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It’s green and it feels like an oasis, a dreamscape, a place where my imagination can drift off without hitting anything harmful.  Monstera’s Books is a 10-minute walk from our house.  If I get hungry, I can walk next door and get 2 for 1 tacos at Torreador, which has been around since 1985.

Today is World Down Syndrome Day.  This observance seeks to raise awareness, promote inclusion and advocate for individuals with Down syndrome.  The young dark-haired woman in the video above is Rachel Mast.  She transports patients at the health system where I work.

Danny Cox passed away earlier this month on March 7.  He had a magnetic presence, and I was honored to have met him.  I saw him perform as the Ghost of Christmas Present in ‘A Christmas Carol’ and I remember the nights I saw him play w/Terry Bohner at a local Mexican cantina.  I remember asking him how many more dates he was playing there, and he said, “we’ll be here until the snow flies.”  I’m glad I can still listen to interviews he gave on KCUR and find videos on YouTube, like this one from Folk Alliance International.  I will miss him.

Can you believe it?  Today is the first day of Spring!  We knew it was coming, we set our clocks ahead one hour, I said “goodbye” to February, the days are already getting longer– but now it’s official!  The sun is shining, flowers are blooming, rabbits are jumping, Don Ho is strumming, aliens are hovering, it’s a great day to be alive!

Dumont is a character in the 1982 movie, Tron.  He is a “guardian” who stores and protects information.  He can swivel, talk, and look around, but he’s stuck in one spot for most of the movie.  It’s a light day at work, and I haven’t checked in many urology patients, but I have seen other patients out of the corner of my eye, swiveled, and answered their questions:
“Where is Orthopedics?”
“Where is Rheumatology?”
“Where is Neurology?”
“Where is Pediatrics?”
“Where is Pulmonary?”
Some days it takes a lot of patience and tact to do this job.

It means “airplane” in Thailand.  The haunting reverberated guitar riffs sound like they’re coming from the other side of a sand dune, the bass is stalking its prey in the night, and the drums are syncopated rain drops.  I’m not sure exactly what I was originally trying to find online, but I wasn’t disappointed when I clicked on the psychedelic jams of Khruangbin.  The trio has been getting lost in songs since 2010.  If you’d like to join them in their audio wilderness you can go here.

Today is March 14. It is National Pi Day because 3.14 is a mathematical constant, it’s the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter, and it’s the one day in America that you will find free or discounted PIES!!!  Even if they are bite-sized.  The hospital started giving away pie bites at 11:00 today, and I was at the pie desk at 11:03 to get three bites for me, Deb (pictured above), and Ruby.

This Gumby has been riding with me since I got my driver’s license in 1982.  My best friend in high school brought him back from a trip he took to California.  I hung him (Gumby not Phil) on the rearview mirror of my first car, a 1974 Dodge Dart Swinger, and he’s either been on the mirror or in the glove compartment of every vehicle I’ve owned since then.  I captured this moment at Shawnee Mission Park after a dentist appointment.  It was still a little cool by the lake at noon, but me and Gumby drove around until it got up to the 70′s.

Mom, I think your chairs in the sunroom are a knock-off version of an insanely sturdy chair that was created in war time.  I recently discovered that in the 1940′s  Wilton C. Dinges designed an aluminum chair for the U.S. Navy that was “fireproof, waterproof, lightweight and strong enough to survive a torpedo blast.”  You can hear or read the story on 99% Invisible.

Who is Invader?  He is a creative force that mounts and displays a wide variety of 8-bit art all over the world.  The one pictured above literally orbits the world inside a satellite.  I can’t remember how I heard about Invader, but it had to be a podcast.  He has been leaving his pixelated presence since 1998.  Check his work out here.