!
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It really is! I'm glad.
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So much yay! *^^*
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I salute your fallen tree, which did good service while it lived.
That's a lovely mildish winter photo.
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I hope your tree will become a bookcase.
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And, talking of good things, you'll have to let me know how the RoD book is!
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(Also that the maple can be used for something better than firewood.)
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Also: hurrah no more weirdly bangy medical thing.
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