Musing: fires, volcanos, axe handles & cycle of children
March 13, 2022: I went to sleep last night – first night without a fire in the stove for some […]
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Personal Musings
Diary: notes from the slow lane (curling, quiche, errands, taxes & flowers for Mom)
This disinter-mediated and somewhat timeshifting rundown of miscellaneous annotations and notes from the last week may not make sense entirely
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Diary: Leaving India ~ rapidly, in a fog (Nov. 2016)
Note: transcribed with light editing from my scribbled journal made in “real time” – as always more to say but
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Pink Phone Generational Flashbacks (& Forwards)
From the front porch of the kura studio with cicadas chirping on a sunny day in Okayama come riffs and
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Kinfolk + Pals
Cool Yule You Lovelies (with Mom)
Note: the plaid anorak, the sunglasses, the hair, the smile – love love love all of it Mom (so much
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Collections of Artifacts
Artifact: in Kura various (clock, axe, name plate) #daveo50
Various artifacts in situ, as seen in “Kura Grain Barn Art Studio / Music Lounge” (which needs a proper name).
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Parties + Events + Invites
Poster: Creepers and Chums (by Marty Kendall), 2017
Created by mixed media renegade artist Marty Kendall for memorial party/late wake for my Mom Lauralee and our pal Rod
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Kinfolk + Pals
Memento: Rod H. Ash, Grave + Poem, 2017
On my birthday August 16, 2017, I found myself in Provo, Utah sleeping in yet another bed in which someone
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Kinfolk + Pals, Scrapbooks + Journals
Memento: India scrapbook page & poem (RIP Mom), 2016
I was in India when my dear Mother died, I rushed back via various flights to join with my brothers
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Parties + Events + Invites
Invite / letter: “Far Far West Party” – 1994 / Logan, UT
Somehow, somewhere between my first couple trips to Japan (frankly it’s a little bit foggy after a plan to go
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Lists + Awards + Profiles
Media: Leprechaun (with tophat and bowtie) / Surrey, ca. 1976
“… David Olson , front, played a leprechaun.” Surrey (BC, Canada) Leader(?), circa 1977 Note: my dear Mom standing behind
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Youngtime Dossier
Evidence: Air Canada (with Mom, Bob, Dan) 1974
After being birthed in Saskatoon and flight to Calgary to Vancouver at 15 days, living in Eugene, Oregon for first
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Kinfolk + Pals
Mom: 3 Years Gone – “Tour de Ashes”
Hi Mom, Well today is 3 years gone and wow, so much has happened since the worst phone call ever
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Collections of Artifacts
Artifacts: woggles / variety (scouting)
When my brothers and i were wee lads, our beloved Mom was out cub scout leader. In Canadian (and international)
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Kinfolk + Pals
Mom’s Foreign Travel Treasures (Happy 75th Birthday)
Oh Mom, there are so many thing to tell you about this last year… the short is: for the first
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