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Tina W. – Part 1 – Memoir Continued

Wet Meditation – Tai Chi Form – Snake Creeps Down –LE – Ink (Micron Pens) on paper 8×8″

Tina W. – Part 1

Back at Kinetico, after my split with Anne, one of my co-workers, an older engineer, Sue V., knowing of my recent separation from my wife, wanted to hook me up with her best friend, Tina W. I told her that I wasn’t interested and thought that was the end of it. But she kept trying to talk me into it. I later found out that she’d been trying to talk her friend into it, too. She was also not interested.

After a while, when I had forgotten about it, Sue asked me to play a practical joke on a friend. It seemed harmless enough, and Sue and I were friends, at least as much as I had any other friends there. She told me a few things about her friend, that she was a poet, loved wolves, and had an old cat that had recently died. Sue had read some of my poetry and thought her friend would be interested in exchanging poems through email. But Sue didn’t want me to mention her or identify myself or how I got her friend’s email address, nor did she mention that this was the same friend that she was trying to fix me up with all along.

To be Continued

–LE

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Liam Eddy

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10 responses to “Tina W. – Part 1 – Memoir Continued”

  1. Sneaky Sue….😉
    I like your sketch, the fluidity of the form in the rain. Even when I was a runner, I don’t think I could have contorted my body into that shape. About 15 or 20 years ago, I took up yoga, and herniated a disk. 🙄

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    • Thanks, Kate; I’m pleased you like it. I lucked out in that drawing. Wasn’t confident I’d be able to pull it off with ink on paper…

      Sorry for your unfortunate yoga experience. Physical contortions have never been much of a problem for me since I’ve been doing it along with other martial arts for most of my life… I hope you haven’t had many problems with your disks since…; -)

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      • No, probably just a weak back. I was a runner in my youth, later a jogger, then a walker. It’s only been about the last 15 years or so I’ve worked on strengthening my back muscles.

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      • I agree. I see so many people a lot younger than I am, that are not just a little overweight, but are morbidly obese. They sit in front of the tv and eat. I don’t want to go out like that.

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      • Agreed… that’s why, ultimately, I switched to a vegan diet (I had been vegetarian for the previous 45 years) and continue to work out… the gym a couple of times a week and riding the Tucson bike loop several times a week as well. When I came to Tucson, I weighed in around 180lbs. In the last couple of years, I’ve dropped to 153 (my BMI is 23), and I’ve leveled off there for the last year…; -)

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      • To be fair, I’ve been in a farily constant ‘working out’ lifestyle pretty much since the age of 14…; -) And I know that most people’s lives didn’t/wouldn’t accomodate my kind of lifestyle. That probably contributed to many of the relationship problems that plagued my life… It was certainly the excuse most often given…; -)

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